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NYSE · GWW
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Industrials · Industrial - Distribution
$1,243.07
Down-$36.40 (-2.84%)
Updated Sep 26, 2026, 5:50 PM
SID Score
5.5/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
52/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 49.11B
- P/E ratio
- 30.38
- Dividend yield
- 0.71%
- 52-week range
- $996.28 – $1,419.91
- Volume
- 391.22K
- Avg. volume
- 284.09K
Price performance
GWW price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
GWW closed at $1,243.07 after 20 trading sessions, down 4.84% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $1,243.07
- Period change
- -4.84%
- Period low
- $1,243.07
- Period high
- $1,324.49
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | $1,260.00 | $1,265.11 | $1,237.47 | $1,243.07 | 391.22K |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $1,271.62 | $1,296.34 | $1,269.45 | $1,279.47 | 229.7K |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $1,266.60 | $1,276.42 | $1,262.26 | $1,270.67 | 316.67K |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $1,283.86 | $1,289.94 | $1,260.32 | $1,268.62 | 298.27K |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $1,269.95 | $1,279.16 | $1,252.97 | $1,277.79 | 212.89K |
| Sep 18, 2026 | $1,260.15 | $1,270.64 | $1,252.10 | $1,266.61 | 355.32K |
| Sep 17, 2026 | $1,275.00 | $1,278.245 | $1,250.60 | $1,262.61 | 236.13K |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $1,274.39 | $1,274.51 | $1,252.93 | $1,258.26 | 263.52K |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $1,269.58 | $1,280.03 | $1,258.695 | $1,269.53 | 334.74K |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $1,280.15 | $1,291.92 | $1,271.64 | $1,277.51 | 247.38K |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $1,289.00 | $1,296.68 | $1,274.2001 | $1,280.00 | 252.81K |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $1,277.44 | $1,283.35 | $1,263.57 | $1,271.49 | 229.87K |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $1,282.37 | $1,292.67 | $1,274.28 | $1,278.83 | 225.41K |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $1,319.65 | $1,319.86 | $1,271.79 | $1,289.17 | 352.27K |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $1,312.66 | $1,330.62 | $1,312.52 | $1,324.49 | 175.39K |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $1,290.45 | $1,312.99 | $1,283.48 | $1,312.84 | 147.33K |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $1,306.38 | $1,311.75 | $1,283.97 | $1,284.85 | 292.16K |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $1,312.16 | $1,317.75 | $1,297.94 | $1,309.21 | 192.95K |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $1,304.17 | $1,312.86 | $1,300.13 | $1,309.49 | 426.95K |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $1,334.29 | $1,335.31 | $1,294.05 | $1,306.30 | 150.18K |
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Overview
Company profile and research snapshot.
Company profile
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.
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Consensus and target data currently published for this company.
- Consensus
- Hold
- Average target
- $1,050.17
- Implied upside
- —
- Analysts
- 9
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | Barclays | Underweight | — |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Morgan Stanley | Equal-Weight | — |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Barclays | Underweight | — |
| Aug 6, 2026 | DA Davidson | Neutral | — |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Oppenheimer | Outperform | — |
News briefing
Generated Sep 26, 2026, 7:10 PM
Why Is GWW Down Today?
W.W. Grainger shares fell 2.84% ($36.40) today, driven primarily by a downgrade from Barclays that lowered its price target on the industrial distributor. The rating action reflects analyst concerns about the company's near-term prospects, though the stock continues to attract attention within the competitive industrial distribution sector.
Bottom line: GWW's 2.84% decline today reflects Barclays' Underweight downgrade and lowered $1,172 price target, signaling analyst caution despite the company's competitive positioning in industrial distribution. Investors should monitor for additional analyst downgrades while watching for operational catalysts that could challenge the bearish thesis, though near-term momentum appears challenged.
Benzinga · Sep 25, 2026
Barclays Maintains Underweight on W.W. Grainger, Lowers Price Target to $1172
Barclays analyst Guy Hardwick maintains W.W. Grainger (NYSE:GWW) with a Underweight and lowers the price target from $1185 to $1172.
Yahoo · Sep 24, 2026
5 Industrial Distributors With a Competitive Advantage Hiding in Plain Sight
Some distributors are so deeply wired into their customers' factories and procurement systems that a cheaper rival barely registers as a threat. Five industrial companies have built that kind of grip, and their dividend histories reveal just how durable the cash flows behind it really are.
Yahoo · Sep 23, 2026
GRAINGER'S FIFTH ANNUAL BUCKET BUILD HELPS COMMUNITIES PREPARE FOR DISASTER RECOVERY
Grainger (NYSE: GWW), a leading broad line distributor of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products and services, hosted its fifth annual Grainger Bucket Build today. More than 500 Grainger team members, ToolBank USA partners and students from YouthBuild Lake County and YouthBuild Waukegan assembled more than 4,000 disaster relief kits at the company's headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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