Report
Charles Gross
EUR 98.48 For Business Accounts Only

With the Comex acquisition closed, PPG looks to deploy more excess cash.

PPG Industries announced it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Akzo Nobel. According to Dutch law, PPG may not approach Akzo again for six months. We are maintaining our EUR 64 fair value estimate and no-moat rating for Akzo. Throughout this courtship, we held our Akzo fair value estimate to a stand-alone basis as we viewed a successful transaction as unlikely. This was due not to the merits of the potential tie-up, but rather Akzo management’s clear lack of interest in the deal and the stren...
Underlying
PPG Industries Inc.

PPG Industries manufactures and distributes a range of paints, coatings and specialty materials. The company's business is comprised of two reportable business segments: Performance Coatings, which primarily supplies a variety of protective and decorative coatings, sealants and finishes along with paint strippers, stains and related chemicals, as well as transparencies and transparent armor; and Industrial Coatings, which primarily supplies a variety of protective and decorative coatings and finishes along with adhesives, sealants, metal pretreatment products, optical monomers and coatings, precipitated silicas and other specialty materials.

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Charles Gross

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