Is the price fair?
What SHW's price assumes
Sherwin-Williams trades at 32.1× earnings against 28.3× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.
32.1
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 28.3 · 1.14× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.31
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.1%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 3.9%
- 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.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 17.9
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 3.69
- Basic Materials median P/E153 names
- 22.8
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E37 names
- 28.3
- 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 | $112.90 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $307.76 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $356.69 |
| 52-week range | $293.00 – $372.56 |
| Today | $348.59 |
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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