TacticScaleWhat Graco Does & How It Makes Money (GGG)
Updated October 2026 · reflects Graco's latest reported financials
Maker of fluid and powder handling, spraying and dispensing equipment. Graco earns revenue by designing, manufacturing and selling fluid- and powder-handling equipment, systems, components and accessories to contractors and industrial customers across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
How Graco makes money
Graco earns revenue by designing, manufacturing and selling fluid- and powder-handling equipment, systems, components and accessories to contractors and industrial customers across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Sales are reported in three segments: Contractor, Industrial and Expansion Markets.
What Graco does
Graco Inc., founded in 1926 and based in Minneapolis, makes equipment that moves, measures, mixes, controls, dispenses and sprays fluid and powder materials, and sells it worldwide. The Contractor segment supplies paint sprayers, foam and polyurea proportioning systems, and equipment for applying roof coatings and marking roads, parking lots, athletic fields and floors, along with volumetric and gravimetric dispense, mixing and shaking equipment. The Industrial segment serves factories and service shops with liquid finishing and advanced dispensing equipment, pumps for chemicals, petroleum and food, automatic lubrication systems, vehicle-servicing equipment and powder finishing systems. The Expansion Markets segment covers niche areas: pumps for semiconductor manufacturing, high- and ultra-high-pressure valves for oil and gas, and equipment for groundwater sampling, remediation and landfill liquid and gas management.
Products & services
- Paint sprayers for walls and structures
- Polyurethane foam and polyurea proportioning systems
- Line-marking equipment for roads, parking lots and athletic fields
- Industrial pumps for chemicals, petroleum and food
- Automatic lubrication systems for bearings, gears and generators
- Powder finishing systems
What is Graco worth?
On an owner-earnings DCF, Graco's most-likely value is about $85 versus a recent price near $78 (9% below fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$39) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.
Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.
Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →
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