The Sherwin-Williams Company

The Sherwin-Williams Company develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells paints, coatings, and related products to professional, industrial, commercial, and retail customers. It operates through three segments: The Americas Group, Consumer Brands Group, and Performance Coatings Group. The Americas Group segment offers architectural paints and coatings, and protective and marine products, as well as OEM product finishes and related products for architectural and industrial paint contractors, and do-it-yourself homeowners. 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 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. It serves retailers, dealers, jobbers, licensees, and other third-party distributors through its branches and direct sales staff, as well as through outside sales representatives. The company has operations primarily in the North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Australia. As of February 17, 2022, it operated approximately 5,000 company-operated stores and facilities. The Sherwin-Williams Company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Sherwin-Williams Company trades as SHW on NYSE. The company is classified in Basic Materials / Chemicals - Specialty and reports in USD.

The current profile places the business in Chemicals - Specialty. This section is intended to summarize the operating segments, products, geographies, and main revenue lines from official filings.

Latest available fiscal data shows $23.57B of revenue and $2.57B of net income.

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The Sherwin-Williams Company can be compared against peers such as Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., BHP Group Limited, CRH plc, Ecolab Inc., Freeport-McMoRan Inc..

A complete thesis should compare growth, margins, balance-sheet risk, valuation multiples, and market position against direct competitors.

Current signals to investigate include market capitalization of $75.30B, beta of 1.13, and return on equity of +55.9%.

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Key risks should include financial leverage, cyclicality, customer concentration, regulatory exposure, currency risk, and execution risk.

SHW currently shows total debt of $14.53B and beta of 1.13. Missing data should be treated as a research gap, not as low risk.

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Recent filings to review: SD (2026-05-20 00:00:00), SC 13G (2026-04-30 00:00:00), 10-Q (2026-04-28 00:00:00), 8-K (2026-04-28 00:00:00).

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Company website: https://www.sherwin-williams.com

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