Who owns the Sherwin-Williams company?

Sherwin-Williams Company is a publicly traded company owned by its shareholders, with no single majority owner, traded on New York Stock Exchange under ticker SHW, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, founded in 1866 by Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams. As of 2026, Sherwin-Williams is large cap public company with market capitalization over 70 billion dollars, owned by institutional investors like Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street, which together own about 25 to 30 percent of shares, with remaining shares owned by mutual funds, pension funds, and individual investors, with no individual owning more than about 10 percent, making it widely held public company. Sherwin-Williams was founded in 1866 in Cleveland, Ohio, as Sherwin, Williams, and Co, starting as paint and varnish company, growing to largest paint company in US and third largest globally, with over 5,000 stores and 60,000 employees worldwide, with CEO Heidi Petz as of 2024 leading company. The company is not owned by Warren Buffett or Berkshire Hathaway, though Berkshire owns Benjamin Moore competitor, Sherwin-Williams is independent public company with board of directors overseeing management, with shareholders electing board annually, with no controlling family ownership since founders died, now institutional ownership. So Sherwin-Williams Company is publicly traded company owned by its shareholders, primarily institutional investors Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, with no single owner, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, traded on NYSE as SHW, independent public company not owned by single person or Berkshire Hathaway, with market cap over 70 billion dollars.