W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW)

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W.W. Grainger, Inc.'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).

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W.W. Grainger, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $10 billion in fiscal 2017 to $18 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7% a year; it rose in 8 of 8 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, W.W. Grainger, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 71% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 62 sales (46 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-02 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, W.W. Grainger, Inc. earned about 46 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 78 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 58 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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W.W. Grainger, Inc.'s standing among 51 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $18 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 15% by size; a net margin of 9.5% ranks in the top 11%; revenue growth of 5.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 25% (its annual reports).

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W.W. Grainger, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Macpherson, Donald G (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-02-17, 9.7 years (top 31% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (top 47%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 15%; 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.

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W.W. Grainger, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $585 million against debt of $2.4 billion leaves -19.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.4% of revenue (top 19%); a gross margin of 39.1% (top 8%) (its annual report).

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W.W. Grainger, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 5.6% a year over the last three filed years against 7% over all 9, slowing (top 45% of its family); the newest year grew 4.5% (top 43%); capital spending grew 38.8% a year (top 10%) (its annual reports). W.W. Grainger, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: High Touch Solutions NA at $14 billion, Endless Assortment at $3.6 billion. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 79% of revenue (its annual report).

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W.W. Grainger, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $18 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.6% below the $18 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 31% of its family); net income of $1.7 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.8 billion (top 33%); a net margin of 9.5% against 10.8% before (bottom 44%) (its annual reports).