Graco Inc. (GGG)

Fluid handling equipment maker, 4,400, 57% U.S. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 26, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 92 of the 222 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,400 employees, 1,900 abroad and 1,200 hourly U.S. factory workers, in one fluid handling equipment business, so one machinery pattern carries the workforce.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 19% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 47% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 62% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 30% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,400 employees as of December 26, 2025 (stated). The filing states 1,900 of 4,400 employees based outside the U.S., leaving about 2,500 in it.

The filing: “As of December 26, 2025, we employed approximately 4,400 persons. Of this total, approximately 1,900 were employees based outside of the U.S., and 1,200 were hourly factory workers in the U.S.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,400 employees, 1,900 outside the U.S. and 1,200 hourly factory workers in the U.S.; no U.S. collective bargaining, with national industry agreements abroad; manufacturing, product development, warehouse and administrative employees share the same facilities; average tenure nearly 11 years.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Caterpillar Inc. (CAT, 118,000 employees)18% now, 37% by 2028
• Deere & Company (DE, 73,100 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH, 59,850 employees)18% now, 38% by 2028
• Carrier Global Corporation (CARR, 47,000 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
• Trane Technologies plc (TT, 44,000 employees)18% now, 33% by 2028
• Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SWK, 43,500 employees)19% now, 34% by 2028
• Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW, 43,000 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
• Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT, 36,500 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names generative AI among the technologies whose use in its business risks the loss of confidential information, and AI-leveraged cyberattacks among growing threats.

• “The tactics and capabilities of cybercriminals are growing increasingly sophisticated, and they will continue to evolve in their sophistication as artificial intelligence is leveraged to perpetrate cyberattacks.”
• “Generative Artificial Intelligence ("AI") - Use of generative AI technologies in the conduct of our business could result in the unintentional loss of confidential or proprietary information and have other adverse impacts on us.”
• “The development and adoption of generative AI technologies are rapidly evolving, and the increased use of these technologies in the conduct of our business poses risks which, if they materialize, could adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operation and reputation.”
• “The deployment of generative AI tools creates opportunities for the potential loss or misuse of personal data, the inadvertent dissemination of our confidential or proprietary information, or the unintentional use of third parties' intellectual property.”
• “In addition, the content, analyses, recommendations or other output that generative AI tools produce could be deficient, inaccurate or biased or be based on flawed or insufficient datasets.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20235median 1
• Fiscal 20245median 4
• Fiscal 20257median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000042888-26-000081, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.