PPG Competitors

PPG Stock

USD 131.34 0.22 0.17%

PPG Industries competes with RPM International, Steel Dynamics, Teck Resources, Dow, and Sociedad Quimica; as well as few others. The company runs under Chemicals sector within Materials industry. Analyzing PPG Industries competition allows you to expand the diversification possibilities of your existing portfolios and to get a better perspective on locking in new positions. Investors sometimes prefer comparable analysis of PPG Industries to its intrinsic valuation because they are able to contrast its competitors on a relative basis. Check out PPG Industries Correlation with its peers.

For more detail on how to invest in PPG Stock please use our How to Invest in PPG Industries guide.

PPG Industries vs Axalta Coating Correlation

Poor diversification

The correlation between PPG Industries and AXTA is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding PPG Industries and AXTA in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.

Moving together with PPG Stock

0.66	CE	Celanese Earnings Call This Week	Pair Corr
0.81	FF	FutureFuel Corp	Pair Corr

Moving against PPG Stock

0.69	M5S	Marna Beteiligungen	Pair Corr
0.39	UT8	Uber Technologies	Pair Corr

Specify up to 10 symbols:

Hype

Prediction

Low	Estimated	High
118.21	134.01	135.42

Details

Intrinsic

Valuation

Low	Real	High
118.21	134.71	136.12

Details

PPG Industries Competition Correlation Matrix

Typically, diversification allows investors to combine positions across different asset classes to reduce overall portfolio risk. Correlation between PPG Industries and its competitors represents the degree of relationship between the price movements of corresponding stocks. A correlation of about +1.0 implies that the price of PPG and its corresponding peer move in tandem. A correlation of -1.0 means that prices move in opposite directions. A correlation of close to zero suggests that the price movements of assets are uncorrelated; in other words, the historical price movement of PPG Industries does not affect the price movement of the other competitor.

	RPM	STLD	TECK	DOW	SQM	IFF	LYB	DD	NTR	AXTA
RPM		0.86	0.48	0.92	0.35	0.86	0.93	0.64	0.45	0.68	RPM
STLD	0.86		0.65	0.9	0.36	0.76	0.84	0.75	0.64	0.74	STLD
TECK	0.48	0.65		0.64	0.69	0.38	0.56	0.93	0.91	0.69	TECK
DOW	0.92	0.9	0.64		0.5	0.88	0.97	0.73	0.59	0.76	DOW
SQM	0.35	0.36	0.69	0.5		0.37	0.44	0.57	0.64	0.76	SQM
IFF	0.86	0.76	0.38	0.88	0.37		0.91	0.48	0.37	0.68	IFF
LYB	0.93	0.84	0.56	0.97	0.44	0.91		0.67	0.52	0.69	LYB
DD	0.64	0.75	0.93	0.73	0.57	0.48	0.67		0.84	0.67	DD
NTR	0.45	0.64	0.91	0.59	0.64	0.37	0.52	0.84		0.68	NTR
AXTA	0.68	0.74	0.69	0.76	0.76	0.68	0.69	0.67	0.68		AXTA
	RPM	STLD	TECK	DOW	SQM	IFF	LYB	DD	NTR	AXTA

Please upgrade your account to get full access to Macroaxis premium features

Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between PPG Stock performing well and PPG Industries Company doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze PPG Industries' multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.

	Mean Deviation	Jensen Alpha	Sortino Ratio	Treynor Ratio	Semi Deviation	Expected Shortfall	Potential Upside	Value @Risk	Maximum Drawdown
RPM	1.16	0.16	0.13	0.23	0.98	(1.31)	3.25	(1.80)	6.87
STLD	1.67	0.29	0.16	0.30	1.58	(1.83)	3.90	(2.95)	9.08
TECK	2.25	0.45	0.14	0.36	2.72	(2.33)	4.80	(4.33)	14.22
DOW	2.11	0.61	0.30	0.39	1.72	(2.55)	6.26	(3.59)	12.44
SQM	2.32	0.31	0.08	1.47	2.88	(2.44)	5.59	(4.33)	13.88
IFF	1.28	0.40	0.22	1.52	1.28	(1.46)	2.85	(2.28)	8.02
LYB	2.17	0.45	0.19	0.36	2.02	(2.44)	6.08	(3.66)	12.48
DD	1.32	0.27	0.16	0.28	1.41	(1.39)	3.82	(2.18)	10.08
NTR	1.71	0.34	0.13	2.57	1.89	(1.83)	3.45	(3.15)	12.86
AXTA	1.19	0.28	0.18	0.50	1.07	(1.32)	3.27	(2.44)	8.87

