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. Stockholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 9th. This is a positive change from PPG Industries's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View PPG Industries' Dividend History.

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

PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PPG) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 18th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.85 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' 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 net margin of 8.07% and a return on equity of 27.89%. The business's revenue was down 2.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.90 EPS. 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 will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 17th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

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

15 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for PPG Industries' shares. Their predictions range from $103.00 to $138.00. On average, they anticipate PPG Industries' stock price to reach $122.77 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPG Industries.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPG Industries in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings, 6 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPG Industries.

Media stories about PPG stock have trended negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PPG Industries earned a news sentiment score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for PPG Industries.

PPG Industries saw a decrease in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 4,470,000 shares, a decrease of 9.9% from the August 15th total of 4,960,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,130,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.0 days. Approximately 1.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View PPG Industries' Current Options Chain.

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 shareholders include Meyer Handelman Co. (0.09%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), Verity & Verity LLC (0.02%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.01%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.01%) and Pennsylvania Trust Co (0.01%). 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 SevenBridge Financial Group LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC, Meyer Handelman Co., Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Arden Trust Co, Pennsylvania Trust Co, Verity & Verity LLC and Radnor Capital Management LLC. 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 State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Pacer Advisors Inc., North Star Investment Management Corp., Cerebellum GP LLC, Welch & Forbes LLC, Intellectus Partners LLC and Mitchell Mcleod Pugh & Williams Inc.. 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 $119.17.

PPG Industries has a market capitalization of $28.16 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]