RPM International (RP8) Stock Price & Analysis
RP8 Stock Chart & Stats
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- Average Volume (3M)
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- Market Cap
- CHF 11.22B
- Enterprise Value
- CHF 15.68B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- CHF 312.84M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- CHF 2.74B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 19.4
- Beta
- 1.12
- Next Earnings
- Jan 06, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 1.03
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 1.98%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Strong Profitability And Returns
RPM’s healthy gross, operating, and net margins demonstrate meaningful value capture across its specialty coatings, sealants, and building-material businesses. Strong returns on equity support reinvestment, resilience, and continued funding for operational improvements and growth initiatives.
Growth In Performance Coatings And Emerging Markets
Record Performance Coatings results and more than 20% emerging-market revenue growth indicate durable demand for engineered solutions in buildings, energy, and infrastructure. These applications and geographic gains broaden RPM’s growth base beyond mature construction and consumer markets.
Debt Reduction And Balance-sheet Capacity
Debt reduction and substantial liquidity improve RPM’s ability to withstand operating volatility while continuing investment, acquisitions, dividends, and share repurchases. Lower leverage also gives management greater flexibility to pursue specialty-product expansion without overextending the balance sheet.
Bears Say
Persistent Inflation Pressures Margins
Elevated raw-material inflation is currently outpacing pricing and operational benefits, creating a direct risk to gross-margin sustainability. Even with planned price increases, delayed recovery can pressure earnings, require repeated customer negotiations, and limit near-term operating leverage.
Construction Products Organic Weakness
Organic contraction in Construction Products exposes RPM to weaker project activity in important end markets, while lower volumes reduce fixed-cost absorption. Sustained softness could delay recovery in the segment and make consolidated growth more dependent on acquisitions and other businesses.
Fiscal 2027 Outlook Was Reduced
The lower EBITDA outlook signals that inflation, facility startup costs, and tougher comparisons may remain meaningful constraints over the coming quarters. Reduced earnings visibility can limit operating flexibility and indicates that margin recovery may take longer than previously expected.
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Company Description
RPM International
RPM International Inc. provides specialty chemicals for the construction, industrial, specialty, and consumer markets. It operates in four segments: CPG, PCG, Consumer, and SPG. The company offers waterproofing, coating, and traditional roofing systems; sealants, air barriers, tapes, and foams; residential home weatherization systems; roofing and building maintenance services; sealing and bonding, subfloor preparation, flooring, and glazing solutions; resin flooring systems, polyurethane, MMA waterproof, epoxy floor paint and coatings, concrete repair, and protection products; fire stopping and intumescent steel coating, and manufacturing industry solutions; and rolled asphalt roofing materials and chemical admixtures. It also provides concrete and masonry admixtures, concrete fibers, cement performance enhancers, curing and sealing compounds, structural grouts and mortars, epoxy adhesives, injection resins, polyurethane foams, floor hardeners and toppings, joint fillers, industrial and architectural coatings, decorative color/stains/stamps, restoration materials, concrete panel wall systems, flooring systems, fluorescent colorants and pigments, shellac-based-specialty and marine coatings, and fuel additives. It offers fiberglass reinforced plastic gratings and shapes; corrosion-control coating, containment and railcar lining, fire and sound proofing, heat and cryogenic insulation, and specialty construction products; amine curing agents, reactive diluents, and epoxy resins; fire and water damage restoration, carpet cleaning, and disinfecting products; wood treatments, coatings, and touch-up products; nail enamels, polishes, and coating components; paint contractors and DIYers, concrete restoration and flooring, metallic and faux finish coatings, cleaners, and hobby paints and cements; and caulks, adhesives, insulating foams, and patches, spackling, glazing, and repair products. The company was incorporated in 1947 and is headquartered in Medina, Ohio.
- Sector
- Basicmaterials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- CEO
- Frank C. Sullivan
- Employees
- 17,546
- Website
- www.rpminc.com
- Address
- 2628 Pearl Road, Medina, OH, 44256, US
RPM International (RP8) Earnings & Revenues
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RP8 Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was predominantly positive: RPM reported record first-quarter sales, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted EPS; achieved record results in Performance Coatings and Consumer; generated strong cash flow; reduced debt; and maintained substantial balance-sheet capacity. These strengths were partly offset by Construction Products weakness, elevated raw-material and freight inflation, lower gross margins, supply-related product shortages, and reduced fiscal-year guidance. Management characterized several Construction Products and supply-chain issues as temporary and expressed confidence in pricing, operational improvements, emerging-market growth, and longer-term margin recovery.
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