W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW)

Name: W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW): results, filings decoded, planned insider sales, 13F holders, insiders, Congress and short interest
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W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW) reported revenue of $5.0 billion for Q2 FY2026, the quarter ended 30 June 2026, up 10.3% on the same quarter a year earlier. Net income was $570 million, up 18.3% on the year, and diluted earnings per share $12.01. The figures are the company's own, from the 10-Q it filed with the SEC on 4 August 2026.

Revenue$5.0 billionup 10.3%

Net income$570 millionup 18.3%

Diluted EPS$12.01

QuarterQ2 FY2026ended 30 June 2026

Ratios

From the filings

ROE45.3%

ROCE42.0%

Operating margin14.6%

Net margin9.9%

FCF margin8.0%

Interest covern/a

Debt to equity0.58

Cash conversion1.16

Share count, 1 year-1.5%

Sales CAGR, 3 years5.6%

Profit CAGR, 3 years3.3%

EPS, TTM$39.23

At the close of 21 September 2026

Price$1,277.79

Market cap$60.2 billion

Stock P/E32.57

Price to book14.57

EV / EBITDA20.15

Dividend yield0.7%

Market cap / sales3.19

52-week high$1,402.03

52-week low$918.18

Price, 1 year29.4%

Price CAGR, 3 years23.3%

Price CAGR, 5 years26.0%

Every figure is arithmetic on the filed lines (hover a name for the formula); the priced ones use the latest daily close, CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits. Debt to equity here stands on long-term debt as W.W. Grainger, Inc. files it, with lease liabilities counted separately and never inside it. Nothing here is a valuation or a view.

Price, 17 September 2021 to 21 September 2026

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Daily closes from CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits; the last is 21 September 2026. P/E is the close over the trailing four quarters' EPS as filed at each filing date, on the current share count; the dashed line is the median over the range shown. Sales and margin are quarterly revenue and the operating margin from the tables above. EV/EBITDA, price to book and market cap to sales use the latest filed balance sheet and share count at each date. Drawn in your browser; the range and overlay you pick are remembered here only.

The public record on GWW

Filings	15 in twelve months: 7 current reports (8-K), about 4 results of operations; 1 officer or director change; 1 shareholder vote; 1 charter or bylaw amendment, or fiscal year change
Planned insider sales	7 Form 144 notices in twelve months, $33.5 million; latest 12 May 2026
Options tape	put/call 0.4 by open interest on 23 September 2026; the straddle prices a 4.8% move to 16 October 2026
Holders	10 of the followed funds hold it; largest Geode Capital Management; 2 Schedule 13D or 13G filings in twelve months
Insider trading	39 sales and 0 purchases on Form 4 in twelve months
Congress	1 House trade disclosed in six months
Short interest	1.0 million shares short, 5.05 days to cover at 31 August 2026
Documents	the 10-K, the 10-Qs, the proxy and 4 earnings press releases, each linked

Quarterly results, the last 12 quarters

	Q3 FY2023	Q4 FY2023 *	Q1 FY2024	Q2 FY2024	Q3 FY2024	Q4 FY2024 *	Q1 FY2025	Q2 FY2025	Q3 FY2025	Q4 FY2025 *	Q1 FY2026	Q2 FY2026
Revenue	4,208	3,997	4,235	4,312	4,388	4,233	4,306	4,554	4,657	4,425	4,742	5,021
Cost of revenue	2,553	2,434	2,567	2,618	2,668	2,557	2,596	2,799	2,859	2,679	2,846	3,037
Gross profit	1,655	1,563	1,668	1,694	1,720	1,676	1,710	1,755	1,798	1,746	1,896	1,984
Gross margin	39%	39%	39%	39%	39%	40%	40%	39%	39%	39%	40%	40%
SG&A	988	1,006	999	1,045	1,034	1,043	1,038	1,077	1,287	1,112	1,103	1,177
Operating income	667	557	669	649	686	633	672	678	511	634	793	807
Operating margin	16%	14%	16%	15%	16%	15%	16%	15%	11%	14%	17%	16%
Pre-tax income	652	541	655	636	671	622	657	661	492	620	775	798
Tax rate	24%	24%	24%	23%	25%	20%	24%	23%	35%	23%	25%	25%
Net income	476	395	478	470	486	475	479	482	294	451	555	570
Net margin	11%	10%	11%	11%	11%	11%	11%	11%	6%	10%	12%	11%
Diluted EPS	$9.43	$7.91	$9.62	$9.51	$9.87	$9.71	$9.86	$9.97	$6.12	$9.45	$11.65	$12.01
Operating cash flow	523	604	661	411	611	428	646	377	597	395	739	444
Capital expenditure	125	127	119	76.0	88.0	258	125	175	258	126	170	111
Free cash flow	398	477	542	335	523	170	521	202	339	269	569	333
Buybacks	193	344	268	244	227	462	281	226	291	247	237	224
Dividends paid	106	92.0	105	101	115	100	115	110	133	109	108	145
Shares outstanding	50m	49m	49m	49m	49m	48m	48m	48m	48m	47m	47m	47m
Filing	10-Q	10-K	10-Q	10-Q	10-Q	10-K	10-Q	10-Q	10-Q	10-K	10-Q	10-Q

