What if I had invested? › W. W. Grainger
$1,000 in W. W. Grainger in 1973
$1,000 put into W. W. Grainger (GWW) on January 2, 1973, its first trading day of 1973 in our data, was worth $644,323 on September 23, 2026, with dividends counted to the end of 2024. Over the same days to July 31, 2026, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $280,529.
Bought at the close on January 2, 1973, dividends put back in, no costs and no tax. Dividends are counted to the end of 2024; from 2025 on our prices are adjusted for splits only, so dividends paid since then are left out. The stock figure counts dividends; the S&P 500 index figure does not, so compare the stock with the whole-market figure. The market figure is the Fama-French US market return (Kenneth R. French data library), which runs to July 31, 2026. Our stock prices run to September 23, 2026.
Another stock, another year
W. W. Grainger in: 1971 · 1972 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013
Also in 1973
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $1,039,243
- Walmart · $1,000 became $8,959,228
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $469,474
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $1,397,810
- ExxonMobil · $1,000 became $594,009
- Johnson & Johnson · $1,000 became $326,743
- Intel · $1,000 became $5,212,585
- GE Aerospace · $1,000 became $196,325
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.