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What RPM reported in its latest quarter
RPM International Inc. said sales for the quarter ended August 31, 2026, were $2.22 billion, up 4.8% year over year. Adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) rose 5.3% to $1.98, and adjusted EBITDA reached a record $405.5 million, up 4.5%. These are company-reported results; adjusted measures are not the same as GAAP results. RPM’s October 6, 2026 results release provides the figures and the company’s explanations.
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RPM credited organic growth in Performance Coatings and Consumer, along with manufacturing, procurement and selling, general and administrative (SG&A) efficiencies. It also cited raw-material inflation and a temporary slowdown in Construction Products as challenges. The release does not establish a market-wide construction statistic, so the slowdown should be read as RPM’s description of its own business conditions rather than a measure of the entire construction industry.
What the latest outlook says
For fiscal Q2 2027, RPM forecast low- to mid-single-digit growth in sales and adjusted EBITDA. For fiscal 2027 as a whole, its October 6 guidance called for mid-single-digit growth in both measures. These are management’s outlooks, not reported results. The October guidance is the current outlook in the cited releases.
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That outlook is narrower in wording than the range RPM gave on July 22, 2026: sales growth of 3% to 7% and adjusted EBITDA growth of 5% to 10%. The July release also reported fiscal 2026 record sales of $7.86 billion, up 6.7%, and adjusted diluted EPS of $5.53, up 4.3%. RPM’s fiscal 2026 results and July outlook are useful context, but they predate the October update.
How construction weakness affected the earlier results
The clearest earnings impact in the period described by the construction-slowdown framing came in fiscal Q2 2026, reported January 8, 2026. RPM recorded a 0.5% organic sales decline; adjusted EBIT fell 11.2% to $226.6 million, and adjusted diluted EPS fell 13.7% to $1.20. Organic sales exclude the effects of acquisitions and currency, so the decline is not interchangeable with a change in total reported sales. The Q2 release gives the reported results.
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RPM’s management attributed slower growth to longer lead times on construction projects, citing the extended federal government shutdown and soft do-it-yourself (DIY) demand as contributors. Chairman and CEO Frank C. Sullivan said the shutdown “contributed to the trend of longer lead times on construction projects and further pressured already negative consumer sentiment.” This is management’s explanation of RPM’s results and customer conditions, not an independently measured estimate of construction activity. The same release announced optimization actions that RPM estimated would provide $100 million in annual benefits; that was a management estimate, not a guaranteed realized saving. Sullivan’s statement and the company’s explanation appear in the January release.
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The Q2 weakness did not continue unchanged through the next reported quarters. In fiscal Q3 2026, RPM reported record sales of $1.61 billion, up 8.9%, and adjusted diluted EPS of $0.57, up 62.9%. The company cited high-performance-building solutions, acquisitions, favorable currency and a rebound from the government shutdown, partly offset by soft DIY demand. RPM’s April 8 Q3 release describes those results and drivers.
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Fiscal 2026 then ended with record annual sales, and the latest Q1 FY2027 release again reported growth in sales and adjusted earnings. The current caution is more specific: RPM noted a temporary slowdown in Construction Products alongside raw-material inflation. That sequence makes the headline’s construction concern relevant, but it does not describe the most recent results as an overall earnings contraction.
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How to read the earnings measures
- Sales: Reported sales include the business as reported; organic sales are a separate growth measure that removes acquisition and currency effects. Do not treat the Q2 organic decline as a total-sales decline.
- Adjusted EPS, EBIT and EBITDA: These are explicitly adjusted measures in RPM’s releases. They should not be presented as GAAP earnings or compared with GAAP figures without accounting for the differences.
- Segment and management commentary: Performance Coatings, Consumer and Construction Products observations describe RPM’s operations. Management’s explanations about project timing, shutdown effects and demand are attributed views, not independent market measurements.
Sources and reporting dates
- RPM International: fiscal Q1 2027 results, October 6, 2026
- RPM International: fiscal Q2 2027 and fiscal 2027 guidance, October 6, 2026
- RPM International: fiscal 2026 results and outlook, July 22, 2026
- RPM International: fiscal Q3 2026 results, April 8, 2026
- RPM International: fiscal Q2 2026 results, January 8, 2026
- RPM International: fiscal Q2 2026 management commentary, January 8, 2026
- RPM International newsroom: reported-quarter listing
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