RPM International
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RPM International Inc is a multinational holding company with subsidiaries that manufacture and market high-performance specialty coatings, sealants and building materials. Industrial brands include Stonhard, Tremco, illbruck, Carboline, Flowcrete, Universal Sealants and Euco. RPM's consumer products are used by professionals and do-it-yourselfers for home maintenance and improvement, boat repair and maintenance, and by hobbyists. Consumer brands include Zinsser, Rust-Oleum, DAP, Varathane and Testors.
The company has approximately 9,700 employees worldwide who work in 82 manufacturing facilities in 20 countries. Its products are sold in 150 countries and territories. It is the eighth largest paint and coating company in the world.
RPM is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RPM. Its shares are owned by some 300 institutions and 97,000 individual investors. It ranks among the top 75 in total shares held by BetterInvesting investment clubs and the top 100 in total value of shares held. RPM has increased its cash dividend paid to stockholders for 39 consecutive years, which places the company in an elite category of less than half of one percent of all 19,000 publicly traded U.S. companies. Only 47 other companies, besides RPM, have consecutively paid an increasing annual dividend for this period of time or longer, according to the fall 2012 edition of the Mergent Handbook of Dividend Achievers.
Over the ten-year period from May 31, 2002, to 2012, RPM has outperformed the S&P 500 by 64 percent in total return generated for its shareholders, which includes both capital appreciation and reinvestment of dividends.