* The fourth quarter is the full year less the first three quarters, because the company files the year and not the quarter on its own. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and the share count are as they are. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Cash flow lines filed year to date are the difference between two filings. Shares outstanding are at the period end where the balance sheet tags them, otherwise the count on the filing's cover page. A derived fourth-quarter EPS is left blank when a split in the year makes the arithmetic meaningless.

Profit and loss, 12 fiscal years and the trailing twelve months

	FY2014 †	FY2015 †	FY2016 †	FY2017 †	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023 †	FY2024	FY2025	TTM
Revenue	9,965	9,973	10,137	10,425	11,221	11,486	11,797	13,022	15,228	16,478	17,168	17,942	18,845
Cost of revenue	5,651	5,742	6,023	6,327	6,873	7,089	7,559	8,302	9,379	9,982	10,410	10,933	11,421
Gross profit	4,314	4,231	4,115	4,098	4,348	4,397	4,238	4,720	5,849	6,496	6,758	7,009	7,424
Gross margin	43.3%	42.4%	40.6%	39.3%	38.7%	38.3%	35.9%	36.2%	38.4%	39.4%	39.4%	39.1%	39.4%
Selling, general and administrative	2,967	2,931	3,002	3,063	3,190	3,135	3,219	3,173	3,634	3,931	4,121	4,514	4,679
Operating income	1,347	1,300	1,113	1,035	1,158	1,262	1,019	1,547	2,215	2,565	2,637	2,495	2,745
Operating margin	13.5%	13.0%	11.0%	9.9%	10.3%	11.0%	8.6%	11.9%	14.5%	15.6%	15.4%	13.9%	14.6%
Interest expense	10.1	33.6	76.0	89.0	88.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	93.0	77.0	81.0	n/a
Pre-tax income	1,334	1,251	1,019	935	1,081	1,209	947	1,485	2,146	2,500	2,584	2,430	2,685
Income tax	522	466	386	313	258	314	192	371	533	597	595	622	704
Effective tax rate	39.1%	37.2%	37.9%	33.5%	23.9%	26.0%	20.3%	25.0%	24.8%	23.9%	23.0%	25.6%	26.2%
Net income	802	769	606	586	782	849	695	1,043	1,547	1,829	1,909	1,706	1,870
Net margin	8.0%	7.7%	6.0%	5.6%	7.0%	7.4%	5.9%	8.0%	10.2%	11.1%	11.1%	9.5%	9.9%
Diluted EPS	$11.45	$11.58	$9.87	$10.02	$13.73	$15.32	$12.82	$19.84	$30.06	$36.23	$38.71	$35.40	$39.23
Filing	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K

Income statement lines from each year's 10-K, the year linked to its filing; TTM is the sum of the last four quarters. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Those four are arithmetic on the filed numbers; everything else is as filed. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and share counts are as they are. † The year as the company last restated it in a later filing; rest on a figure for the one first filed. EPS is as filed.

