NYSE:PPG - PPG Industries Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

PPG Industries declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 19th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 10th will be given a dividend of $0.45 per share on Tuesday, June 12th. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 9th. View PPG Industries' Dividend History.

PPG Industries announced that its board has approved a stock buyback plan on Friday, December 15th 2017, which authorizes the company to repurchase $2,500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PPG) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April, 19th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.39 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.49 by $0.10. The specialty chemicals company earned $3.79 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.72 billion. PPG Industries had a net margin of 10.94% and a return on equity of 26.15%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 8.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.35 EPS. View PPG Industries' Earnings History.

PPG Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July, 18th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for PPG Industries.

18 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for PPG Industries' shares. Their forecasts range from $113.00 to $139.00. On average, they anticipate PPG Industries' share price to reach $123.6471 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for PPG Industries.

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Media stories about PPG stock have trended positive recently, Accern reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. PPG Industries earned a news sentiment score of 0.26 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the specialty chemicals company an impact score of 47.13 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

PPG Industries' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (7.65%), BlackRock Inc. (6.01%), Aristotle Capital Management LLC (1.36%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.33%), Thomaspartners Inc. (1.24%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.19%). Company insiders that own PPG Industries stock include Glenn E Bost II, Jean-Marie Greindl, Timothy M Knavish and Viktoras R Sekmakas. View Institutional Ownership Trends for PPG Industries.

PPG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Millennium Management LLC, American Century Companies Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Swiss National Bank, Honeywell International Inc. and WINTON GROUP Ltd. Company insiders that have sold PPG Industries company stock in the last year include Glenn E Bost II, Jean-Marie Greindl and Viktoras R Sekmakas. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPG Industries.

PPG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Findlay Park Partners LLP, WBI Investments Inc., Aristotle Capital Management LLC, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Royal Bank of Canada and Neuberger Berman Group LLC. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PPG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $104.49.

PPG Industries has a market capitalization of $26.33 billion and generates $14.75 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $1.59 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.87 on an earnings per share basis. PPG Industries employs 28,200 workers across the globe.

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]