PPG INDUSTRIES INC
At today's price, PPG INDUSTRIES INC (PPG) is priced for -3.3% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- PPG is a global coatings maker split across three units: Industrial Coatings at about 41% of sales, Performance Coatings at 35%, and Global Architectural Coatings at 24%. A single multiple blends a steady aerospace and refinish business with a more cyclical industrial one. - The recent story is self-help: a fifth straight quarter of organic growth, architectural segment income up over 30%, restructuring with European plant closures, and a 2024 reshaping that divested the lower-margin North Ame
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1,008 institutional managers reported holding PPG in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 89% of the company; the top 10 hold 51%. 139 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 8.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (5.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
PPG has cut its share count 5.9% over the past five years, spending $1.94B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 16 years straight; the current rate is $2.78 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.72B in dividends and $1.75B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at PPG over the trailing three years: 2024: 1 buy totaling $275k; 2026: 1 buy totaling $1k. 16 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
PPG's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-22 | -0.6% | -12.8% |
| 2023-10-20 | -5.4% | +19.3% |
| 2024-02-16 | +0.7% | -7.6% |
| 2024-04-20 | -2.9% | -1.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
PPG's latest 8-K filings: 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-04-21 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-15 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-27 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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