Sherwin-Williams Co (NYSE: SHW) on Tuesday, plunged -0.61% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $365.03. Within the past 52 weeks, SHW’s price has moved between $282.09 and $400.42.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Basic Materials sector was 5.68%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 9.53%. With a float of $231.13 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $251.90 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 64088 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 48.46%, operating margin of 16.43%, and the pretax margin is 14.36%.
Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Specialty Chemicals industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Sherwin-Williams Co is 8.23%, while institutional ownership is 79.38%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 26 ’24, was worth 6,275,198. In this transaction SVP – CLO and Secretary of this company sold 15,770 shares at a rate of $397.92, taking the stock ownership to the 29,205 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 25 ’24, when Company’s SVP – Enterprise Finance sold 5,161 for $398.06, making the entire transaction worth $2,054,388. This insider now owns 16,816 shares in total.
Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.33 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.53% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.28% during the next five years compared to 18.91% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Sherwin-Williams Co (NYSE: SHW) Trading Performance Indicators
Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.51 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.96. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 44.62.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 10.04, a number that is poised to hit 2.07 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.77 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.64 million, its volume of 1.28 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 4.96%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.58.
During the past 100 days, Sherwin-Williams Co’s (SHW) raw stochastic average was set at 41.48%, which indicates a significant increase from 0.90% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 12.03% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 19.84% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $378.41, while its 200-day Moving Average is $343.71. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $366.73 in the near term. At $370.68, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $372.77. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $360.69, it is likely to go to the next support level at $358.60. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $354.65.
Sherwin-Williams Co (NYSE: SHW) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 91.37 billion based on 251,853K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 23,052 M and income totals 2,389 M. The company made 6,163 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 806,200 K in sales during its previous quarter.
