W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
At today's price, W.W. GRAINGER, INC. (GWW) is priced for +19.4% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Grainger runs two distribution models at once: a high-touch business that solves maintenance-and-repair problems for large industrial customers at a 42.6% gross margin, and an endless-assortment e-commerce arm, Zoro, that offers ⟦"millions of products"⟧ to smaller buyers, per the FY2025 10-K [Source: Grainger Q1 2026 results]. • The price is demanding: at roughly 25 times operating income it embeds about 19% annual operating-profit growth for five years, faster than this distributor has histor
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1,228 institutional managers reported holding GWW in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 72% of the company; the top 10 hold 39%. 111 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 1.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (5.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
GWW has cut its share count 9.4% over the past five years, spending $4.35B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 16 years running, raised 15 years straight; the current rate is $8.83 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.19B in dividends and $3.02B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at GWW over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
GWW's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -4.0% | -5.4% |
| 2023-10-27 | +4.3% | +17.3% |
| 2024-02-23 | +5.4% | -3.1% |
| 2024-04-26 | -3.0% | -2.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
GWW's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-08 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 5.07); 2026-02-03 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-12-12 (items 5.03); 2025-10-31 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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