The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) Stock

About The Sherwin-Williams Company

The Sherwin-Williams Company engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, and sale of paint, coatings, and related products to professional, industrial, commercial and retail customers. The company operates through three segments: Paint Stores Group, Consumer Brands Group, and Performance Coatings Group. The Paint Stores Group segment offers architectural paint and coatings; protective and marine products; and OEM product finishes and related products for architectural and industrial paint contractors, and do-it-yourself homeowners under the Sherwin-Williams brand. The Consumer Brands Group segment supplies a portfolio of branded and private-label architectural paints, stains, varnishes, industrial products, wood finishes products, wood preservatives, applicators, corrosion inhibitors, aerosols, caulks, and adhesives to retailers, including home centers and hardware stores, and dedicated dealers and distributors. The Performance Coatings Group segment develops and sells industrial coatings for wood finishing and general industrial applications; automotive refinish products; protective and marine coatings; coil coatings; packaging coatings; and performance-based resins and colorants. This segment serves retailers, dealers, jobbers, licensees, and other third-party distributors. The company operates in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The Sherwin-Williams Company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Sherwin-Williams Company is led by CEO Heidi G. Petz, employs 63,890 people, headquartered in Cleveland, US, publicly traded since 1980.

The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) stock trades at $343.88 with a market capitalization of $84.81B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.48, price-to-book of 17.56, price-to-sales of 3.27. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $289.86 and $379.65, and currently trades 9.4% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.00%.

On profitability, The Sherwin-Williams Company generates a return on equity (ROE) of 60.72% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 82.74%, an operating margin of 14.16%, a net profit margin of 10.86%.

In its most recent fiscal year, The Sherwin-Williams Company reported annual revenue of $23.6B, net profit of $2.6B, revenue has compounded at 5.1% a year over the last five years, profit at 4.8% a year.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.11 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 0.86, total assets of $25.9B, $207.0M in cash and equivalents.

SHW has an average daily trading volume of 2,392,700 shares, a beta of 1.13.

Official website: www.sherwin-williams.com