Is it safe?
Can GWW take a bad year?
W. W. Grainger carries $1.82B of net debt at 0.60× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.82B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.60×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.59× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 13.64
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.58×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.41B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $589M
- Net debt
- $1.82B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.04B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.75B
- Debt / equity
- 0.58×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.79×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −42%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Industrial Distribution
Ranks #7 of 17 by Smart Score