FASTENAL CO — Director's Dealing 2017

Oct 18, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: FASTENAL CO (FAST)
CIK: 0000815556
Period of Report: 2017-10-16

Reporting Person: Hein LeLand J (Senior Executive VP)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2017-10-16	Common Stock	M	10000	$27	Acquired	21290	Direct
2017-10-16	Common Stock	S	10000	$47.1350	Disposed	11290	Direct
2017-10-18	Common Stock	G	1032	—	Disposed	10258	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2017-10-16	Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$27	M	10000	Acquired	2018-05-31	Common Stock (10000)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	5163	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: The options will fully vest and become exercisable over a period of eight years, with 50% of the option vesting and becoming exercisable half way through the vesting period, and remainder vesting and becoming exercisable proportionally each year thereafter.

F2: Shares attributed to reporting person's account within issuer's 401(K) Plan as of October 17, 2017 and includes 89 shares added to this account since the reporting person's last report filed on January 5, 2017.

F3: Includes 300 shares held in a self directed IRA.