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PPG Industries PPG Return on assets

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.9B+6.7%
Gross profit$1.7B+7.3%
Operating income$636.0M+4.8%
Net income$382.0M+2.4%
EPS (diluted)$1.70+4.3%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$1.6B-14.0%
Total debt$7.0B+13.7%
Total equity$8.1B+17.0%
Total assets$22.2B+4.8%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$33.0M+283%
CapEx$196.0M-6.2%
Free cash flow-$163.0M+28.2%

Valuation

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Market cap$26.11B-3.6%
Enterprise value$31.58B+0.7%
P/E16.5×
P/S1.6×-0.1×

Profitability

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Gross margin41.4%0.0pp
Operating margin16.6%
Net margin9.8%

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity21.1%
Debt / equity0.9×0.0×
Current ratio1.6×+0.3×

Where this comes from

Calculated from PPG Industries’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: PPG Industries’s 10-Q, filed April 29, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is PPG Industries's return on assets?
PPG Industries (PPG) reported return on assets of 7.3% in Q1 2026.
What is the long-term trend for PPG Industries's return on assets?
Over 2 years (2021 to 2023), PPG Industries's return on assets has grown at a -6.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 27.9% to 24.5%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.