PPG Industries Competitive Analysis

The better you understand PPG Industries competitors, the better chance you have of utilizing it as a position in your portfolios. From an individual investor's perspective, PPG Industries' competitive analysis can cover a whole range of metrics. Some of these will be more critical depending on who you are as an investor and how you react to market volatility. However, if you are locking your investment sandscape to a long-term horizon, comparing the fundamental indicator across PPG Industries' competition over several years is one of the best ways to analyze its investment potential.

Better Than Average

Worse Than Peers

View Performance Chart

	PPG	RPM	STLD	TECK	DOW	SQM	IFF	LYB	DD	NTR
	0.17 131.34 PPG	1.63 118.21 RPM	3.92 191.68 Steel	0.58 58.91 Teck	0.49 32.49 Dow	1.14 70.91 Sociedad	1.84 83.00 International	0.29 57.61 LyondellBasell	1.60 50.22 Dupont	0.54 70.81 Nutrien
Market Volatility (90 Days Market Risk)	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady
Market Performance (90 Days Performance)	Strong	Good	Good	Solid	Solid	Fair	Solid	Good	Solid	Good
Odds of Financial Distress (Probability Of Bankruptcy)	Tiny	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Tiny
Current Valuation (Equity Enterprise Value)	Fairly Valued	Over Valued	Under Valued	Over Valued	Fairly Valued	Fairly Valued	Under Valued	Fairly Valued	Under Valued	Fairly Valued
Buy or Sell Advice (Average Analysts Consensus)	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Strong Buy	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Strong Buy	Buy
Trade Advice (90 Days Macroaxis Advice)	Strong Buy	Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Hold	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy
Current Ratio	1.52	1.99	3.67	1.65	1.61	2.12	1.64	1.62	2.39	1.21
Net Asset	7.96 B	7.78 B	16.41 B	47.04 B	58.54 B	11.5 B	25.54 B	35.75 B	21.57 B	51.84 B
Profit Margin	0.0993	0.0879	0.0652	0.12	-0.0656	0.12	-0.0343	-0.032	-0.11	0.0705
EBITDA	2.81 B	1.08 B	2.11 B	1.78 B	1.19 B	1.17 B	(382 M)	1.19 B	1.16 B	4.21 B
Operating Margin	0.12	0.12	0.0703	0.14	-0.0314	0.24	0.0491	0.0604	0.14	0.13
Current Valuation	35.53 B	17.94 B	32.58 B	32.25 B	39.21 B	22.35 B	26.28 B	30.03 B	22.71 B	47.65 B
Price To Book	3.11	4.92	3.25	1.56	1.52	3.65	1.47	1.81	1.45	1.36
Retained Earnings	21.99 B	3.19 B	15.69 B	17.06 B	16.78 B	3.62 B	(2.6 B)	9.32 B	(24.28 B)	11.11 B
