GWWW. W. Grainger
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +16% a year vs +6% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~16% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 6% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 32.9 vs a 22.1 median over 41 quarters (+49% vs median).
Sector median 23.3× across 246 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What GWW's price assumes
W. W. Grainger trades at 32.9× earnings against 25.8× for the median Industrial Distribution name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Industrial Distribution median 25.8 · 1.28× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.42
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.3%
Free cash flow yield · Industrial Distribution median 4.1%
- Growth the price implies
- +16%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +16% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +3.6% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 15.6
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 24.1
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 3.52
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Industrial Distribution median P/E20 names
- 25.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.51B
- Market capitalisation
- $64.5B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +5.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +3.6%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $739.17 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $865.61 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $1,026.04 |
| 52-week range | $914.60 – $1,401.86 |
| Today | $1,289.89 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Industrial Distribution
The closest names by size in the same industry