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Sherwin Williams (SHW) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Sherwin Williams (SHW) has 12 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.57% in Q4 2021.

  • For Q4 2021, Return on Capital Employed changed N/A year-over-year to 0.57%; the TTM value through Dec 2021 reached 0.57%, changed N/A, while the annual FY2019 figure was 0.53%, 4.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.57% in Q4 2021 per SHW's latest filing, down from 0.64% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 1.53% in Q1 2017 and bottomed at 0.39% in Q3 2017.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.57%, with a median of 0.51% recorded in 2020.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: crashed -108bps in 2018, then increased 13bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.41% in 2017, then rose by 19bps to 0.49% in 2018, then grew by 2bps to 0.5% in 2019, then increased by 4bps to 0.52% in 2020, then grew by 10bps to 0.57% in 2021.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.57% in Q4 2021, 0.64% in Q3 2021, and 0.64% in Q2 2021.