---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000089800-24-000082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHW"
cik: "0000089800"
company_name: "SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO"
filed_at: "2024-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T15:03:43.864709+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sherwin-Williams annual meeting results: all directors elected, say-on-pay approved, simple majority vote adopted

## Summary
- Elected 11 directors; Heidi G. Petz received 199.2M votes for, highest support; all nominees had >88% support excluding broker non-votes.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 182.95M for, 16.74M against, 1.32M abstentions.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as auditor for 2024: 207.72M for, 14.95M against, 0.64M abstentions.
- Shareholder proposal to adopt simple majority vote passed with 142.18M for, 56.74M against, 2.09M abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000089800-24-000082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHW
- cik: 0000089800
- company_name: SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO
- filed_at: 2024-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980024000082/0000089800-24-000082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980024000082/shw-20240417.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO shareholders approved Election of 11 nominees as directors at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Proposal 1 . The shareholders elected the following 11 nominees as directors of Sherwin-Williams to serve until the next Annual Meeting and until their successors are elected.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980024000082/0000089800-24-000082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO shareholders approved Advisory approval of named executive officer compensation at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Proposal 2 . The shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980024000082/0000089800-24-000082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO shareholders approved Shareholder proposal to adopt a simple majority vote at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Proposal 4 . The shareholders approved a shareholder proposal to adopt a simple majority vote.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980024000082/0000089800-24-000082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor for 2024 at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Proposal 3 . The shareholders approved the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as Sherwin-Williams' independent registered public accounting firm for 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980024000082/0000089800-24-000082-index.htm

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