The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Sherwin-Williams Co (NYSE: SHW)

Sherwin-Williams Co (NYSE:SHW) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.91M but it saw 1211664 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 88.45B USD, the company’s current market price of $352.94 came falling about -0.28 while comparing to the previous closing price of $353.94. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $400.42 and as low as $282.09.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Jefferies which downgraded the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on March 10, 2025, recommending a price target of between $423 and $380 for it. Berenberg issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $321 and $420.

Over the week, SHW’s stock price is moving -2.35% down while it is 6.55% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 3.83% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 14.07%.

Currently, Sherwin-Williams Co’s total number of outstanding shares is 250.60M with 7.14% of that held by the insiders while 82.53% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 19.81% and return on equity (ROE) at 70.22%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 33.40 while having a 26.54 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.21. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 21.42 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.84. Its return on asset (ROA) is 11.15% on average.