PPGPPG Industries
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though cheap against its own history.
Priced for ~7% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 14.8 vs a 22.6 median over 40 quarters (−34% vs median).
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What PPG's price assumes
PPG Industries trades at 14.8× earnings against 29.4× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 29.4 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.64
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.7%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 4.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +6.6%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +6.6% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +9.3% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 3.25
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 1.98
- Basic Materials median P/E203 names
- 20.7
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E43 names
- 29.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.23B
- Market capitalisation
- $26.4B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +0.92%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +9.3%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $130.78 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $158.32 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $171.68 |
| 52-week range | $93.07 – $129.96 |
| Today | $103.97 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Chemicals
The closest names by size in the same industry