What does specialty products — restructuring charges mean?

The periodic costs incurred by the Specialty Products segment to reorganize or downsize operations.

How do you interpret specialty products — restructuring charges?

An increase suggests active operational restructuring, which may temporarily depress earnings but aims for future efficiency gains; a decrease indicates a more stable operational environment.

How does specialty products — restructuring charges compare across companies?

Comparable to restructuring or impairment charges reported by industrial peers in their respective segment disclosures.

RPM International RPM Specialty Products — Restructuring Charges

Discontinued — last reported Q1 '20

Similar metrics at other companies

GTLSSpecialty Products — Restructuring Charges

$300K-25.0%

SNAProduct And Services, Excluding Financial Services — Restructuring costs

$625K—

ESIPerformance Applications — Restructuring Costs

$4.2M+180%

GTLSSpecialty Products — Restructuring costs

$300K-25.0%

CCKOperating Segments — Restructuring Charges

$3.25M+8.3%

IPCorporate — Restructuring And Other Related Charges

-$5.25M-131%

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.6B+8.9%

Gross profit$634.8M+11.9%

Net income$51.4M-1.3%

EPS (diluted)$0.400.0%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$294.2M+21.6%

Total debt$2.9B+21.1%

Total equity$3.1B+17.7%

Total assets$7.9B+19.1%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$73.5M-19.7%

CapEx$47.8M-17.8%

Free cash flow$25.6M-23.1%

Valuation

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Market cap$13.78B-8.2%

Enterprise value$16.39B-4.8%

P/E20.7×-2.6×

P/S1.8×-0.3×

Profitability

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Gross margin41.4%+0.3pp

Net margin8.6%-0.2pp

FCF margin7.5%-0.3pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity22.9%-2.8pp

Debt / equity0.9×0.0×

Current ratio2.3×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by RPM International in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:RestructuringCharges.

The official record: RPM International’s 10-Q, filed October 3, 2019, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does specialty products — restructuring charges mean?: The periodic costs incurred by the Specialty Products segment to reorganize or downsize operations.
How do you interpret specialty products — restructuring charges?: An increase suggests active operational restructuring, which may temporarily depress earnings but aims for future efficiency gains; a decrease indicates a more stable operational environment.
How does specialty products — restructuring charges compare across companies?: Comparable to restructuring or impairment charges reported by industrial peers in their respective segment disclosures.