FASTENAL CO — Director's Dealing 2019

May 3, 2019

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: FASTENAL CO (FAST)
CIK: 0000815556
Period of Report: 2019-05-03

Reporting Person: Soderberg John Lewis (Executive Vice President)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2019-05-03	Common Stock	M	30000	$56	Acquired	30000	Direct
2019-05-03	Common Stock	S	30000	$70.6231	Disposed	0	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2019-05-03	Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$56	M	30000	Disposed	2023-05-31	Common Stock (30000)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	5781	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: These options will fully vest and become exercisable over a period of five years, with 50% vesting and becoming exercisable halfway through the relevant vesting period and the remainder vesting and becoming exercisable incrementally (20%, 20% and 10%) each year thereafter.

F2: Shares attributed to reporting person's account within issuer's 401(K) Plan as of May 2, 2019 and includes 40 additional shares acquired since the reporting person's prior report filed on February 2, 2019.