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PPG Industries PPG

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Price History

The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.

$87.66$115.92$144.18$172.44
2021-102026-09 · $104.52

Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $93.92 and $116.32; nine in ten between $87.66 and $124.62.

Tested against this asset’s own history: across 486 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 71% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-59.3%-39.5%-19.8%0.0%
1985-012026-09 · -41.8%

Worst drawdown: −59%, peaking Jul 2007 and bottoming Feb 2009 — 39 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$50,100
Value today
$212,176
Return
+323.5%
Months invested
501

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $91,370 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +132.2%.

Lump sum instead — $50,100 all at once in Jan 1985: $1,081,074 (+2057.8%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (May 2021): $5,387 on $6,500 invested (-17.1%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1985-01: +323.5%

About PPG Industries

PPG Industries, Inc. is an American supplier of paints, coatings, and specialty materials based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It operates in more than 70 countries globally. A member of the Fortune 500, PPG is the second largest coatings company in the world by revenue, behind Sherwin-Williams. It is headquartered in PPG Place, an office and retail complex in downtown Pittsburgh, and is known for its glass facade designed by Postmodern architect Philip Johnson. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under materials and specialty chemicals, with a market cap of about $23.2B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.6/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (4.0/5) and leverage / financial (3.0/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.6/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/521.4
  • Max drawdown from ATH3/559.3
  • Beta vs S&P 5003/51.1
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5209.2m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity3/50.90
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality4.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility4/540.5
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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