HOME DEPOT, INC. vs THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY, two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Home Depot and Sherwin-Williams both live off home improvement, and they sit right next to each other on the shelf. Home Depot, at $346.7B, keeps 8.41% of sales; Sherwin-Williams, at $85.4B, keeps 10.86% selling the paint that fills many of those projects. The difference in balance sheets is stark: Home Depot runs 0.25 debt to equity, Sherwin a heavy 2.64. Home Depot trades cheaper, 24.72 times earnings against 33.05, and pays the larger dividend, 2.64% versus 0.92%. Free cash yields land close, 4.13% and 3.4%. The big-box store sells the whole project; the paint maker sells one product on repeat.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | HD | SHW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $343.37 | $334.01 |
| Market cap | $342.0B | $82.9B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +8.2% | +10.9% |
| P/E | 24.4 | 32.1 |
| P/B | 24.65 | 18.70 |
| P/S | 2.05 | 3.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.2 | 263.0 |
| Revenue growth | +2.2% | +4.1% |
| Gross margin | 33.0% | 49.1% |
| Operating margin | 11.9% | — |
| Net margin | 8.4% | 10.9% |
| Return on equity | 101.0% | 58.7% |
| Return on assets | 13.0% | 9.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 89.7% | — |
| FCF yield | 4.2% | 3.5% |
| Dividend yield | 2.7% | 0.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.25 | 2.64 |
| Current ratio | 1.04 | 0.86 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.14 | 6.93 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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