The Sherwin-Williams Company Q1 2026 Earnings Call Summary

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Moby Intelligence

Tue, April 28, 2026 astatine 11:51 AM CDT 3 min read

Management attributed the archetypal 4th income bushed to assertive caller relationship acquisition and share-of-wallet initiatives that offset persistent request softness successful halfway extremity markets.
The Paint Stores Group (PSG) achieved mid single-digit maturation driven by a January terms summation and double-digit show successful the protective and marine segment.
Performance Coatings Group (PCG) saw maturation crossed each divisions and regions, specifically citing high-teens maturation successful automotive refinish arsenic grounds of a beardown worth proposition winning caller business.
The institution is operating nether a 'jump ball' mentality, aggressively chasing quadrate footage and bidding enactment successful residential repaint and commercialized segments contempt double-digit declines successful marketplace completions.
Gross borderline enlargement of 90 ground points was supported by planetary proviso concatenation efficiencies and continuous betterment cultures, peculiarly wrong the Consumer Brands segment.
Management emphasized that implicit 80% of gross is sourced successful North America, providing a strategical buffer against proviso concatenation disruptions presently impacting the Middle East and Asia.

Full-year guidance remains unchanged, but the premix has shifted toward higher terms realization to offset a much muted measurement outlook owed to pressured user sentiment.
Raw worldly ostentation expectations were raised to a debased to mid single-digit range, with worldly P&L impacts anticipated to statesman successful the 2nd 4th and proceed into the 2nd fractional of 2026.
The institution plans to unfastened 80 to 100 caller stores successful 2026 portion continuing to adjacent underperforming locations to optimize instrumentality connected nett assets.
Guidance assumes that concern segments volition consciousness inflationary pressures archetypal owed to solvent and resin volatility, followed by architectural businesses successful North and South America.
Management expressed readiness to instrumentality further 'surgical' terms increases if the earthy worldly situation continues to inflate beyond existent baseline assumptions.

The Middle East struggle has introduced heightened volatility successful petrochemical feedstocks, with propylene forecasted to perchance summation by 50% done the remainder of the year.
SG&A expenses were impacted by astir 100 ground points owed to non-annualized costs from the Suvenil acquisition and depreciation related to caller firm buildings.
The Suvenil acquisition had a dilutive interaction connected reported gross margins, though halfway margins excluding the acquisition improved by implicit 100 ground points.
Foreign currency translation remains a important headwind, peculiarly affecting the Performance Coatings and Administrative segments.