PPG Industries Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:PPG)

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

PPG Industries declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 18th. Investors of record on Monday, August 12th will be given a dividend of $0.51 per share on Thursday, September 12th. This represents a $2.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.71%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 9th. This is an increase from PPG Industries's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View PPG Industries' Dividend History.

PPG Industries announced that its board has initiated a stock buyback program on Friday, December 15th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $2,500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PPG) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 18th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.85 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.02. The specialty chemicals company earned $4.02 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.10 billion. PPG Industries had a return on equity of 27.89% and a net margin of 8.07%. PPG Industries's revenue was down 2.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.90 earnings per share. View PPG Industries' Earnings History.

PPG Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 17th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPG Industries.

PPG Industries issued an update on its third quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.57-1.67 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.68.

17 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for PPG Industries' shares. Their forecasts range from $103.00 to $138.00. On average, they anticipate PPG Industries' stock price to reach $122.1429 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPG Industries.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPG Industries in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings, 7 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPG Industries.

News coverage about PPG stock has trended somewhat negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PPG Industries earned a coverage optimism score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for PPG Industries.

Some companies that are related to PPG Industries include Akzo Nobel (AKZOD), Akzo Nobel (AKZOY), Nippon Paint (NPCPF), RPM International (RPM), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA) and Ferro (FOE).

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PPG Industries' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.50%), BlackRock Inc. (6.22%), BlackRock Inc. (6.22%), Trian Fund Management L.P. (1.79%), Parnassus Investments CA (1.77%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.33%). 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 Trian Fund Management L.P., Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Quest Capital Management Inc. ADV, First Trust Advisors LP, Balyasny Asset Management LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Echo Street Capital Management LLC and UBS Asset Management Americas Inc.. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, APG Asset Management N.V., Royal Bank of Canada, Panagora Asset Management Inc., BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. 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 $119.26.

PPG Industries has a market capitalization of $28.18 billion and generates $15.37 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $1.34 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.92 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]