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Also trades as: 0IZI.L (LSE) · $vol 0M

GWW NYSE

W.W. Grainger, Inc.
1W: +0.5% 1M: +6.9% 3M: -1.0% YTD: +34.0% 1Y: +39.0% 3Y: +97.9% 5Y: +221.4%
$1,342.72
-14.88 (-1.10%)
Pre-Market: $1321.53 (-21.19, -1.58%)
Weekly Expected Move ±2.3%
$1288 $1319 $1350 $1381 $1412
NYSE · Industrials · Industrial - Distribution · Tech Score Strong Buy · Power 73 · $63.2B mcap · 43M float · 0.658% daily turnover · Short 62% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: lower than 94% of companies Debt: 4.2% of company value Bonds: none of note held by US funds details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the safest four tenths, about 1 in 3,500 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $2.87 (down 99.8%), W.W. Grainger, Inc. would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $2.80B against a stock market value of $63.24B.
Distance to default 17.36 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-27, balance sheet 2026-06-30, debt counted $1.21B (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 23.4%; Altman Z'' 10.79. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
US fund filings (SEC N-PORT) show under $25M of this company's bonds, so there is no bond page. Its debt may be bank loans or privately placed. How these are computed.
#1 of 43
Industrial - Distribution
Industrials · Large Cap · 9 peers
Market Share
23.7%
Top 4 Concentration: 68.0%

Technical Signal Map

4 Bullish
1 Neutral
5 Bearish

Peer Comparison

Symbol Mkt Cap P/E ROE % ROIC % Net Mgn % Rev Grw % Piotroski Signal 1Y Ret %
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. $64B 34.2 47.9 31.9 11.4 7.8 7 BULLISH 39.0
FAST Fastenal Company $60B 41.6 35.3 32.3 16.3 13.5 6 BULLISH 22.9
FERG Ferguson plc $44B 21.9 33.9 18.1 7.6 3.7 6 BULLISH -7.9
BZLFF Bunzl plc $11B 16.1 18.3 11.9 3.6 1.6 7 BULLISH 7.5
WSO Watsco, Inc. $13B 26.5 16.1 18.2 7.0 0.3 4 NEUTRAL -13.9
RXLSF Rexel S.A. $12B 14.9 10.9 7.3 3.4 2.5 6 LEAN BEAR 12.2
WCC WESCO International, Inc. $16B 23.1 14.2 9.2 3.1 12.5 8 BEARISH 50.5
QXO QXO, Inc. $11B -12.8 -5.0 -1.4 -1.7 408.2 5 BEARISH -42.1
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. $12B 26.0 22.5 20.9 8.6 8.5 8 BEARISH 15.1
TMTNF Toromont Industries Ltd. $12B 31.8 16.0 18.0 7.8 8.9 8 BEARISH 26.0

Profile Radar

Valuation vs Profitability

Performance Comparison

Industry Market Share

GWW vs Benchmarks

ROIC
GWW
31.9
Industry
8.7
Gross Margin
GWW
39.5
Industry
25.9
Op Margin
GWW
16.1
Industry
5.7
Net Margin
GWW
11.4
Industry
3.6
Sector
10.1
Revenue Growth
GWW
7.8
Sector
5.4
P/E Ratio
GWW
34.2
Sector
29.8
ROE
GWW
47.9
Sector
19.2
Piotroski F
GWW
7.0
Sector
7.0

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