---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000089800-25-000124"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHW"
cik: "0000089800"
company_name: "SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO"
filed_at: "2025-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:06:03.271521+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sherwin-Williams Q3 net sales +3.2% to $6.36B, adj. EPS $3.59; narrows FY25 guidance

## Summary
- Diluted GAAP EPS $3.35 vs $3.18 YoY (+5.3%); adjusted EPS $3.59 vs $3.37 (+6.5%).
- Paint Stores Group sales +5.1% (same-store +3.6%); Consumer Brands -2.6%; Performance Coatings +1.7%.
- Full-year GAAP EPS guidance narrowed to $10.16-$10.36; adjusted EPS $11.25-$11.45 (vs $11.33 prior).
- Returned $864M to shareholders in Q3 via buybacks and dividends; 4.5M shares repurchased YTD.
- Suvinil acquisition closed Oct 1; expected to add low-single-digit % to Q4 sales, immaterial to EPS.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000089800-25-000124
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHW
- cik: 0000089800
- company_name: SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO
- filed_at: 2025-10-28T23:59:59+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/89800/000008980025000124/0000089800-25-000124-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980025000124/shw-20251028.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000089800-25-000124
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000089800-25-000124.txt

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