How to buy PPG Industries (PPG) stocks

PPG Industries is a specialty chemicals business based in the US. PPG Industries shares (PPG) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

Its last market close was $120.21 – a decrease of 3.19% over the previous week. PPG Industries employs 53,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $18 billion.

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PPG Industries stock price (NYSE: PPG)

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PPG Industries stocks at a glance

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Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$120.21
52-week range	$116.76 - $147.73
50-day moving average more info button	$125.50
200-day moving average more info button	$129.45
Wall St. target price	$145.40
PE ratio more info button	19.2155
Dividend yield more info button	$2.63 (2.19%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$6.31

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PPG Industries price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $119.52 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-3.74%
1 month (2024-11-21)	-2.58%
3 months (2024-09-20)	-5.52%
6 months (2024-06-21)	-7.05%

1 year (2023-12-21)	-19.11%
2 years (2022-12-21)	-2.22%
3 years (2021-12-21)	154.6679
5 years (2019-12-20)	120.941

Is PPG Industries stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing PPG Industries stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of PPG Industries's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

PPG Industries's P/E ratio

PPG Industries's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 19x. In other words, PPG Industries shares trade at around 19x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the stock or simply that they're under-valued.

PPG Industries's PEG ratio

PPG Industries's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.0576. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into PPG Industries's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

PPG Industries's EBITDA

PPG Industries's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.9 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a PPG Industries's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

PPG Industries financials

Revenue TTM	$18 billion
Operating margin TTM	13.31%
Gross profit TTM	$6.6 billion
Return on assets TTM	6.68%
Return on equity TTM	19.15%
Profit margin	8.24%
Book value	$33.57
Market Capitalization more info button	$28.1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

PPG Industries stock dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 33.17% of net profits

Recently PPG Industries has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), PPG Industries shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In PPG Industries's case, that would currently equate to about $2.63 per share.

While PPG Industries's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that PPG Industries may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

PPG Industries's most recent dividend payout was on 11 December 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 11 November 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have PPG Industries's stocks ever split?

PPG Industries's stocks were split on a 2:1 basis on 14 June 2015 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your PPG Industries stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for PPG Industries stocks, which in turn could have impacted PPG Industries's stock price.

PPG Industries stock price volatility

Over the last 12 months, PPG Industries's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $116.7607 up to $147.7323. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."

Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while PPG Industries's is 1.254. This would suggest that PPG Industries's stocks are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

PPG Industries overview

PPG Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes paints, coatings, and specialty materials in the United States, Canada, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates through two segments, Performance Coatings and Industrial Coatings. The Performance Coatings segment offers coatings, solvents, adhesives, sealants, sundries, and software for automotive and commercial transport/fleet repair and refurbishing, light industrial coatings, and specialty coatings for signs; wood stains; paints, thermoplastics, pavement marking products, and other advanced technologies for pavement marking for government, commercial infrastructure, painting, and maintenance contractors; and coatings, sealants, transparencies, transparent armor, adhesives, engineered materials, and packaging and chemical management services for commercial, military, regional jet, and general aviation aircraft. The Industrial Coatings segment offers coatings, adhesives and sealants, and metal pretreatments, as well as services and coatings applications for appliances, agricultural and construction equipment, consumer electronics, automotive parts and accessories, building products, kitchenware, and transportation vehicles and other finished products; and on-site coatings services. It also provides coatings for metal cans, closures, plastic and aluminum tubes for food, beverage and personal care, promotional, and specialty packaging; amorphous precipitated silica for tire, battery separator, and other end-uses; TESLIN substrates for labels, e-passports, drivers' licenses, breathable membranes, and loyalty and identification cards; and organic light emitting diode materials, displays and lighting lens materials, optical lenses, color-change products, and photochromic dyes. PPG Industries, Inc.

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Frequently asked questions

What percentage of PPG Industries is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.203% of PPG Industries stocks are held by insiders and 85.062% by institutions. How many people work for PPG Industries?
Latest data suggests 53,000 work at PPG Industries. When does the fiscal year end for PPG Industries?
PPG Industries's fiscal year ends in December. Where is PPG Industries based?
PPG Industries's address is: One PPG Place, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 15272 What is PPG Industries's ISIN number?
PPG Industries's international securities identification number is: US6935061076 What is PPG Industries's CUSIP number?
PPG Industries's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 693506107

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