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On Tuesday, Sherwin-Williams increased its full-year earnings forecast and reported a second-quarter profit that exceeded Wall Street expectations thanks to higher prices and rising sales across its paint stores and coating segments.
Growth in the new residential sector is also encouraging, and CEO Heidi Petz anticipates that trend to continue in the second half of the year.
She added that the company expects consolidated net sales during the third quarter of 2024 to be up a low-single digit percentage compared to the year-ago period. Petz took the helm at Sherwin-Williams at the beginning of this year.
Shares of the company were up 5.5% in premarket trading.
The firm raised its 2024 adjusted profit per share forecast to a range of $11.10 to $11.40. Analysts were expecting $11.37 per share, per LSEG data.
U.S. home sale data for April shows sales rising, with supply being the highest in more than 16 years, boosting spend on residential repaint, driving profits for paintmakers higher. Additionally, with interest rates expected to go lower, the demand for homes would increase.
Industry peer PPG Industries reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue due to weakness in its industrial coatings unit, yet the company expects an overall improvement in the second half of the year.
Overall sales for Sherwin-Williams inched up to $6.27 billion for the quarter ended June 30, from $6.24 billion a year ago, but falling short of estimates of $6.33 billion, as per LSEG data.
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