Sherwin-Williams
New York symbol SHW, is the largest paint maker in the United States. It also operates more than 3,300 paint stores throughout North America.
WINDSTREAM CORP. $12 (Nasdaq symbol WIN; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 515.8 million; Market cap: $6.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.5; Dividend yield: 8.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.windstream.com) has completed its purchase of PAETEC Holding Corp., which sells telecommunication services to businesses in 46 states. Windstream paid $891 million in stock and assumed $1.4 billion of PAETEC’s debt. That gives …read more »
Sherwin-Williams Co., $76.72, symbol SHW on New York, is North America’s largest paint producer. It operates over 3,900 paint and finishing stores around the world.
Sherwin is one of the stocks we analyze in Wall Street Stock Forecaster, our newsletter for U.S.A. stock market investing.
In the three months ended June 30, 2011, Sherwin’s sales rose 9.9% to $2.4 billion from $2.1 …read more »
Sherwin-Williams Co., symbol SHW on New York, is North America’s largest paint producer. The stock market investment also operates over 3,900 paint stores, which account for half its sales.
Sherwin is one of the stocks we analyze in Wall Street Stock Forecaster, our newsletter for investing in the U.S. markets.
In the three months ended March 31, 2011, Sherwin’s sales rose 18.5%, …read more »
Sherritt International Corp., symbol S on Toronto, is a diversified natural-resource company that produces nickel, cobalt, thermal coal, oil and gas. It also licenses its own mining technologies to other metals companies, and manages 376 megawatts of power-generation capacity in Cuba.
In the three months ended March 31, 2011, the Canadian mining stock’s earnings jumped 116.3%, to $63.6 million, or $0.22 …read more »
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. $83 (New York symbol SHW; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 107.9 million; Market cap: $9.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.sherwin-williams.com) is North America’s largest paint producer. The company also operates 3,400 paint stores, which account for 55% of its sales.
In 2010, Sherwin expanded its wood-coating operations by purchasing …read more »
These consumer-product makers continue to face strong competition from cheaper generic brands. However, all three are doing a good job of cutting costs and expanding internationally. Even so, only two are buys right now.
PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. $64 (New York symbol PG; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.8 billion; Market cap: $179.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend …read more »
Sherwin-Williams and La-Z-Boy are doing a good job of cutting costs in response to weak housing markets, which are hurting paint and furniture demand. The resulting savings have boosted both companies’ earnings and share prices. However, their sales will likely remain weak for the next year or two.
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. $74 (New York symbol SHW; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares …read more »
BRIGGS & STRATTON CORP. $20 and other lawn-mower engine makers have agreed to settle over 65 class-action lawsuits that accused the companies of using misleading labels on their engines. The settlement will cut Briggs’ after-tax earnings by $19 million. That’s over half of the $35.5 million, or $0.71 a share, that it earned in the year ended June 30, 2009. …read more »
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. $61 (New York symbol SHW; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 116.3 million; Market cap: $7.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.0; WSSF Rating: Above Average) is North America’s largest paint producer. The company gets 60% of its sales from its over 3,300 paint stores.
The slowdown in new U.S. housing construction has hurt demand for Sherwin’s paints. As well, …read more »
A weak economy is prompting more consumers to choose cheaper generic brands over brand names. That’s dampened the profits of these four leading consumer-products firms. However, they are doing a good job of cutting their costs. This gives them the ability to lower their prices without hurting their profit margins.
PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. $57 (New York symbol PG; Conservative Growth …read more »
