Big Money Sentiment decreased to 0.98 in Q4 2018. It has change of 0.08, from 2018Q3’s 1.06. The ratio worsened due to SHW positioning: 67 sold and 249 reduced. 92 funds bought stakes and 219 increased stakes. Investors holded 67.91 million in 2018Q3 but now own 71.36 million shares or 5.08% more. Riggs Asset Managment Communication invested in 0.04% or 133 shs. Winslow Evans & Crocker reported 0.02% of its capital in The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW). Invesco Limited has invested 0.11% in The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW). Mawer Invest Limited owns 68,955 shs for 0.23% of their capital. Nordea Management holds 0.08% or 71,603 shs in its capital. Welch & Forbes Ltd Liability Corp invested 0.13% of its capital in The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW). Moors Cabot Inc reported 3,285 shs. 5.43M are held by Blackrock. Quantitative Systematic Strategies Llc invested in 614 shs. Sunbelt has invested 0.24% of its capital in The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW). 175 are owned by City Hldgs Communication. Kingfisher Ltd Liability reported 7,190 shs. Fiera reported 1.40M shs or 2.5% of all its holdings. Cornerstone Advsrs has 7,000 shs. Portland Global Advsrs Ltd Liability Com owns 1,011 shs.

SHW had 0 insider sales and 1 buy since October 29, 2018. This’s net activity of $253,125.

The stake In Sherwin (SHW) was increased held by Fayez Sarofim & Company. According to 2018Q4 SEC filling the decrease is 775.1%. The company’s stock popped up 5.11% while Fayez Sarofim & Company bought 83,222 shares. The building materials company reported $36.97 million value for the 2018Q4. Now the institutional investor is holding 93,959 shares, compared to the 10,737 from the previous quarter. $41.42 billion is Sherwin’s market cap. SHW is reaching $449.23 during the last trading session, after increased 1.09%.The Sherwin-Williams Company has volume of 422,882 shares. Since April 6, 2018 SHW has risen 10.40% and is uptrending. SHW outperformed the S&P500 by 6.03%.

According to a filing the Fayez Sarofim & Company’s stake in Statestreetcorp (NYSE:STT) was decreased by 352,517 shares to 2.87 million shares valued at $180.99M in 2018Q4. It manages about $31.66B and $16.59B US Long portfolio. Fayez Sarofim & Company has cut its stake in Twentyfirstcenturyfoxinc.Classb (NASDAQ:FOX) and also reduced its holding in Anheuserbuschinbevsa/Nvsponadr (NYSE:BUD) by 176,433 shares in the quarter, for a total of 948,517 shares.

A couple more The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW) news were released by: Investorplace.com which released on April 06, 2019 “Check Out These 7 Fast-Growing Stocks to Buy Today – Investorplace.com”, also Benzinga.com on March 22, 2019 released “Benzinga’s Top Upgrades, Downgrades For March 22, 2019 – Benzinga”, the next Benzinga.com is “Sherwin-Williams Trades Higher On Wells Fargo Upgrade (NYSE:SHW) – Benzinga” on January 14, 2019. Seekingalpha.com has article titled “Sherwin Williams hikes dividend by 31% – Seeking Alpha”.

The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW) Ratings Coverage

Total analysts of 9 have positions in Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) as follows: 4 rated it a “Buy”, 0 with “Sell” and 5 with “Hold”. The positive are 44%. Since October 11, 2018 according to StockzIntelligence Inc Sherwin-Williams has 14 analyst reports. On Friday, March 22 the stock of The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW) earned “Hold” rating by J.P. Morgan. On Wednesday, January 16 the firm has “Overweight” rating by KeyBanc Capital Markets given. On Thursday, October 11 the stock has “Neutral” rating by Citigroup. On Friday, October 26 Barclays Capital maintained The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW) with “Equal-Weight” rating. On Monday, December 17 JP Morgan upgraded The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW) to “Overweight” rating. On Monday, January 14 the rating was upgraded by Wells Fargo to “Outperform”. On Wednesday, January 16 the stock has “Buy” rating by Deutsche Bank. The stock rating was maintained by Credit Suisse with “Outperform” on Friday, October 26. On Friday, March 22 the company was downgraded by JP Morgan. On Friday, October 26 the firm has “Neutral” rating by Buckingham Research given.