PPG Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes a range of paints, coatings, and specialty materials. Co. operates through two segments: Performance Coatings and Industrial Coatings. The Performance Coatings segment primarily supplies a variety of protective and decorative coatings, adhesives, sealants and finishes along with pavement marking products, paint strippers, stains and related chemicals, transparencies, transparent armor, and paint films.
When researching a stock like PPG Industries, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from PPG Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for PPG stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the PPG 200 day moving average ("PPG 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the PPG 50 day moving average ("PPG 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for PPG Industries. |