The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW)

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The Sherwin-Williams Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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The Sherwin-Williams Company's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $15 billion in fiscal 2017 to $24 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.8% a year; it rose in 8 of 8 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, The Sherwin-Williams Company's diluted share count shrank about 1.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 21% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 9 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, The Sherwin-Williams Company earned about 56 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 44 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 82 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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The Sherwin-Williams Company's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $24 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of 10.9% ranks in the top 14%; revenue growth of 2.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 41% (its annual reports).

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The Sherwin-Williams Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Petz, Heidi G (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-02-20, 2.7 years (bottom 28% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.6 years (bottom 28%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 17%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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The Sherwin-Williams Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $207 million against debt of $9.3 billion leaves -35.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 32% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11.3% of revenue (top 14%); a gross margin of 48.8% (top 5%) (its annual report).

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The Sherwin-Williams Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.1% a year over the last three filed years against 5.8% over all 9, slowing (top 23% of its family); the newest year grew 2.1% (bottom 41%); research spending grew -3.4% a year (top 25%); capital spending grew 7.4% a year (top 25%) (its annual reports). The Sherwin-Williams Company reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Paint Stores Group at $14 billion (58%), Performance Coatings Group at $6.8 billion (29%), Consumer Brands Group at $3.2 billion (13%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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The Sherwin-Williams Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $24 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.1% below the $24 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 23% of its family); net income of $2.6 billion against a prior three-year average of $2.4 billion (top 32%); a net margin of 10.9% against 10.4% before (top 23%) (its annual reports).