GWW
W.W. Grainger Inc.
Is GWW Halal?
Industrial MRO distribution is generally permissible; product mix and methodology differences require continuing review.
What You Should Know
W.W. Grainger's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports debt/assets of 25.45%, cash/assets of 7.34% and receivables plus cash/assets of 35.07%. Grainger distributes maintenance, repair and operating products through its North American and Japanese businesses. The filing reports customer industries including manufacturing and government, but says product-category sales are impractical to disclose because the assortment changes frequently. Malaysia SAC financial ratios pass, the examined MSCI total-assets receivables test fails, and gross interest income is not separately disclosed.
⚠️ Concerns
- •MSCI total-assets receivables plus cash is 35.07%, above its examined 33.33% limit
- •Gross interest income is not separately disclosed, leaving the FTSE income screen incomplete
- •Dynamic product assortment and government/defense-facility customers require continuing qualitative review
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.
2,411 / 9,473
695 / 9,473
3,322 / 9,473
- Financial
- Incomplete
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt is 25.45%, cash is 7.34% and receivables plus cash are 35.07%, below the examined FTSE asset limits; gross non-compliant income is not separately disclosed, so the FTSE income input remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 25.45% and liquidity is 7.34%, but receivables plus cash are 35.07%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit of 33.33%. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt is 25.45% and liquidity is 7.34%, below the examined Malaysia SAC financial limits. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security; product-level business revenue remains unavailable.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
W.W. Grainger is a broad-line distributor of maintenance, repair and operating products and services, primarily in North America and Japan. Tools, safety equipment, industrial supplies and facility products are generally permissible commerce, while a dynamic assortment and customer end use require continuing review.
Limitation: The filing says product-category sales are impractical to provide because inventory changes frequently and online assortment is dynamic. It reports customer industries, including 15% government and 30% manufacturing, but does not establish a universally accepted prohibited-revenue numerator.
Purification
Grainger reports net interest expense but does not separately disclose gross interest income or prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the qualified scholar or methodology they use rather than applying an invented fixed rate.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Inputs use W.W. Grainger's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q; amounts are USD millions as presented in the filing.
- Debt uses the reported $2,411 million total debt, including $2,409 million of long-term debt and $2 million of current maturities. Operating lease liabilities are not entered as conventional debt.
- Cash uses $695 million of cash and cash equivalents. The filing does not provide a separately identified fixed-income securities balance for this screen, so no securities amount is added.
- Receivables use the reported $2,627 million accounts receivable balance.
- Quarterly net sales are $4,742 million. The filing reports net interest expense but does not separately disclose gross non-compliant or interest income, so the FTSE income input is unavailable.
- Grainger states that its dynamic MRO assortment makes product-category sales impractical to disclose; no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is estimated.
This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.
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