2024-04-08 09:12:13 ET
Summary
- GWW has strengthened its infrastructure, manpower, and marketing efforts, improving its online channels and adding new warehouses.
- Challenges exist regarding pressure on noncore B2C volume and the slowing macro environment.
- Its strategies include reviewing its product portfolio, investing in data analytics, and expanding its supply chain network.
- The stock is relatively overvalued.
GWW Will Hold Its Ground
I discussed W.W. Grainger ( GWW ) in the past, and you can read the previous article here , published on November 5, 2021. Since then, the company has strengthened its infrastructure, manpower, and customs capabilities. It has improved the MonotaRO online channels in the US and Japan and added three new bulk warehouses. Its High-Touch U.S. business can significantly outperform the MRO market, leading to steady operating profit growth in 2024....
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W.W. Grainger Made Strategic Finetuning But Valuation Stretches (Rating Downgrade)