W.W. Grainger, Inc.

GWW stock score: 65/100

$1351.87 · +1.19% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
70
Fundamental
59
News
43

The reading

W.W. Grainger (GWW) scores 65 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 91% of Industrials stocks and 88% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 70, fundamentals 59.

Among the fundamentals, Revenue Quality (Quarterly) at 100 and Return on Equity (ROE) at 99 score highest, while Price to Book Ratio at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 72 and contrarian oscillators 31 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 43; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 24, 2026 the composite has ranged from 58 to 76, and it is down 11 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward GWW’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

59

Pulling it up

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

  • Return on Equity (ROE)99

    Return on Equity (ROE) measures how efficiently a company generates profits from shareholder equity.

  • Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)98

    Return on Invested Capital measures the operating profit a company earns on all the capital invested in it, debt and equity alike.

Holding it back

  • Price to Book Ratio0

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

  • Fair Value0

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • EV/EBITDA11

    EV/EBITDA compares the whole company's value, debt included, with its operating earnings before depreciation.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

67

Pulling it up

  • Know Sure Thing (KST)100

    Know Sure Thing (KST) combines multiple rate-of-change calculations to identify long-term trend reversals.

  • Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO)100

    Percentage Price Oscillator shows the difference between two moving averages as a percentage.

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (50)0

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)5

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (28)13

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
43

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly571
Daily673
Weekly682
Monthly742
Quarterly772

Composite score, last 90 days

05010065Jul 24, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 24, 2026: 76Jul 25, 2026: 65Jul 26, 2026: 65Jul 27, 2026: 66Jul 28, 2026: 65Jul 29, 2026: 63Jul 30, 2026: 63Jul 31, 2026: 65Aug 2, 2026: 64Aug 3, 2026: 61Aug 4, 2026: 59Aug 5, 2026: 58Aug 6, 2026: 58Aug 7, 2026: 61Aug 8, 2026: 61Aug 9, 2026: 61Aug 10, 2026: 62Aug 11, 2026: 63Aug 12, 2026: 65Aug 13, 2026: 63Aug 14, 2026: 64Aug 15, 2026: 63Aug 16, 2026: 63Aug 17, 2026: 63Aug 18, 2026: 62Aug 19, 2026: 64Aug 20, 2026: 64Aug 22, 2026: 62Aug 23, 2026: 62Aug 24, 2026: 63Aug 25, 2026: 61Aug 26, 2026: 63Aug 27, 2026: 63Aug 28, 2026: 61Aug 29, 2026: 61Aug 30, 2026: 61Aug 31, 2026: 62Sep 1, 2026: 62Sep 2, 2026: 62Sep 3, 2026: 62Sep 4, 2026: 64Sep 5, 2026: 62Sep 6, 2026: 62Sep 7, 2026: 62Sep 8, 2026: 62Sep 9, 2026: 59Sep 10, 2026: 59Sep 11, 2026: 60Sep 12, 2026: 60Sep 13, 2026: 60Sep 14, 2026: 60Sep 15, 2026: 60Sep 16, 2026: 59Sep 17, 2026: 60Sep 18, 2026: 60Sep 19, 2026: 59Sep 20, 2026: 59Sep 21, 2026: 61Sep 22, 2026: 60Sep 23, 2026: 62Sep 24, 2026: 62Sep 25, 2026: 59Sep 26, 2026: 59Sep 27, 2026: 60Sep 28, 2026: 60Sep 29, 2026: 60Sep 30, 2026: 60Oct 1, 2026: 61Oct 2, 2026: 63Oct 3, 2026: 62Oct 4, 2026: 62Oct 5, 2026: 62Oct 6, 2026: 62Oct 7, 2026: 61Oct 8, 2026: 61Oct 9, 2026: 63Oct 10, 2026: 63Oct 11, 2026: 63Oct 12, 2026: 64Oct 13, 2026: 65Oct 14, 2026: 64Oct 15, 2026: 64Oct 16, 2026: 64Oct 17, 2026: 64Oct 18, 2026: 64Oct 19, 2026: 63Oct 20, 2026: 64Oct 21, 2026: 65
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Key facts

Market cap
$63.7B
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Industrial Distribution
Beta
1.01
Risk grade (1–10)
3
Next earnings
Nov 4, 2026

Industrial Distribution peers

CompanyMarket capScore
FAST Fastenal Company$60.2B65
FERG Ferguson Enterprises$44.1B50
WCC WESCO International$17.0B59
WSO Watsco$12.6B49
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies$12.4B66
QXO QXO$10.7B38

Questions

What is GWW's stock score today?

GWW scores 65/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 70, fundamental 59, and news sentiment 43, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is GWW a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 65 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the GWW score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Industrials ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.