What’s Going On With Specialty Coatings Company RPM Stock Today?

April 4, 2024

RPM International Inc. RPM shares are trading lower after the company reported third-quarter FY24 results. Sales rose 0.4% Y/Y to $1.523 billion, slightly beating the consensus of $1.518 billion. Adjusted EPS of $0.52 exceeded the consensus of $0.46. The company witnessed positive pricing in all segments, with volume growth being strongest in businesses serving infrastructure, reshoring, and high-performance […]

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US has a shortage of manufacturing workers and it threatens global competitiveness

April 4, 2024

The U.S. manufacturing sector faces a widening jobs gap over the next decade as it looks to sustain the growth it has experienced in the wake of the COVID pandemic, but as many as half could go unfilled, according to a new study. The report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute (MI) projects that as […]

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RPM International (RPM) Q3 Earnings & Sales Beat Estimates

April 4, 2024

RPM International Inc. RPM reported third-quarter fiscal 2024 (ended Feb 29, 2024) results, with earnings and sales beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Both metrics increased on a year-over-year basis. Shares of RPM lost 2.6% following the earnings release on Apr 4, 2024. Inside the Headlines RPM reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of 52 cents. […]

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Mexico returns to the list of 25 most attractive countries to invest in

April 4, 2024

Mexico returned to consultancy Kearney’s ranking of the 25 most attractive countries for foreign direct investment (FDI), helped by companies’ interest in nearshoring. “Mexico rejoins the main index at 21st after a five-year hiatus, perhaps owing to the benefits it is reaping from nearshoring,” the FDI 2024 confidence index report said. See the report in […]

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A look at Japanese equities and the developments driving the market

April 4, 2024

Change is occurring in Japan and its implications are reverberating across varying aspects of the economy, particularly capital markets. On March 14th, at the Senior Leadership Forum in Tokyo, Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, shared Japan’s vision to develop a set of “Asset Owner Principles” and pursue reform through dialogue with global investors. The Government […]

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Brazil, Mexico and Argentina enter the top 25 of FDI attraction in the world

April 3, 2024

Mexico was ranked 21st in the Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index worldwide, which ranks the economies that most attract foreign capital, and thus entered this classification that only includes the top 25 places and from which it was left out in the last five years. The United States remained at the top of this […]

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AI May Be The Key To Unlocking The $14.7B 3D Printing Industry

April 3, 2024

According to Additive Manufacturing Research, the 3D printing industry reached $14.7 billion in 2023. More importantly, it’s estimated to be on track to reach nearly $58 billion by 2032, thanks to key global initiatives. However, there’s a significant challenge: the technology is currently inefficient and costly, particularly for metal 3D printing. Thankfully, the emergence of […]

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RPM International (RPM) to Post Q3 Earnings: What to Expect?

April 1, 2024

RPM International Inc. RPM is slated to report third-quarter fiscal 2024 results on Apr 4, before the opening bell. In the last reported quarter, the company’s earnings and net sales missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.8% and 2.1%, respectively. On a year-over-year basis, earnings increased 10.9% on almost flat sales. The company’s earnings topped […]

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How shockproof is your supply chain, really?

April 1, 2024

While global trade has risen dramatically since the 1990s and has continued to improve the lives of millions of people, geopolitical concerns have lately been rising too. Terms such as “reshoring” and “friendshoring” have seen increased use in corporate presentations by more than 20-fold in the past few years.1Shekhar Aiyar et al., Geoeconomic fragmentation and […]

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How Latin America and the Caribbean can benefit from foreign direct investment and reshoring

April 1, 2024

Other World Bank studies confirm that Latin America and the Caribbean could increase competitiveness. The World Bank Logistics Performance Index puts Latin America and the Caribbean squarely in the middle of the 139 countries ranked. Among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean invest among the least in infrastructure as a share of GDP – roughly a third of […]

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