SHWSherwin-Williams
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though priced for +8% a year vs +2% a year delivered.
Priced for ~8% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 2% a year, priced for acceleration.
In its normal range: P/E 29.4 vs a 30.7 median over 41 quarters (−4% vs median).
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What SHW's price assumes
Sherwin-Williams trades at 29.4× earnings against 29.4× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 29.4 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 3.24
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.1%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 4.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +8.4%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +8.4% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +22% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 20.5
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 3.72
- Basic Materials median P/E203 names
- 20.7
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E43 names
- 29.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.21B
- Market capitalisation
- $79.1B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.1%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +22%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $289.85 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $333.13 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $362.72 |
| 52-week range | $293.00 – $370.82 |
| Today | $319.37 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Chemicals
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