Grainger/$GWW
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About Grainger
Founded in 1927, W.W. Grainger originally distributed various motors via a mail-order catalog. Over the course of the 20th century, the firm expanded into new industrial product categories and launched its first digital catalog in 1995. Today, the company organizes itself into two segments focused on different customer bases. Its larger segment, high-touch solutions, offers a vast array of maintenance, repair, and operations, or MRO, supplies and bespoke inventory management services to larger businesses. Its smaller segment, endless assortment, operates two online platforms, Zoro and MonotaRO, that offer comprehensive catalogs of MRO supplies to smaller businesses. Grainger has operations throughout the world but primarily generates sales within the US.
- Ticker
- $GWW
- Sector
- Industrials
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- 23,550
- Headquarters
- Lake Forest, United States
- Website
- www.grainger.com
Grainger Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$59B
31.74
$39.17
1.03
$9.50
0.80%
Price and volume
Market cap
$59B
Beta
1.03
52-week high
$1,419.91
52-week low
$906.52
Average daily volume
240K
Dividend rate
$9.50
Financial strength
Current ratio
2.805
Quick ratio
1.597
Long term debt to equity
0.603
Total debt to equity
0.62
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
22.73%
Interest coverage (TTM)
36.53%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
3,216
Gross margin (TTM)
39.40%
Net profit margin (TTM)
9.92%
Operating margin (TTM)
15.70%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
26.22%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$800,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
19.93%
Return on equity (TTM)
46.09%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
31.736
Price to revenue (TTM)
3.133
Price to book
12.97
Price to tangible book (TTM)
16.7
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
39.103
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
2.56%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
31.789
Dividend yield (TTM)
0.76%
Forward dividend yield
0.80%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
7.80%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
-0.61%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
5.57%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
6.46%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
4.13%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
13.55%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
9.71%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
6.96%
What the Analysts think about Grainger
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Grainger stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Grainger stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Grainger is seeing broad-based demand rather than just an accounting uplift: Q2 sales rose 10.3%, or 13.7% on a daily organic constant-currency basis, with volume and price contributing across both segments. Management raised 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $45.50–$47.25 and sales guidance to $19.4–$19.7 billion. (W.W. Grainger)
Endless Assortment provides a faster-growing digital leg: Q2 daily organic constant-currency sales rose 20.6%, with Zoro US up 18.4% and MonotaRO up 24%; segment operating margin reached 11.5%, up 160 basis points. Improved Zoro retention and enterprise growth at MonotaRO support the case for profitable digital scaling. (W.W. Grainger, The Motley Fool)
Cash generation and capital returns remain strong: Grainger produced $444 million of operating cash flow in Q2 and returned $341 million to shareholders. Full-year guidance calls for $2.25–$2.4 billion of operating cash flow and $975 million–$1.05 billion of share buybacks. (W.W. Grainger)
Headline margins are not fully repeatable: Q2 operating margin of 16.1% included a $43 million IEEPA tariff refund, while management expects Q3 margin to fall to the mid-15% range as that benefit rolls off. Lower-margin project mix, freight and private-label costs add pressure. (W.W. Grainger, The Motley Fool)
Growth may cool in a key digital business: MonotaRO benefited from customers pre-buying petroleum-related products before anticipated shortages, but management said this had fully subsided and its updated guidance assumes slower second-half growth. That creates a risk that recent Endless Assortment momentum overstates underlying demand. (The Motley Fool)
The shares leave little room for execution misses: Simply Wall St’s August valuation work put GWW at roughly 32.8 times earnings versus about 27 times for trade distributors and estimated the shares were 12.3% above its DCF value. A premium multiple makes any slowdown in demand or margin expansion more punishing. (Simply Wall St)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 25 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing Grainger
AllEURGBPUSD
Fund name | Fund size | $GWW weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector€2B7C | €673M | 1.03% |
iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector£IISU | £578M | 1.03% |
SPDR MSCI World Industrials€WIND | €217M | 0.57% |
iShares Edge MSCI USA Quality Factor£IUQF | £1.5B | 0.50% |
iShares MSCI USA SRI$SUAS | $3.4B | 0.39% |
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