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GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL Co (GIC)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL Co. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

About GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL Co

Global Industrial Company is a distributor of industrial equipment and maintenance, repair, and operation products in North America. It sells a wide range of branded and private label products through e-commerce websites and relationship marketers, serving business customers including government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. The company focuses on customer-specific sales strategies, extensive product offerings, and multi-channel marketing to support its business-to-business clientele.

Snapshot

Revenue
$1.38B
Revenue growth (YoY)
4.8%
Net income
$72.1M
Diluted EPS
$1.85
Gross margin
35.5%
Operating margin
7.1%
Net margin
5.2%
FCF margin
5.4%
ROE
23.0%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
19.3×
trailing when available, otherwise FY EPS
Market cap
$1.64B
Long-term debt / equity
—
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL

  • Revenue grew 4.8% to $1.4B in FY2025, in line with the 3.3% the year before.
  • Operating margin is 7.1% in FY2025, -1.2 pp against 8.3% in FY2021.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $387M, up 7.7% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was $75M in FY2025, 5.4% of revenue.
  • Net income rose 18.2% to $72M in FY2025.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL’s fundamentals sit among the 669 Industrials companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Gross margin35.5%
65th percentile of 456
Operating margin7.1%
56th percentile of 599
Net margin5.2%
58th percentile of 631
FCF margin5.4%
52nd percentile of 547
Revenue growth (YoY)+4.8%
51st percentile of 653
ROE23.0%
86th percentile of 591
P/E19.3×
39th percentile of 406
Short interest3.54d
54th percentile of 662

GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL’s return on equity of 23.0% ranks in the 86th percentile of the 591 Industrials companies reporting it.

1 reported insider purchase (code P) totaling $580 in the last 90 days, against 6 sales totaling $1.0M. For context, about 15% of companies in the universe saw any reported insider purchase (code P) in the same window. Browse insider activity →

Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 6 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.

Conviction investors
0
+6 quant / multi-strat
Initiated / added
1
0 new, 1 added
Reduced / exited
6
5 trimmed, 1 exited
Combined position
$27.5M
reported long value
InvestorAs ofPosition valueSharesChange
Renaissance TechnologiesquantQ2 2026$10.1M303.3KReduced
Two Sigma InvestmentsquantQ2 2026$4.3M129.9KReduced
AQR Capital ManagementquantQ2 2026$4.1M123.9KAdded
Citadel AdvisorsquantQ2 2026$3.3M97.7KReduced
D. E. ShawquantQ2 2026$3.1M91.6KReduced
Millennium ManagementquantQ2 2026$2.5M75.6KReduced

No longer held by: Point72 Asset Management (as of Q2 2026)

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Recent insider activity

Non-derivative buys and sells (codes P/S) reported by officers, directors and 10% owners on SEC Form 4.

Buys (90d)
1
1 insider
Bought (90d)
$580
code P value
Sells (90d)
6
$1.0M
Reported activity
Net selling
by $ value, 90d
Trade dateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue
2026-08-28
filed 2026-08-31
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerSell2.9K$39.64$116K
2026-08-28
filed 2026-08-31
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerSell1.8K$40.00$73K
2026-08-27
filed 2026-08-31
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerSell1.7K$38.22$66K
2026-08-24
filed 2026-09-11
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerBuy15$38.67$580
2026-08-13
filed 2026-08-14
Thomas AxmacherVP & ControllerSell952$39.10$37K
2026-08-06
filed 2026-08-10
Thomas Eugene ClarkSVP & Chief Financial OfficerSell17.5K$39.14$685K
2026-08-06
filed 2026-08-10
Thomas AxmacherVP & ControllerSell1.8K$38.60$71K
2026-05-26
filed 2026-09-11
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerBuy16$29.48$472
2026-03-16
filed 2026-09-11
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerBuy15$30.53$458
2025-11-17
filed 2026-09-11
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerBuy16$26.80$429
2025-08-18
filed 2026-09-11
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerBuy12$34.85$418
2025-05-19
filed 2026-09-11
Claudia HughesSVP & Chief Sales OfficerBuy15$27.22$408

Reported non-derivative purchases and sales (codes P/S), which may be open-market or private. Excludes option exercises, grants, and shares withheld for taxes. Dates shown are the trade date; a Form 4 can be filed days to years later. A sale can be routine (e.g. a pre-set 10b5-1 plan), so read individual transactions in context. From SEC Form 4. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
633.0K
settled 2026-09-30
Change vs prior
+1.7%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
3.54
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
178.6K
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-09-30633.0K+1.7%3.54
2026-09-15622.2K+0.4%5.58
2026-08-31619.8K+22.9%5.20
2026-08-14504.3K-10.3%3.10
2026-07-31562.2K-13.6%5.73
2026-07-15650.7K+17.0%5.92
2026-06-30556.3K+72.9%2.56
2026-06-15321.8K+2.4%4.77

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Revenue$1.38B$1.32B$1.27B$1.17B$1.06B
Gross profit
Operating income$97.6M$80.5M$96.5M$105.2M$88.0M
Net income$72.1M$61.0M$70.7M$78.8M$103.3M
Diluted EPS$1.85$1.58$1.84$2.06$2.71

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Cash and equivalents$67.5M$44.6M$34.4M$28.5M$15.4M
Current assets$396.5M$352.6M$329.8M$325.7M$301.4M
Total assets$580.8M$520.7M$513.4M$455.2M$405.0M
Current liabilities$178.5M$168.4M$174.2M$153.1M$179.9M
Long-term debt—————
Total liabilities$267.6M$239.6M$258.2M$244.8M$251.4M
Total equity$313.2M$281.1M$255.2M$210.4M$153.6M

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Operating cash flow$77.8M$50.7M$112.0M$50.2M$49.8M
Capital expenditure$3.1M$3.8M$3.9M$7.4M$3.4M
Free cash flow

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$386.6M7.7%$37.1M$0.96
Q1 FY2026$350.4M9.2%$16.6M$0.42
Q4 FY202514.3%
Q3 FY2025$353.6M3.3%$18.8M$0.48
Q2 FY2025$358.9M3.2%$25.1M$0.65
Q1 FY2025$321.0M-0.7%$13.6M$0.35
Q4 FY2024-5.6%
Q3 FY2024$342.4M-3.4%$16.8M$0.44

Latest 8 quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. A dotted underline marks a fourth-quarter figure we calculated from the full year and the first nine months. Revenue YoY is our calculation too: each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier.

Company facts

ExchangeNYSE
SectorIndustrials
SIC industryWholesale-Industrial Machinery & Equipment
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended December 31, 2025)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended June 30, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2006
SEC CIK945114

Selected SEC filings

10-K2026-02-27
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10-Q2026-08-04
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10-Q2026-05-05
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8-K2026-08-04
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8-K2026-07-07
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8-K2026-06-03
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8-K2026-05-05
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.