PPG Industries

PPG US Materials Specialty Chemicals
S&P 500
$105.50
+0.43%
Delayed · cached 15 min
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Peer comparison

CompanyPriceMarket CapP/EP/BROE %ROCE %Div yield %Valuation
DuPont$ 126.99$17.15B54.741.25-5.661.072.38
Sherwin-Williams$ 323.31$78.49B29.8520.2466.6316.671.00Above FV
Ecolab$ 276.18$77.42B37.027.7020.6411.221.05Above FV
PPG Industries$ 105.50$23.45B15.142.7819.4511.862.70Above FV
International Flavors & Fragrances$ 83.61$21.33B-59.301.53-2.57-1.801.90
Balchem Corporation$ 164.39$5.24B32.364.0311.8913.860.58Above FV
LyondellBasell$ 63.69$20.57B-27.221.93-6.92-1.486.41
RPM International$ 100.21$12.79B19.383.8619.9713.852.14Above FV
Albemarle Corporation$ 117.52$13.87B435.261.72-4.97-2.601.33
Solstice Advanced Materials$ 61.53$9.77B46.616.1614.9415.390.24Above FV
Westlake Corporation$ 70.81$9.05B-6.051.04-17.32-9.472.96
NewMarket Corporation$ 887.08$8.16B19.094.4422.7816.981.33Above FV

Price, market cap, P/E, P/B and dividend yield reflect the live quote (delayed, cached 15 min); ROE/ROCE from reported financials. The highlighted row is the current company. Click a column header to sort. Educational data only.

How to read the peer comparison

This table places the company beside others in the same industry on a few common measures. Comparison adds context that a single company's numbers cannot give on their own.

  • Valuation multiples like P/E and P/B are most meaningful within the same industry, because different industries naturally trade at different levels. Comparing a company only to its peers is more useful than to the whole market.
  • Return measures (ROE, ROCE) show how efficiently each company turns capital into profit. A company well ahead of or behind its peers here is worth understanding.
  • No single column decides anything. A beginner reads the row across — valuation, returns, and size together — and treats the highlighted current company as one data point among its peers.
  • Use the sortable headers to rank peers on any measure, but remember that "cheaper" or "higher" on one metric is a starting question, not an answer.

Educational only — not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security.

Educational data only. Not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security.