W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW): Price and Financial Metrics

GWW POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where GWW ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.28% of US stocks.
• GWW's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• GWW ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 27th percentile.

GWW Stock Summary

• GWW has a market capitalization of $26,518,355,035 -- more than approximately 90.1% of US stocks.
• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for GWW is 6.95 -- better than 95.2% of US stocks.
• Ww Grainger Inc's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Ww Grainger Inc are TSCO, CINF, CRH, OMC, and ULTA.
• GWW's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Ww Grainger Inc's official web site, go to www.grainger.com.

GWW Valuation Summary

• GWW's price/earnings ratio is 25.6; this is 1.73% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, GWW's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.
• GWW's price/sales ratio has moved up 1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for GWW.

GWW Growth Metrics

Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -62.33%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 23.41%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 17.38%.

Over the past 70 months, GWW's revenue has gone up $2,981,739,000.

The table below shows GWW's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	13,022	937	1,043
2021-09-30	12,604	1,060	928
2021-06-30	12,250	1,210	871
2021-03-31	11,880	1,173	760
2020-12-31	11,797	1,123	695
2020-09-30	11,703	1,059	630

GWW's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• GWW has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 97.8% of graded US stocks.
• GWW's asset turnover comes in at 1.979 -- ranking 39th of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• SGBX, CAPL, and ZEUS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with GWW.

The table below shows GWW's key quality metrics over time.