The trading price of PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE:PPG) floating lower at last check on Wednesday, May 24, closing at $134.41, -1.80% lower than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $136.82 and $140.06. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 25.47, while its 5Y monthly beta was 1.17. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $145.51 and a 52-week low of $107.06. Over the past month, the stock has lost -4.29% in value.
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PPG Industries Inc., whose market valuation is $32.26 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Jul 19, 2023 – Jul 24, 2023. The dividend yield on the company stock is 1.81%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 2.48. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by $2.12 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of $7.23 for 2023 and $8.16 for 2024. It means analysts are expecting annual earnings per share growth of 19.50% this year and 12.90% next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of $4.84 billion for the current quarter, with the likely lows of $4.61 billion and highs of $5.01 billion. The average estimate suggests sales will likely up by 3.10% this quarter compared to what was recorded in the comparable quarter last year. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue in 2023 is $18.14 billion. The company’s revenue is forecast to grow by 2.80% over what it did in 2023.
A company’s earnings reviews provide a brief indication of a stock’s direction in the short term, where in the case of PPG Industries Inc. 1 upward and no downward comments were posted in the last 7 days. On the technical side, indicators suggest PPG has a 50% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned PPG a recommendation rating is 29. Out of them, 14 rate it a Hold, while 12 recommend Buy, whereas 1 assign an Overweight rating. 1 analyst(s) have tagged PPG Industries Inc. (PPG) as Underweight, while 1 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Overweight, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 1.79, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that PPG’s price is currently -3.34% off the SMA20 and -1.05% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 40.39, and weekly volatility stands at 1.85%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 1.87%. PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE:PPG)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.17, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 2.85.
To see how PPG Industries Inc. stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: PPG stock’s performance was -1.80% at last check in today’s session, and 9.45% in the past year, while 3M Company (MMM) has been trading -1.62% in recent session and positioned -31.38% lower than it was a year ago. Another comparable company The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) saw its stock trading 0.42% higher in today’s session but was down -12.06% in a year. PPG Industries Inc. has a P/E ratio of 25.47, compared to 3M Company’s 10.44 and The Sherwin-Williams Company’s 27.85. Also during today’s trading, the S&P 500 Index has plunged -0.86%, while the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a negative session, down -0.70% today.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE:PPG) indicates that the 3-month average is 1.41 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 1.08 million.
Currently, records show that 235.80 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.29% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 82.50%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Apr 27, 2023, stood at 1.96 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 1.23 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 0.83% of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in April were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 1.9 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 6.90% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
