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 declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 15th. Shareholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.70%. The ex-dividend date 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 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.34 by $0.03. The specialty chemicals company earned $3.67 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.67 billion. The business's revenue was up .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last 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 EPS guidance of $1.32-1.42 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.53.

18 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for PPG Industries' shares. Their forecasts range from $103.00 to $155.00. On average, they anticipate PPG Industries' stock price to reach $131.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.6% 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.

Media coverage about PPG stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PPG Industries earned a media sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for PPG Industries.

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

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

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PPG Industries' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (9.41%), State Street Corp (4.82%), Parnassus Investments CA (1.85%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%), Charles Schwab Investment Advisory Inc. (0.97%) and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (0.69%). 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 purchased 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 $120.15.