Current Asset	6.71 B	2.14 B	2.54 B	3.46 B	11.38 B	2.7 B	866.75 M	9.79 B	17.12 B	4.57 B
Five Year Return	1.67	2.0	2.23	0.84	3.28	3.39	2.27	4.75	2.5	3.13
Beta	1.16	1.1	1.45	1.5	0.75	1.02	1.04	0.71	1.16	1.14
Number Of Employees	46 K	17.8 K	13 K	7.2 K	34.6 K	7.82 K	22.4 K	20 K	24 K	25.5 K
Shares Outstanding	224.4 M	128.08 M	146.03 M	480.62 M	717.53 M	142.82 M	256.1 M	321.87 M	409.2 M	483.34 M
Cash Flow From Operations	1.42 B	768.19 M	1.45 B	2.79 B	1.03 B	1.27 B	850 M	3.82 B	1.41 B	3.54 B
Annual Yield	0.0216	0.018	0.01	0.0062	0.0429	N/A	0.0196	0.0921	0.0285	0.0308
Total Debt	7.45 B	2.96 B	4.21 B	9.96 B	20.7 B	4.82 B	11.36 B	12.92 B	3.19 B	12.81 B
Return On Equity	0.21	0.23	0.13	0.0306	-0.14	0.0996	-0.0265	-0.11	0.0052	0.0732
Return On Asset	0.0603	0.0786	0.0589	0.0205	-7.0E-4	0.0502	0.0233	0.022	0.0186	0.039
Number Of Shares Shorted	6.92 M	2.44 M	3.69 M	9.45 M	25.73 M	1.6 M	10 M	21.59 M	9.24 M	6.22 M
Book Value Per Share	34.76	24.43	61.51	37.6	22.32	19.23	55.39	32.93	34.02	51.86
Current Liabilities	4.7 B	1 B	535.29 M	1.24 B	8.86 B	702.93 M	359.5 M	4.35 B	8.9 B	3.69 B
Total Asset	7.96 B	7.78 B	16.41 B	47.04 B	58.54 B	11.5 B	25.54 B	35.75 B	21.57 B	51.84 B
Debt To Equity	1.24	1.55	0.38	0.38	0.79	0.012	0.63	1.06	0.48	0.44
Short Ratio	3.08	1.98	2.81	2.38	2.11	0.9	6.21	3.46	1.96	2.14
Target Price	124.5	127.36	193.1	47.53	29.19	74.06	86.91	51.06	54.88	70.47
Last Dividend Paid	2.78	2.07	2.0	0.5	2.1	N/A	1.6	5.42	1.43	2.17
Shares Owned By Institutions	92.31	84.19	84.22	77.42	66.76	34.56	98.9	69.43	79.5	73.15
Market Capitalization	29.64 B	15.16 B	29.37 B	28.67 B	23.43 B	20.03 B	21.27 B	18.6 B	21.04 B	34.49 B
Price To Earning	29.97	29.64	4.6	5.41	19.47	9.23	31.58	6.55	21.91	75.49
Price To Earnings To Growth	1.68	1.99	10.91	0.96	0.54	0.69	2.78	1.35	1.69	0.66
Price To Sales	1.87	2.0	1.62	2.73	0.59	4.63	1.95	0.49	3.07	1.34
Net Income	1.58 B	690.33 M	1.19 B	(923 M)	(2.62 B)	(404.36 M)	(372 M)	(738 M)	98 M	700 M
Earnings Per Share	6.91	5.11	7.98	1.82	-3.7	-1.84	-1.49	-3.92	0.21	3.71
Shares Owned By Insiders	0.14	1.28	6.43	2.28	0.16	0.96	1.97	20.46	0.29	0.03
Revenue	15.88 B	7.37 B	18.18 B	9.06 B	39.97 B	4.53 B	10.89 B	30.15 B	6.85 B	25.97 B
Working Capital	1.54 B	1.7 B	3.28 B	8.2 B	8.88 B	3.36 B	3.66 B	5.56 B	1.56 B	1.75 B
Cash And Equivalents	1.27 B	302.14 M	2 B	2.64 B	3.82 B	3.51 B	590 M	3.38 B	715 M	711 M
Cash Per Share	4.67	1.53	11.41	5.15	3.64	12.27	2.23	4.62	3.59	1.32
