W.W. Grainger Inc. Stock Rises Friday, Outperforms Market

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Ashland Inc. is a global additives and specialty ingredients company. It serves customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, food and beverage, nutraceuticals, personal care and pharmaceuticals. Its segments include life sciences, personal care, specialty additives, and intermediates. The life sciences segment includes pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and nutrition, and diagnostic films and agricultural chemicals. The personal care segment skin and sun care, hair care, oral care, home care, and others. The specialty additives segment includes coatings, construction, and energy. The intermediates segment produces and supplies butanediol (BDO), Tetrahydrofuran (THF), n-methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL, BLO) in addition to other downstream products. Its products include acrylates, aquaflow, biofunctionals, cellulosics, cyclodextrins, encapsulates, emollient esters, emulsifiers, and others.

W.W. Grainger Inc. Stock Rises Friday, Outperforms Market

4:58 pm ET January 27, 2023 (MarketWatch) Print

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Shares of W.W. Grainger Inc. (GWW) rose 1.21% to $571.79 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 0.25% to 4,070.56 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.08% to 33,978.08. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. W.W. Grainger Inc. closed $40.27 short of its 52-week high ($612.06), which the company reached on November 10th.

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) rose 3.04% to $102.24, Home Depot Inc. (HD) rose 0.92% to $316.69, and Lowe's Cos. (LOW) rose 0.34% to $202.49. Trading volume (158,757) remained 116,248 below its 50-day average volume of 275,005.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled Janurary 27, 2023.

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January 27, 2023 16:58 ET (21:58 GMT)