RPM International

RPM International Inc.
Company typePublic
NYSE: RPM
S&P 400 Component
IndustryPaint
Coatings
Industrial coatings
Building Materials
Sealants
Adhesives
Founded1947 as Republic Powdered Metals Inc.
HeadquartersMedina, Ohio, United States
Key people
Frank C. Sullivan (Chairman and CEO)
Russell L. Gordon (CFO)
RevenueIncrease$7.3 billion USD (2023)
Increase$755 million USD (2023)
Increase$478.7 million USD (2023)
Total assetsIncrease$6.7 million USD (2023)
Total equityIncrease$2.1 million USD (2023)
Number of employees
17,300 (2023)
Websitewww.rpminc.com Edit this at Wikidata
Footnotes / references
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RPM International Inc. is an American multinational company with subsidiaries that manufacture and market specialty coatings, sealants and building materials. Industrial brands include Tremco, Carboline, Universal Sealants, Stonhard, RPM/Belgium, Euco, Day-Glo and Dryvit. RPM's consumer products are used by professionals and do-it-yourselfers for home maintenance and improvement and by hobbyists. Consumer brands include Zinsser, Rust-Oleum, DAP, Varathane, Mean Green, Krud Kutter, Concrobium, Moldex and Testors.[3][1]

The company is headquartered in Medina, Ohio, and has approximately 17,300 employees and operates 121 manufacturing facilities around the world.[3] Its products are sold in 170 countries and territories.[3] It is the fifth largest paint and coating company in the world.[4]

RPM is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RPM. Its shares are owned by 824 institutions and 194,030 individual investors.[1] It ranks among the top 200 in total shares held by BetterInvesting investment clubs.[5] RPM has increased its cash dividend paid to stockholders for 48 consecutive years.[6] Only 41 other companies, besides RPM, have consecutively paid an increasing annual dividend for this period of time or longer, according to the fall 2020 edition of the Mergent Handbook of Dividend Achievers.[7]

Over the ten-year period from May 31, 2011, to 2021, RPM has outperformed the S&P 500 by 33 percent in total return generated for its shareholders, which includes both capital appreciation and reinvestment of dividends.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d "RPM Reports Record Fiscal 2023 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results" (PDF). U.S.: RPM International Inc. 3 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Form 10-K". RPM International Inc. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "RPM International Inc. Overview". RPM International Inc. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Coatings World Top Companies Report". Rodman Publishing. 28 July 2021.
  5. ^ "BetterInvesting Magazine Top 100 Companies" (PDF). BetterInvesting. April 2021.
  6. ^ "RPM Increases Cash Dividend for 48th Consecutive Year". RPM International Inc. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  7. ^ Mergent Handbook of Dividend Achievers, U.S.: Mergent Inc., October 2020, ISBN 978-1641415736