Gross Profit	6.56 B	3.12 B	2.39 B	2.21 B	2.49 B	1.19 B	3.94 B	3.08 B	2.36 B	8.04 B
Day Typical Price	131.57	118.76	190.32	58.43	32.65	70.27	82.33	57.63	49.81	70.54
Accumulation Distribution	0.0143	0.0193	0.0478	95278.01	0.025	0.0355	0.0278	0.0313	0.0278	35923.77
Market Facilitation Index	1.9	2.32	9.28	0.0	0.83	2.53	2.31	1.83	1.4	0.0
Daily Balance Of Power	(0.12)	(0.84)	(0.84)	0.1683	(0.19)	0.3162	0.6494	(0.09)	0.5643	0.2836
Period Momentum Indicator	(0.22)	(1.96)	(7.83)	0.34	(0.16)	0.8	1.5	(0.17)	0.79	0.38
Rate Of Daily Change	1.0	0.98	0.96	1.01	1.0	1.01	1.02	1.0	1.02	1.01
Day Median Price	131.68	119.03	189.64	58.19	32.74	69.94	82.0	57.65	49.6	70.4
Price Action Indicator	(0.45)	(1.80)	(1.87)	0.89	(0.32)	1.36	1.75	(0.12)	1.02	0.6
Coefficient Of Variation	262.56	678.64	565.48	538.64	384.82	917.36	416.63	528.08	510.21	610.7
Mean Deviation	1.06	1.16	1.67	2.25	2.11	2.32	1.28	2.17	1.32	1.71
Jensen Alpha	0.4737	0.1638	0.2929	0.4477	0.6088	0.306	0.3973	0.4481	0.2743	0.3434
Total Risk Alpha	0.4213	0.1043	0.2074	0.3184	0.5105	0.0948	0.2825	0.3223	0.2138	0.1875
Sortino Ratio	0.4748	0.129	0.1587	0.145	0.2959	0.0834	0.217	0.1901	0.1603	0.134
Downside Variance	0.9626	1.55	3.69	10.85	4.96	9.66	2.66	6.29	3.28	4.74
Standard Deviation	1.41	1.56	2.12	2.95	2.8	3.02	1.76	2.89	1.84	2.21
Kurtosis	1.45	0.789	(0.29)	0.5005	(0.05)	0.2542	1.86	0.2301	1.25	1.17
Potential Upside	3.24	3.25	3.9	4.8	6.26	5.59	2.85	6.08	3.82	3.45
Treynor Ratio	0.6053	0.233	0.3042	0.3591	0.3914	1.47	1.52	0.363	0.2762	2.57
Maximum Drawdown	6.59	6.87	9.08	14.22	12.44	13.88	8.02	12.48	10.08	12.86
Variance	1.98	2.45	4.49	8.69	7.87	9.11	3.11	8.34	3.38	4.88
Market Risk Adjusted Performance	0.6153	0.243	0.3142	0.3691	0.4014	1.48	1.53	0.373	0.2862	2.58
Risk Adjusted Performance	0.3116	0.1237	0.1489	0.1571	0.2168	0.0953	0.1991	0.16	0.1638	0.1385
Skewness	0.8912	0.7963	0.1419	(0.30)	0.4071	(0.11)	0.578	0.322	0.2408	0.2618
Semi Deviation	0.3261	0.9807	1.58	2.72	1.72	2.88	1.28	2.02	1.41	1.89
Information Ratio	0.3311	0.1026	0.1438	0.1619	0.2349	0.0858	0.2004	0.1651	0.158	0.1321
Value At Risk	(1.42)	(1.80)	(2.95)	(4.33)	(3.59)	(4.33)	(2.28)	(3.66)	(2.18)	(3.15)
Expected Short fall	(1.32)	(1.31)	(1.83)	(2.33)	(2.55)	(2.44)	(1.46)	(2.44)	(1.39)	(1.83)
Downside Deviation	0.9811	1.24	1.92	3.29	2.23	3.11	1.63	2.51	1.81	2.18
Semi Variance	0.1064	0.9618	2.5	7.41	2.96	8.28	1.64	4.1	2.0	3.57