Cash flow and capital returned

	FY2014 †	FY2015 †	FY2016 †	FY2017 †	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023 †	FY2024	FY2025	TTM
Operating cash flow	960	1,036	1,024	1,057	1,057	1,042	1,123	937	1,333	2,031	2,111	2,015	2,175
Capital expenditure	387	374	284	237	239	221	197	255	256	445	541	684	665
Free cash flow	572	662	740	819	818	821	926	682	1,077	1,586	1,570	1,331	1,510
Free cash flow margin	5.7%	6.6%	7.3%	7.9%	7.3%	7.1%	7.8%	5.2%	7.1%	9.6%	9.1%	7.4%	8.0%
Depreciation and amortisation	190	207	223	241	257	210	169	173	206	277	311	330	332
Share-based compensation	49.0	46.9	36.0	33.0	47.0	40.0	46.0	42.0	48.0	62.0	62.0	64.0	68.0
Buybacks	525	1,400	790	605	425	700	601	695	603	850	1,201	1,045	999
Dividends paid	291	306	303	304	316	328	338	357	370	392	421	467	495
Dividend per share	$4.17	$4.59	$4.83	$5.06	$5.36	$5.68	$5.94	$6.39	$6.78	$7.30	$8.01	$8.83	n/a
Diluted shares, weighted	69m	66m	61m	58m	57m	55m	54m	52m	51m	50m	49m	48m	47m
Shares outstanding at period end	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	47m
Filing	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K

Buybacks and dividends are the cash paid in the year, from the cash flow statement; the dividend per share is as declared. Diluted shares are the weighted average for the year; a falling count is the buybacks net of issuance. TTM sums the last four quarters; the share counts are the latest quarter's.

Balance sheet at year end

	FY2014 †	FY2015 †	FY2016 †	FY2017 †	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023 †	FY2024	FY2025	TTM
Total assets	5,284	5,858	5,694	5,804	5,873	6,005	6,295	6,592	7,588	8,147	8,829	8,962	9,618
Cash and equivalents	227	290	274	327	538	360	585	241	325	660	1,036	585	589
Receivables	1,173	1,210	1,223	1,325	1,385	1,425	1,474	1,754	2,133	2,192	2,232	2,329	2,825
Inventory	1,356	1,414	1,406	1,429	1,541	1,655	1,733	1,870	2,253	2,266	2,306	2,394	2,371
Goodwill	507	582	527	544	424	429	391	384	371	370	355	360	354
Long-term debt	403	1,388	1,880	2,248	2,090	1,914	2,389	2,362	2,284	2,300	2,778	2,488	2,408
Borrowings, as the company tags them	n/a	1,649	1,880	2,310	2,193	2,181	2,421	2,385	2,340	2,319	n/a	n/a	n/a
Operating lease liabilities	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	171	162	334	318	381	327	301	317
Shareholders' equity	3,210	2,267	1,798	1,690	1,921	1,855	1,828	1,874	2,440	3,115	3,358	3,736	4,131
Filing	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K

At the fiscal year end; the TTM column is the latest quarter end. A line the company does not tag under the usual name is left out.

Compounded growth

	10 years	5 years	3 years	TTM
Sales growth, compounded	6.0%	8.7%	5.6%	7.8%
Profit growth, compounded	8.3%	19.7%	3.3%	-2.7%
Return on equity, average	47.3%	56.1%	53.7%	45.7%

Compounded growth is the latest fiscal year over the year that many years earlier, annualised; the TTM column is the last four quarters over the four before. Return on equity is net income over shareholders' equity at each year end, averaged over the window (the TTM column is the latest year alone); equity is the parent's shareholders' equity as tagged in the 10-K. Arithmetic on filed numbers, nothing forecast.

Filings

Filing	Period	Filed	Where
10-Q	30 June 2026	4 August 2026	EDGAR
10-Q	31 March 2026	7 May 2026	EDGAR
10-K	31 December 2025	19 February 2026	EDGAR
10-Q	30 September 2025	31 October 2025	EDGAR
10-Q	30 June 2025	1 August 2025	EDGAR
10-Q	31 March 2025	1 May 2025	EDGAR
10-K	31 December 2024	20 February 2025	EDGAR
10-Q	30 September 2024	31 October 2024	EDGAR
10-Q	30 June 2024	1 August 2024	EDGAR
10-Q	31 March 2024	25 April 2024	EDGAR

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