THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY
At today's price, THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY (SHW) is priced for +9.3% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Sherwin-Williams sells most of its paint through a store network it owns, not through someone else's shelf: the Paint Stores Group ran 4,853 company-operated stores in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean at the end of 2025 and earned a 22.3% pre-tax margin, against 9.2% for the consumer-brands arm and 14.5% for performance coatings. • The price assumes the whole company compounds operating profit at roughly 9.6% a year for five years, and none of the standard valuation families reaches
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1,643 institutional managers reported holding SHW in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 78% of the company; the top 10 hold 36%. 109 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 9.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
SHW has cut its share count 6.5% over the past five years, spending $7.39B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 15 years straight; the current rate is $3.16 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.02B in dividends and $4.87B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at SHW over the trailing three years: 2023: 2 buys totaling $505k. 25 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
SHW's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-26 | +4.8% | -10.8% |
| 2023-10-25 | -0.0% | +31.3% |
| 2024-02-21 | +0.3% | -3.4% |
| 2024-05-01 | -1.8% | -2.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
SHW's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-09 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-24 (items 5.07); 2026-02-09 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-01-29 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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