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W.W. Grainger (MIC:GWW-RM) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of Jun. 29, 2025)


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What is W.W. Grainger 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

W.W. Grainger's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.00.


The historical rank and industry rank for W.W. Grainger's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:


During the past 13 years, W.W. Grainger's highest Yield on Cost was 4.35. The lowest was 0.92. And the median was 2.30.


MIC:GWW-RM's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Industrial Distribution industry.
Industry Median: 3.9
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

Competitive Comparison of W.W. Grainger's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Industrial Distribution subindustry, W.W. Grainger's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


W.W. Grainger's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Industrial Distribution Industry

For the Industrial Distribution industry and Industrials sector, W.W. Grainger's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where W.W. Grainger's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.


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W.W. Grainger 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of W.W. Grainger is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost=Dividend Yield %*(1+Dividend Growth Rate)^5

W.W. Grainger  (MIC:GWW-RM) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.


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W.W. Grainger Business Description

Address
100 Grainger Parkway, Lake Forest, IL, USA, 60045-5201
Founded in 1927, W.W. Grainger originally distributed various motors via a mail-order catalogue. Over the course of the 20th century, the firm expanded into new industrial product categories and launched its first digital catalogue in 1995. Today, the company organizes itself into two segments focused on different customer bases. Its larger segment, high-touch solutions, offers a vast array of maintenance, repair, and operations, or MRO, supplies and bespoke inventory management services to larger businesses. Its smaller segment, endless assortment, operates two online platforms, Zoro and MonotaRO, that offer comprehensive catalogues of MRO supplies to smaller businesses. Grainger has operations throughout the world but primarily generates sales within the US.

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