W.W. Grainger, Inc.: investing cash flow

What this measure means

Net cash from investing activities, including asset purchases, disposals and investment transactions. This differs from capital expenditure payments alone.

Exact concept: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivities. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2007-01-01 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Selected filing history

Related financial histories

• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: total assets
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: stockholders equity
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: cash and cash equivalents
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: net income or loss
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: operating cash flow
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: capital expenditure payments
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: contract revenue excluding tax
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: financing cash flow
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: retained earnings or deficit
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: basic weighted-average shares
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: diluted weighted-average shares
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: basic earnings per share
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: diluted earnings per share
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: income tax expense or benefit
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: net property, plant and equipment
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: share-based compensation expense
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: operating income or loss
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: current assets
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: interest expense
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: current liabilities
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: goodwill carrying amount
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: net finite-lived intangible assets
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: net current accounts receivable
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: common-stock repurchase payments
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: net inventory
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: gross profit
• W.W. Grainger, Inc.: selling, general and administrative expense

Inspect the source

Entity

W.W. Grainger, Inc. / CIK 0000277135

Captured

2026-09-19T14:55:36.432Z

SEC response SHA-256

8d3ec595bc350ee93c25f411d8403337bf3535f81f761009d232be61774bb52b

Current SEC company facts · Download the original response snapshot (gzip) · Download the selected JSON

Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

Use this in research

A financial period ends before its results become public. Use the filing date as a minimum availability boundary, inspect amendments, and retain the original filing vintage when testing historical signals. This latest-filed selection can contain information unavailable at the time.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000277135.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))