W.W. Grainger is a business-to-business distributor of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products and services with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the U.K. Co.'s product offering is grouped under several categories, including safety and security, material handling and storage, pumps and plumbing equipment, cleaning and maintenance, metalworking and hand tools. Co.'s two reportable segments are High-Touch Solutions N.A. and Endless Assortment. Co.'s High-Touch Solutions N.A. segment provides MRO solutions. Co.'s Endless Assortment segment provides an online platform with one-stop shopping for various products. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our GWW shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute GWW market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing GWW market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing GWW's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of GWW versus a peer is one thing; comparing
GWW market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like GWW can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching GWW by allowing them to research the GWW market cap history. |
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