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The Sherwin-Williams Company
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
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3 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Stable quality
Profitability
3/4
Debt & liquidity
2/3
Efficiency
1/2
Capital returns at SHW run well ahead of the sector: ROE reaches 59.4%, against a sector median of 13.3%, placing it +348% above the peer group. FCF yield of 3.9% also outpaces the median by +172%, so the cash the business generates is real and measurable. The balance sheet, however, pulls in the opposite direction — Debt/EBITDA of 2.7× exceeds the sector median of 2.1× by +26%, and the current ratio of 0.87 sits -62% below the median of 2.29, leaving liquidity thin for a Materials company. P/B of 18.0× runs +303% above the sector median of 4.5×, a premium that the quality metrics partly justify but the stretched balance sheet complicates. Consensus models further earnings growth, yet the forward PEG reads as stretched and the beat record is mixed — the market's optimism has not been consistently validated by reported results.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APD | Air Products | 5/9 | -2% |
The market prices in earnings growth; analyst sentiment is steady; has mostly beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
When SHW reports on October 26, 2026, track revenue year over year alongside gross margin direction. The F-Score flags only 1/2 on efficiency, so watch whether asset turnover is recovering or slipping further relative to prior quarters.
SHW's current ratio sits 62% below the sector median at 2.29, pointing to tighter near-term liquidity. On SEC EDGAR, open the latest 10-K and read the Liquidity section of MD&A plus the debt maturity schedule to gauge how management plans to service obligations.
Pick two or three companies from the same-sector table in section 06 and line up one metric — P/B or FCF yield works well given SHW's P/B stands 4.0× above the sector median. No company in that table is ranked; the exercise is to see where SHW sits in the spread you choose.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: -32%+106%-21%+27%
Over 4 years: 2.621.882.592.70
Over 4 years: +11%+4%+0%+2%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 6 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| -1% |
| -7% |
| CTVA | Corteva | 7/9 | 5% | +3% | — |
| DD | DuPont | 5/9 | -4% | +2% | — |
| DOW | Dow Inc. | 3/9 | -15% | -7% | — |
| ECL | Ecolab | 5/9 | 22% | +2% | 17% |
| FCX | Freeport-McMoRan | 5/9 | 23% | +2% | 25% |
| LIN | Linde | 4/9 | 18% | +3% | 26% |
| MLM | Martin Marietta | 8/9 | 12% | +9% | 23% |
| NEM | Newmont | 8/9 | 22% | +21% | — |
| NUE | Nucor | 6/9 | 8% | +6% | — |
| PKG | Packaging Corp | 3/9 | 17% | +7% | 12% |
| PPG | PPG Industries | 6/9 | 21% | +0% | — |
| SHW | The Sherwin-Williams Company | 6/9 | 59% | +2% | — |
| STLD | Steel Dynamics | 5/9 | 13% | +4% | 8% |
| VMC | Vulcan Materials | 9/9 | 13% | +7% | 20% |
A sample of 15 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.