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WW GRAINGER INC

For the period ended Mar 31, 2025. Filed May 1, 2025.

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A company's report for each of its first three quarters. The financial statements are not audited. It shows how the business has moved since the last annual report, and what management says changed.

Mar 31, 2025 · Filed May 1, 2025

GWW$1,440.70-0.7%Stored close · as of Nov 6, 2026

What changed in Risk Factors?

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Previous report: 10-Q

Period ended 2024-09-30; filed 2024-10-31.

0000277135-24-000173

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Current report: 10-Q

Period ended 2025-03-31; filed 2025-05-01.

0000277135-25-000067

Item 1A. Risk Factors

The baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.

Compared 5 previous paragraphs and 6 current paragraphs.

3 unchanged; 2 reworded; 1 added; 0 removed; 0 previous and 0 current paragraphs rearranged.

Tables are not compared: 1 previous and 1 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.

A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.

Added paragraphs (1)

Current report

B. The difference of 363 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 employees who participate in the plan.
Reworded paragraphs (2)

Previous wording

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities – Third Quarter 2024

Current wording

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities – First Quarter 2025

Previous wording

C. Priorto April 28, 2024, purchases were made pursuant to a share repurchase program approved by Grainger's Board of Directors and announced on April 28, 2021 (2021 Program). On April 24, 2024, Grainger's Board of Directors authorized a program for the Company to 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.

Current wording

D. Purchases were made pursuant to a share repurchase program approved by Grainger's Board of Directors and announced April 24, 2024 (2024 Program). The 2024 Program authorized the Company to 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 with no expiration date.