GWW (GWW) Stock

About GWW

GWW is led by CEO Donald G. Macpherson, employs 23,500 people, headquartered in Lake Forest, US, publicly traded since 1973.

GWW stock trades at $1309.21 with a market capitalization of $61.81B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 36.37, price-to-book of 16.27, price-to-sales of 3.48. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $906.52 and $1402.52, and currently trades 6.7% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.68%.

On profitability, GWW generates a return on equity (ROE) of 46.13% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 64.98%, an operating margin of 15.00%, a net profit margin of 9.70%.

In its most recent fiscal year, GWW reported annual revenue of $17.9B, net profit of $1.7B, revenue has compounded at 8.7% a year over the last five years, profit at 19.7% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 2.69, total assets of $9.0B, $585.0M in cash and equivalents.

GWW has a beta of 1.05.