SHW Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Sherwin-Williams Company | NYSE:SHW)

Sherwin-Williams is the largest global manufacturer of paints and coatings. The company focuses on the development, manufacturing, and distribution of paint, coatings, and related products to customers ranging from professional painters and contractors to industrial manufacturers to do-it-yourself consumers. Sherwin organizes its operations into three primary segments: the paint stores group is the largest segment and includes the company's network of over 4,800 company-owned stores; the consumer brands group sells branded architectural paints through big-box retailers such as Lowe's, and the performance coatings group provides specialized coatings for industrial applications, such as automotive refinishing, packaging, and industrial wood.

Sherwin-Williams Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SHW.

As of July 28, 2026, SHW stock price climbed to $354.27 with 3,350,947 million shares trading.

SHW has a beta of 0.45, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SHW has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SHW has a market cap of $87.38 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Sherwin-Williams Company reported $6 billion in Revenue and $2.35 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $104 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.09.

In the last 3 years, SHW traded as high as $400.42 and as low as $232.06.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SHW belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, DIA, IVV, SPY.

SHW has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +5.1%, while SPY returned +17.5%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in SHW shares. However, SHW has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +5.6% and +7.7%, while SPY returned +3.9% and -1.1%, respectively. This indicates SHW has been having a stronger performance recently.

SHW support price is $320.95 and resistance is $333.59 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SHW shares will trade within this expected range on the day.