PPG Industries Competition Performance Charts

Five steps to successful analysis of PPG Industries Competition

PPG Industries' competitive analysis is the process of researching and evaluating its competitive landscape. It provides an understanding of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) faced by PPG Industries in relation to its competition. PPG Industries' competition analysis typically involves several steps, including:

Identifying the key players in the market: This involves identifying the major competitors of PPG Industries in the market, both direct and indirect, as well as new entrants and disruptive technologies.
Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each competitor: This involves evaluating each competitor's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as product offerings, market share, brand recognition, financial performance, and distribution channels.
Understanding the competitive environment: This involves evaluating the regulatory environment, economic conditions, and other factors that may impact PPG Industries' competitive landscape.
Identifying opportunities and threats: This involves using the information gathered during the analysis to identify opportunities and threats to PPG Industries, and developing a strategy to address them.
Evaluating the competitive landscape: This involves understanding the competitive dynamics of the market, such as pricing, marketing, and distribution strategies, as well as analyzing the competitive advantage of each competitor.

Competitive analysis is an essential tool for businesses to stay ahead of the competition and can be used to inform decision-making and strategy development. By understanding the competitive landscape and staying informed about the activities of competitors, a company can make more informed decisions and improve its overall performance.

Complement your PPG Industries position

In addition to having PPG Industries in your portfolios, you can quickly add positions using our predefined set of ideas and optimize them against your very unique investing style. A single investing idea is a collection of funds, stocks, ETFs, or cryptocurrencies that are programmatically selected from a pull of investment themes. After you determine your investment opportunity, you can then find an optimal portfolio that will maximize potential returns on the chosen idea or minimize its exposure to market volatility.

Did You Try This Idea?

Run Large Blend Funds Thematic Idea Now

Large Blend Funds

Fund or Etfs that invest in stocks of large organizations that have characteristics of both growth and value companies. The Large Blend Funds theme has 45 constituents at this time.

You can either use a buy-and-hold strategy to lock in the entire theme or actively trade it to take advantage of the short-term price volatility of individual constituents. Macroaxis can help you discover thousands of investment opportunities in different asset classes. In addition, you can partner with us for reliable portfolio optimization as you plan to utilize Large Blend Funds Theme or any other thematic opportunities.

View All Next

Launch

When determining whether PPG Industries is a strong investment it is important to analyze PPG Industries' competitive position within its industry, examining market share, product or service uniqueness, and competitive advantages. Beyond financials and market position, potential investors should also consider broader economic conditions, industry trends, and any regulatory or geopolitical factors that may impact PPG Industries' future performance. For an informed investment choice regarding PPG Stock, refer to the following important reports:

How To Invest In PPG

Details

Is PPG Stock a good investment?

Details

What is PPG Industries' Net Worth?

Details

Largest Specialty Chemicals Companies

View

Largest Basic Materials Companies

View

Check out PPG Industries Correlation with its peers.

For more detail on how to invest in PPG Stock please use our How to Invest in PPG Industries guide.

You can also try the Commodity Directory module to find actively traded commodities issued by global exchanges.

Can Specialty Chemicals industry sustain growth momentum? Does PPG have expansion opportunities? Factors like these will boost the valuation of PPG Industries. Anticipated expansion of PPG directly elevates investor willingness to pay premium valuations. Determining accurate worth demands scrutiny of both present operating results and projected expansion capacity. Evaluating PPG Industries demands reviewing these metrics collectively while recognizing certain factors exert disproportionate influence.

The market value of PPG Industries is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of PPG that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of PPG Industries' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is PPG Industries' true underlying value. Market participants employ diverse analytical approaches to determine fair value and identify buying opportunities when prices dip below calculated worth. Because PPG Industries' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect PPG Industries' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.

It's important to distinguish between PPG Industries' intrinsic value and market price, which are calculated using different methodologies. Investment decisions regarding PPG Industries should consider multiple factors including financial performance, growth metrics, competitive position, and professional analysis. Meanwhile, PPG Industries' quoted price indicates the marketplace figure where supply meets demand through bilateral consent.

Macroaxis helps investors of all levels and skills to maximize the upside of all their holdings and minimize the risk associated with market volatility, economic swings, and company-specific events. View terms and conditions

Feedback Blog

Made with optimal in San Francisco

2026 Macroaxis LLC

PPG Competitors

PPG Industries vs Axalta Coating Correlation

Poor diversification

Moving together with PPG Stock

Moving against PPG Stock

Specify up to 10 symbols:

PPG Industries Competition Correlation Matrix

Risk-Adjusted Indicators

PPG Industries Competitive Analysis

PPG Industries Competition Performance Charts

Five steps to successful analysis of PPG Industries Competition

Complement your PPG Industries position

Did You Try This Idea?

Run Large Blend Funds Thematic Idea Now

Large Blend Funds

COMMON DESTINATIONS

MAIN CATEGORIES

COMPANY