GWW Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (W.W. Grainger | NYSE:GWW)

Founded in 1927, W.W. Grainger originally distributed various motors via a mail-order catalogue. Over the course of the 20th century, the firm expanded into new industrial product categories and launched its first digital catalogue in 1995. Today, the company organizes itself into two segments focused on different customer bases. Its larger segment, high-touch solutions, offers a vast array of maintenance, repair, and operations, or MRO, supplies and bespoke inventory management services to larger businesses. Its smaller segment, endless assortment, operates two online platforms, Zoro and MonotaRO, that offer comprehensive catalogues of MRO supplies to smaller businesses. Grainger has operations throughout the world but primarily generates sales within the US.

W.W. Grainger trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol GWW.

As of January 29, 2026, GWW stock price climbed to $1,082.21 with 352,178 million shares trading.

GWW has a beta of 0.68, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GWW has a correlation of 0.26 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GWW has a market cap of $51.46 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter W.W. Grainger reported $5 billion in Revenue and $10.21 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $15 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.27.

In the last 3 years, GWW traded as high as $1,227.66 and as low as $569.95.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that GWW belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.

GWW has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -3.6%, while SPY returned +16.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in GWW shares. However, GWW has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +12.6% and +2.7%, while SPY returned +1.3% and +0.5%, respectively. This indicates GWW has been having a stronger performance recently.

GWW support price is $1,054.94 and resistance is $1,085.08 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that GWW shares will trade within this expected range on the day.