The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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With us on today's call are Heidi Petz, Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer, Al Mastician, Chief Financial Officer, Paul Lang, Chief Accounting Officer and Jim Jay, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications. This conference call is being webcast simultaneously in listen-only mode by Access Newswire via the internet at www.sherwin.com. An archived replay of this webcast will be available at www.sherwin.com beginning approximately two hours after this conference call concludes. this conference call will include certain forward-looking statements as defined under u s federal securities laws with respect to sales earnings and other matters any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of which the statement is made and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. A full declaration regarding forward-looking statements is provided in the company's earnings release, transmitted earlier this morning. After the company's prepared remarks, we will open this session to questions. I will now turn the call over to Jim Jay. Sir, the floor is yours. Thank you, and good morning to everyone. Sherwin-Williams continued to execute our strategy in a demand environment that remained choppy as we expected. We also continued to take aggressive and deliberate operational and commercial actions in response to, number one, a softer for longer demand environment, and number two, a rapidly changing and opportune competitive environment, which we are taking advantage of by accelerating our strategic intensity in the short term to favor Sherwin-Williams over the long term. On a year-over-year basis, consolidated sales were within our guided range,...