** Shares of global paint supplier Sherwin-Williams SHW.N down 1.6% at $345.02 premarket
** Deutsche Bank Research downgrades rating to "hold" from "buy"; cuts PT to $380 from $390
** New PT still represents an 8.4% upside to stock's last close
** Brokerage expects a challenging environment for US architectural paints to continue through first half of 2026 and possibly the entire year, amid bearish fundamentals in the U.S. housing market
** Says it does not see SHW hitting strong double‑digit growth again before 2027, marking its third straight year of less than 10% EPS growth
** 16 of 28 brokerages rate stock "buy" or higher and 12 "hold"; median PT is $392.50 - data compiled by LSEG
** SHW rose ~5% in 2025
(Reporting by Sanskriti Shekhar in Bengaluru )
((Sanskriti.Shekhar@thomsonreuters.com))