Koppers Stock Hits New 52-Week High (KOP)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Koppers Holdings (NYSE:KOP) hit a new 52-week high Friday as it traded at $43.30 compared with its previous 52-Week high of $42.88. Koppers is changing hands at $42.92 with 18,559 shares traded as of 9:32 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 120,300 shares over the past 30 days.

Koppers has a market cap of $870.3 million and is part of the industrial goods sector and materials & construction industry. Shares are up 19.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

Koppers Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides carbon compounds and commercial wood treatment products to aluminum, railroad, specialty chemical, utility, rubber, concrete, and steel industries. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.8, below the average materials & construction industry P/E ratio of 19.9 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 16.4.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Koppers as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated. You can view the full Koppers Ratings Report.

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