Is W.W. Grainger (NYSE:GWW) Using Too Much Debt? [Yahoo! Finance]

W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW)
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So it might be obvious that you need to consider debt, when you think about how risky any given stock is, because too much debt can sink a company. We can see that W.W. Grainger, Inc. NYSE:GWW ) does use debt in its business. But should shareholders be worried about its use of debt? Generally speaking, debt only becomes a real problem when a company can't easily pay it off, either by raising capital or with its own cash flow. Ultimately, if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt, shareholders could walk away with nothing. While that is not too common, we often do see indebted companies permanently diluting shareholders because lenders force them to raise capital at a distressed price. Of course, the upside of debt is that
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