NYSE:PPG - PPG Industries Stock Price, Forecast & News

PPG Industries trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PPG."

PPG Industries announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 15th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, January 21st will be given a dividend of $0.51 per share on Thursday, March 12th. This represents a $2.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 20th. View PPG Industries' Dividend History.

PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PPG) posted its earnings results on Thursday, January, 16th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.31 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.34 by $0.03. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $3.67 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.67 billion. PPG Industries had a net margin of 8.21% and a return on equity of 28.55%. The company's quarterly revenue was up .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $1.15 earnings per share. View PPG Industries' Earnings History.

PPG Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for PPG Industries.

PPG Industries updated its first quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 16th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.32-1.42 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $1.53.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for PPG Industries' shares. Their forecasts range from $103.00 to $155.00. On average, they expect PPG Industries' share price to reach $131.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPG Industries.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPG Industries in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for PPG Industries.

News stories about PPG stock have trended very negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPG Industries earned a media sentiment score of -3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for PPG Industries.

PPG Industries saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,220,000 shares, a decline of 5.3% from the January 15th total of 5,510,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,340,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.9 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View PPG Industries' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to PPG Industries include FMC (FMC), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Huntsman (HUN), Olin (OLN) and LSB Industries (LXU).

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PPG Industries' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (9.41%), State Street Corp (4.82%), Parnassus Investments CA (1.85%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.35%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%) and Charles Schwab Investment Advisory Inc. (0.97%). Company insiders that own PPG Industries stock include Jean-Marie Greindl, Michael H Mcgarry, Vadlamannati Ramaprasad, Victoria F Haynes and William E Schaupp. View Institutional Ownership Trends for PPG Industries.

PPG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, PGGM Investments, State Street Corp, SG Americas Securities LLC, Mawer Investment Management Ltd., Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Pinebridge Investments L.P. and AJO LP. Company insiders that have sold PPG Industries company stock in the last year include Michael H Mcgarry, Vadlamannati Ramaprasad, Victoria F Haynes and William E Schaupp. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPG Industries.

PPG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Madison Asset Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Parnassus Investments CA, Bank of Montreal Can and Scopus Asset Management L.P.. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPG Industries.

Shares of PPG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PPG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $118.91.

PPG Industries has a market capitalization of $28.12 billion and generates $15.15 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $1.24 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.22 on an earnings per share basis. PPG Industries employs 47,300 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About PPG Industries.

The official website for PPG Industries is http://www.ppg.com/.

PPG Industries' mailing address is ONE PPG PL 40 EAST, PITTSBURGH PA, 15272. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at 412-434-3131 or via email at [email protected]