Sherwin-Williams Company (The) (SHW) Stock Analysis
Falling Knife setup
Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
Sell if holding. Momentum 1.8/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $303.00 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5; Sector modifier (Basic Materials): -0.1.
Sherwin-Williams manufactures and sells paint, coatings, and related products through its Paint Stores Group (4,853 company-operated stores), Consumer Brands Group, and Performance Coatings Group, serving customers in 120+ countries. Foreign subsidiaries contributed ~19.6% of... Read more
Sell if holding. Momentum 1.8/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $303.00 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5; Sector modifier (Basic Materials): -0.1. Chart setup: Death cross, below all MAs, RSI 34, MACD bearish. Score 5.1/10, high confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 62d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: moderate.
Recent Developments — Sherwin-Williams Company (The)
Latest news
- Sherwin-Williams Declares Dividend of $0.80 per Common Share - PR Newswire — PR Newswire positive
- Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) – Downgrade, Insider Selling Trigger Reassessment of Quality Investment Thesis - Expansio — Cổng thông tin điện tử Tỉnh Sơn La negative
- The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) - Pre-Earnings Analysis: Modest Growth Expected, Low Probability of Positive EPS Surp — UBND thành phố Hải Phòng neutral
- Wells Fargo Adjusts Sherwin-Williams (SHW) Outlook to Equal Weight - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance negative
- Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) Price Target Cut to $365.00 by Analysts at Bank of America - MarketBeat — MarketBeat negative
Generated 2026-05-20T21:06:21Z.
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Rating Breakdown
2 floor-breakers
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
Growth below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Momentum 1.8/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $303.00 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5; Sector modifier (Basic Materials): -0.1. Chart setup: Death cross, below all MAs, RSI 34, MACD bearish. Prior stop was $291.05. Score 5.1/10, high confidence.
Take-profit target: $343.31 (+13.4% upside). Prior stop was $291.05. Stop-loss: $291.05.
Sector modifier (Basic Materials): -0.1; Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5; Weak growth.
Sherwin-Williams Company (The) trades at a P/E of 29.1 (forward 22.8). TrendMatrix value score: 4.8/10. Verdict: Sell.
31 analysts cover SHW with a consensus score of 3.7/5. Average price target: $381.
What does Sherwin-Williams Company (The) do?Sherwin-Williams manufactures and sells paint, coatings, and related products through its Paint Stores Group (4,853...
Sherwin-Williams manufactures and sells paint, coatings, and related products through its Paint Stores Group (4,853 company-operated stores), Consumer Brands Group, and Performance Coatings Group, serving customers in 120+ countries. Foreign subsidiaries contributed ~19.6% of consolidated net sales in 2025; no individual customer exceeded 10% of sales. In Oct 2025, the company completed the ~$525M acquisition of Suvinil in Brazil.