NYSE:PPL - PPL Stock Price, News, & Analysis

PPL trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PPL."

PPL declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 16th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Wednesday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.86%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.56 by $0.03. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.87 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.98 billion. PPL had a net margin of 19.17% and a return on equity of 15.23%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.56 EPS. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, November, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.30 to $2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.36.

10 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for PPL's shares. Their predictions range from $30.00 to $36.00. On average, they expect PPL's share price to reach $32.6667 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

Headlines about PPL stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a coverage optimism score of 1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

PPL saw a decline in short interest in November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 44,904,930 shares, a decline of 5.4% from the November 15th total of 47,445,769 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,456,892 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.2 days. Currently, 6.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View PPL's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to PPL include NextEra Energy (NEE), Enel S.p.A. ADS (ENLAY), Dominion Energy (D), Southern (SO), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Eversource Energy (ES), DTE Energy (DTE), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Avangrid (AGR), Entergy (ETR) and Fortis (FTS).

PPL's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.16%), Vanguard Group Inc (7.48%), FMR LLC (6.77%), Zimmer Partners LP (3.13%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.40%) and Federated Investors Inc. PA (2.06%). Company insiders that own PPL stock include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Joseph P Bergstein, Jr, Paul W Thompson, Robert A Symons, Victor A Staffieri, Vincent Sorgi and William H Spence. View Institutional Ownership Trends for PPL.

PPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Luminus Management LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Deutsche Bank AG, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC, Reaves W H & Co. Inc. and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Victor A Staffieri and Vincent Sorgi. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Morgan Stanley, FMR LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Legal & General Group Plc, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. and Affinity Investment Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

Shares of PPL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.97.

PPL has a market capitalization of $22.03 billion and generates $7.45 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.13 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.25 on an earnings per share basis. PPL employs 12,512 workers across the globe.

The official website for PPL is http://www.pplweb.com.

PPL's mailing address is TWO N NINTH ST, ALLENTOWN PA, 18101. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 610-774-5151 or via email at [email protected]