PPG Industries, Inc. vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? PPG Industries, Inc. trades at $117.3 (market cap $25.79B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $368.33. The key difference: PPG Industries, Inc. pays a 2.56% dividend while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, PPG Industries, Inc. nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| PPG | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $25.79B | — |
Sector | Basic Materials | — |
52-Week High | $131.56 | $374.36 |
52-Week Low | $94.34 | $305.74 |
Enterprise Value | $31.90B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.56% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
PPG is a global producer of coatings. The company is the world's largest producer of coatings after the purchase of selected Akzo Nobel assets. PPG's products are sold to a wide variety of end users, including the automotive, aerospace, construction, and industrial markets. The company has a footprint in many regions around the globe, with less than half of sales coming from North America in recent years. PPG is focused on its coatings and specialty products and expansion into emerging regions, as exemplified by the Comex acquisition.
Read more on PPG →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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