W.W. Grainger Inc (NYSE: GWW) is 45.52% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $772.13 and a high of $1227.66 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The GWW stock was last observed hovering at around $1217.30 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -11.43%.
Currently trading at $1205.87, the stock is 2.34% and 8.59% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.16 million and changing -0.94% at the moment leaves the stock 21.29% off its SMA200. GWW registered 55.57% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 32.88%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $1106.6306 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $992.8749.
The stock witnessed a 9.79% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 24.57%, and is 2.33% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.71% over the week and 1.91% over the month.
W.W. Grainger Inc (GWW) has around 26000 employees, a market worth around $58.73B and $16.93B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 32.49 and Fwd P/E is 28.58. Profit margin for the company is 10.80%. Distance from 52-week low is 56.17% and -1.77% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (29.81%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 6.30% this year
1624.0 institutions hold shares in W.W. Grainger Inc (GWW), with institutional investors hold 79.05% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 49.32M, and float is at 45.71M with Short Float at 3.45%. Institutions hold 74.14% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 5.26 million shares valued at $4.74 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 10.6877 of the GWW Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 4.09 million shares valued at $3.69 billion to account for 8.3143 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 1.95 million shares representing 3.9671 and valued at over $1.76 billion, while FMR LLC holds 3.2036 of the shares totaling 1.58 million with a market value of $1.42 billion.
W.W. Grainger Inc (GWW) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Thomson Laurie R, the company’s VP, Controller. SEC filings show that Thomson Laurie R sold 125 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 13 ’24 at a price of $1206.03 per share for a total of $0.15 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 675.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 06 ’24, Berardinelli Krantz Nancy L (Sr. VP & CLO) disposed off 253 shares at an average price of $1192.52 for $0.3 million. The insider now directly holds 3,045 shares of W.W. Grainger Inc (GWW).
