The Sherwin-Williams Company’s SHW shares have increased 11.7% in the past six months compared with the S&P 500 and the industry’s growth of 8.9% and 9.4%, respectively. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Let’s look at the factors driving the stock’s price appreciation.

Sherwin-Williams Co. closed $1.27 short of its 52-week high ($382.83), which the company achieved on September 17th.

While the rest of the market has been ticking higher over the past few weeks, shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are still under pressure. They managed to rally hard throughout August, undoing most of the damage from the market-wide selloff that took them down 17% at the start of the month,