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Sherwin Williams (SHW) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Sherwin Williams (SHW) has 14 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.31% in Q3 2022.

  • For Q3 2022, Return on Sales fell 11.0% year-over-year to 0.31%; the TTM value through Sep 2022 reached 0.31%, down 14.0%, while the annual FY2021 figure was 0.09%, N/A changed from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.31% in Q3 2022 per SHW's latest filing, down from 0.36% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.48% in Q2 2020 and bottomed at 0.31% in Q4 2021.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.42%, with a median of 0.43% recorded in 2019.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: grew 5bps in 2019, then fell -11bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.41% in 2018, then increased by 11bps to 0.46% in 2019, then grew by 4bps to 0.48% in 2020, then plummeted by -35bps to 0.31% in 2021, then changed by 0bps to 0.31% in 2022.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.31% in Q3 2022, 0.36% in Q2 2022, and 0.39% in Q1 2022.