Are You a Growth Investor? This 1 Stock Could Be the Perfect Pick

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It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors.

Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.

Why This 1 Growth Stock Should Be On Your Watchlist

Different than value or momentum investors, growth-oriented investors are concerned with a stock's future prospects, and the overall financial health and strength of a company. Thus, they'll want to focus on the Growth Style Score, which analyzes characteristics like projected and historical earnings, sales, and cash flow to find stocks that will see sustainable growth over time.

Sherwin-Williams (SHW)

Founded in 1866 and headquartered in Cleveland, OH, The Sherwin-Williams Company is into manufacturing and sales of paints, coatings and related products, primarily in the North and South America. It also has operations in the Caribbean region, Europe and Asia. Sherwin-Williams is one of the biggest paint companies in the United States and in the world. Its well-known brands include Dutch Boy, Minwax and Krylon. The company, on Jun 1, 2017, completed the purchase of rival paints maker Valspar in an all-cash transaction, creating a premier global paints and coatings company.

SHW sits at a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), holds a Growth Style Score of B, and has a VGM Score of A. Earnings and sales are forecasted to increase 12% and 3.1% year-over-year, respectively.

One analyst revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.13 to $9.78 per share for 2023. SHW boasts an average earnings surprise of 11%.

On a historic basis, Sherwin-Williams has generated cash flow growth of 8%, and is expected to report cash flow expansion of 4.8% this year.

SHW should be on investors' short lists because of its impressive growth fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Growth and VGM Style Scores.

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