Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000277135-25-000010
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Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
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 repurchase an aggregate amount of up to five million shares in the open market, through privately negotiated transactions and block transactions, pursuant to a trading plan or otherwise (2024 Program) with no expiration date. In authorizing the 2024 Program, the Board of Directors terminated the 2021 Program.
(D)The difference of 206 shares between the Total Number of Shares Purchased and the Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs represents shares purchased by the administrator and record keeper of the W.W. Grainger, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan for the benefit of the team members who participate in the plan.
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Company Performance
The following stock price performance graph compares the cumulative total return on an investment in Grainger common stock with the cumulative total return of an investment in each of the Dow Jones US Industrial Suppliers Total Stock Market Index, which includes Grainger, and the S&P 500 Stock Index. It covers the period commencing December 31, 2019 and ending December 31, 2024. The graph assumes that the value for the investment in Grainger common stock and in each index was $100 on December 31, 2019, and that all dividends were reinvested.

                                                                                                                                       December 31,
2019                                                                                   2020          2021          2022          2023          2024
W.W. Grainger, Inc.                                                  $100          $123          $158          $172          $259          $332    
Dow Jones US Industrial Suppliers Total Stock Market Index            100           125           170           151           223           260    
S&amp;P 500 Stock Index                                               100           118           152           125           158           197