Company Analysis

Global Industrial Company (GIC)

NYSE: GIC · Wholesale-Industrial Machinery & Equipment · Port Washington, NY · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade6.5
◀ Past 7.3● Present 6.3▶ Future 6.1

The grade of Global Industrial Company

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.5/10
◀ Past7.325% of the headline
● Present6.345% of the headline
▶ Future6.130% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.3/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 78th percentile among 51 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Global Industrial Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
7.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 76th percentile among 50 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Global Industrial Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $753 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span7.0%top 37% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 8% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.3% a year. 49% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 25 sales, 4 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 57th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Global Industrial Company's diluted share count grew about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 49% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 25 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $2 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 47% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.3/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 23%: 23¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 46%: owes 46¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 50 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Global Industrial Company earned about 23 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 84 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 46 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 42% of its family
  • return on equitytop 16% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 1% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 48% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 37% of 51 in its family; net margin 5.2%.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 51 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Global Industrial Company's standing among 51 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 44% by size; a net margin of 5.2% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of 5.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 23% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.38Bbottom 44% of its family
  • net margin5.2%top 32% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth5.8%top 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
4.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 47% of 35 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Global Industrial Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Chaibi, Anesa (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-02-18, 1.7 years (bottom 34% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (bottom 39%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 31%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 16 peopletop 31% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.5 yearsbottom 39% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.7 yearsbottom 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
7.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 22% of 49 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 78th percentile among 49 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Global Industrial Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $68 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 11.6% of its assets as net cash, top 17% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 5.4% of revenue (top 32%); a gross margin of 35.5% (top 17%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets11.6%top 17% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue5.4%top 32% of its family
  • gross margin35.5%top 17% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 45% of 50 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 50 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Global Industrial Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 5.8% a year over the last three filed years against 7% over all 10, slowing (top 43% of its family); the newest year grew 4.8% (top 41%); capital spending grew -25.2% a year (bottom 18%) (its annual reports). Global Industrial Company tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.2 points a yeartop 43% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.8%top 41% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-25.2%bottom 18% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.9/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 41% of 44 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 44 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Global Industrial Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.3% below the $1.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 35% of its family); net income of $72 million against a prior three-year average of $70 million (top 28%); a net margin of 5.2% against 5.6% before (top 31%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-1.3%bottom 35% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+3%top 28% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-0.4 pointstop 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton GIC · research, not advice