GWW

W.W. Grainger, Inc. ·NYSE·Industrials
1,305.33 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -6.7
27.4%
Brown Bear Score
51.0%
Business Conviction Score
20.2%
Position Health Score
25.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +35.8% · range 918.18–1,402.03

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 14.9%
OCF / assets 22.5%
FCF / revenue 11.2%
Gross margin 39.4%
ROIC 35.8%
Forward P/E 25.6

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 6.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price and forward earnings growth are broadly in step; no strong valuation lean either way.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-11-04 · consensus EPS 11.80

Q2 23 revenue: 4.18bnQ2 23 net income: 470.00mQ2 23 EPS: 9.34Q3 23 revenue: 4.21bnQ3 23 net income: 476.00mQ3 23 EPS: 9.50Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 4.00bnQ4 23 net income: 395.00mQ4 23 EPS: 7.88Q1 24 revenue: 4.24bnQ1 24 net income: 478.00mQ1 24 EPS: 9.68Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 4.31bnQ2 24 net income: 470.00mQ2 24 EPS: 9.55Q3 24 revenue: 4.39bnQ3 24 net income: 486.00mQ3 24 EPS: 9.94Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 4.23bnQ4 24 net income: 475.00mQ4 24 EPS: 9.69Q1 25 revenue: 4.31bnQ1 25 net income: 479.00mQ1 25 EPS: 9.92Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 4.55bnQ2 25 net income: 482.00mQ2 25 EPS: 10.02Q3 25 revenue: 4.66bnQ3 25 net income: 294.00mQ3 25 EPS: 6.14Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 4.42bnQ4 25 net income: 451.00mQ4 25 EPS: 9.40Q1 26 revenue: 4.74bnQ1 26 net income: 555.00mQ1 26 EPS: 11.71Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (6.14–11.71, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 4.74bn +10.1% 555.00m 11.71 11.65 +13.0% 2026-05-07
2025-12-31 (derived) 4.42bn +4.5% 451.00m 9.40 9.44 -1.2% 2026-02-19
2025-09-30 4.66bn +6.1% 294.00m 6.14 10.21 +1.6% 2025-10-31
2025-06-30 4.55bn +5.6% 482.00m 10.02 2025-08-01

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±4.3%
On an ordinary two days ±1.1% — filings move it 3.8× as much
Direction 7 up, 4 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +16.9% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-28: price +8.7%Q1 23 revenue +12.2% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-27: price +5.4%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +9.0% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-27: price -4.0%Q3 23 revenue +6.7% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-26: price +4.3%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +3.5% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-25: price -3.0%Q2 24 revenue +3.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-01: price -2.5%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +4.3% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-31: price +0.5%Q1 25 revenue +1.7% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-01: price +4.3%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +5.6% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-08-01: price -9.7%Q3 25 revenue +6.1% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-31: price +1.1%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +10.1% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-07: price +5.5%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-05-07 +10.1% +5.5% +5.7%
2025-09-30 2025-10-31 +6.1% +1.1% -0.0%
2025-06-30 2025-08-01 +5.6% -9.7% +7.0%
2025-03-31 2025-05-01 +1.7% +4.3% -3.8%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 47.4M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -1.9%
Change over 3 years -6.1%
Public float $41.05bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 1,207.55 — 1,311.40
Protective stop 1,201.11 (Structure, 4.6% risk)
Support 1,217.33 (3 touches, 7.2% away)
Resistance 1,379.76 (5.7% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 5.7% below 1,379.76, where sellers have turned up before, and 7.2% above 1,217.33, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 3 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 4.6% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 5/14/28 (53% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR (fresh down cross, 3d ago) | cloud twist BEAR (fresh down, 4d ago)
Cloud eventFresh down breakout 6d ago
Cloud thickness51% percentile
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice INSIDE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 1,314.76 to 1,340.07. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -4.8%
63 days +5.4%
126 days +9.8%
252 days +38.9%
Below 252d high6.9%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension above Kalman fair trend; entry risk is elevated.

Volatility

State Expanded out of a squeeze
Current band width13.0% of price
Recent tightest4.8% (7 sessions ago, narrower than 98.0% of its history)
Expansion since2.73×
Band 1,259.78 — 1,435.18

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 13% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 98% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 2.7 times as widely as during that quiet spell. A stock that has been quiet tends to make its next move look big by comparison, simply because the recent bar was low.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 1,275.06–1,399.302026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger EMA50 reclaim +1.2% gap is improving; Kalman reversion supports pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 EMA20 reclaim +2.0% gap is improving; Kalman reversion supports pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 MACD bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst; Kalman reversion supports pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Improving
  4. Trigger 4 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway; Kalman reversion supports pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Deteriorating
  5. Trigger 5 MACD repair streak continuation 3 improving bars MACD histogram has improved for 3 consecutive sessions; Kalman reversion supports pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Improving

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

GWW: no binary-event flag. Near IV 27%, far IV 27% (ratio 1.03), implied move 3.4%.

Implied volatility 27% near (9d) · 27% far (65d)
Term structure 1.03× near/far
Historical volatility 27%
Implied vs historical 1.01×
Implied move ±3.4% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.46×
Skew Call Skew (0.52×)
Call wall 1,440.00 (+10.3% away)
Put wall 940.00 (-28.0% away)
Gamma pin 1,380.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.4% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 36.1/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 36.1
Rotation strength 64.8
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 79.4 95.3
Stock vs SPY Improving 79.1 108.5
Sector vs SPY Improving 87.2 105.9

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Altman Z-score 19.56 (+10.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 39.4% (+7.1)
  • ROIC quality: 35.8% (+26.4)
  • FCF margin quality: 11.2% (+7.5)
  • FCF margin improving by -1.1 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.034) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.02 -> -0.03) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 24.1 and rising (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.76 (+3.5)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 2.91 (+10.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 36.6, 5-day change +9.1 (+7.3)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 1.2% (+4.0)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 9.5% (+0.3)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.26 (+5.9)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 1: weak MACD histogram (-9.15)
  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.44x average)
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.09)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-11.0)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 2.0%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -1.8%
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-5.0)
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.11)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 1.2%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.3%
  • ROIC improving by -5.0 pts (+-5.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.