# RNN 1st Gen Model Sherwin-Williams Company Building materials, hardware, garden supply & mobile home dealers

The Sherwin-Williams Company (Sherwin-Williams) has been in business since 1866. The Company's core business is the manufacture, distribution and sale of coatings and related products. The Company manufactures products under well-known brands such as Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, HGTV HOME by Sherwin-Williams, Dutch Boy, Krylon, Minwax, Thompson's Water Seal, Pratt & Lambert, White Lightning, Bestt Liebco, Cabot and many more. Sherwin-Williams branded products are sold exclusively through a chain of more than 4,100 company-operated stores and facilities, while the company's other brands are sold through leading mass merchandisers, home centers, independent paint dealers, hardware stores, automotive retailers, and industrial distributors. The Sherwin-Williams Performance Coatings Group supplies a broad range of highly-engineered solutions for the construction, industrial, packaging and transportation markets in more than 120 countries around the world.

Industry sector: Construction

Sector classification: Building materials, hardware, garden supply & mobile home dealers

Deep Learning based analysis and prediction model for Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) stock is a 1st Generation Non-linear Autoregresive with exogenous variable(s) (NARX) model based on the Recurrent Neural Network architecture.

Model is in the production pipeline since Oct. 22, 2015.

Market data for SHW model training are being downloaded from the Quandl premium datasets on a daily basis.
Risks related to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the virus named “SARS-CoV-2” are accounted for in this model in the form of the historical data coincided with outbreaks and other global events in the past used to train ML prediction model for SHW.

Model is being retrained on a daily basis.