---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000089800-25-000083"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHW"
cik: "0000089800"
company_name: "SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO"
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T04:33:17.817283+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sherwin-Williams Q1 sales -1.1% to $5.31B; adj. EPS +3.7% to $2.25; FY guidance reaffirmed

## Summary
- Consolidated net sales $5.31B (-1.1% YoY); GAAP diluted EPS $2.00 (+1.5%); adj. diluted EPS $2.25 (+3.7%).
- Paint Stores Group sales +2.3% (same-store +1.2%); segment profit +9.7% to $541.2M; margin expanded to 18.4%.
- Consumer Brands sales -6.0% to $762.2M; adj. margin +40bps to 21.3%. Performance Coatings sales -4.8% to $1.60B; adj. margin -60bps to 16.5%.
- FY2025 adj. EPS guidance reaffirmed $11.65-$12.05; Q2 net sales expected up/down low-single digit.
- Capital returns: $351.7M in share repurchases and a 10.5% dividend increase in Q1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000089800-25-000083
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHW
- cik: 0000089800
- company_name: SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980025000083/0000089800-25-000083-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980025000083/shw-20250429.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000089800-25-000083.txt

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