NYSE:GWW - W W Grainger Stock Price, Forecast & News

W W Grainger trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GWW."

W W Grainger announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 11th will be paid a dividend of $1.44 per share on Sunday, December 1st. This represents a $5.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.73%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 7th. View W W Grainger's Dividend History.

W W Grainger announced that its board has approved a share buyback program on Wednesday, April 24th 2019, which allows the company to repurchase 5,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

W W Grainger Inc (NYSE:GWW) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The industrial products company reported $4.26 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $4.40 by $0.14. The industrial products company earned $2.95 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.94 billion. W W Grainger had a return on equity of 46.07% and a net margin of 8.38%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 4.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $4.19 EPS. View W W Grainger's Earnings History.

W W Grainger is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for W W Grainger.

W W Grainger will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

11 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for W W Grainger's shares. Their forecasts range from $240.00 to $338.00. On average, they anticipate W W Grainger's share price to reach $297.65 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for W W Grainger.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for W W Grainger in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for W W Grainger.

News headlines about GWW stock have been trending neutral recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. W W Grainger earned a news sentiment score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for W W Grainger.

W W Grainger saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,810,000 shares, a drop of 7.7% from the December 15th total of 1,960,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 349,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.2 days. Currently, 4.2% of the company's stock are sold short. View W W Grainger's Current Options Chain.

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W W Grainger's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.22%), Birch Hill Investment Advisors LLC (0.06%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.04%), Fruth Investment Management (0.04%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.04%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own W W Grainger stock include Brian P Anderson, Donald G Macpherson, Eric R Tapia, John L Howard, Lucas E Watson, Paige K Robbins and Ronald L Jadin. View Institutional Ownership Trends for W W Grainger.

GWW stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Scout Investments Inc., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Boston Trust Walden Corp, Ridgewood Investments LLC, Fruth Investment Management and Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI. Company insiders that have sold W W Grainger company stock in the last year include Donald G Macpherson, Eric R Tapia, John L Howard and Paige K Robbins. View Insider Buying and Selling for W W Grainger.

GWW stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Cadinha & Co. LLC, First Hawaiian Bank, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Tuttle Tactical Management, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., DNB Asset Management AS and RFG Advisory LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for W W Grainger.

Shares of GWW can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GWW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $332.54.

W W Grainger has a market capitalization of $17.91 billion and generates $11.22 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $782 million in net income (profit) each year or $16.70 on an earnings per share basis. W W Grainger employs 24,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About W W Grainger.

The official website for W W Grainger is http://www.grainger.com/.

W W Grainger's mailing address is 100 GRAINGER PARKWAY, LAKE FOREST IL, 60045. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 847-535-1000 or via email at [email protected]