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 Wednesday, May 16th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 8th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, July 2nd. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.50%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.55 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.01. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.85 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.75 billion. PPL had a net margin of 18.08% and a return on equity of 15.30%. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 7th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, August, 7th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.25-2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.34.

10 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for PPL's shares. Their predictions range from $29.00 to $48.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's stock price to reach $34.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 16.6% 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, 4 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

PPL saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 52,911,197 shares, an increase of 0.1% from the July 13th total of 52,967,824 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,324,731 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 12.2 days. Currently, 6.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. View PPL's Current Options Chain.

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

Media headlines about PPL stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. PPL earned a coverage optimism score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the utilities provider an impact score of 46.04 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for PPL.

PPL's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.48%), FMR LLC (6.76%), Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec (2.61%), Federated Investors Inc. PA (2.10%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.56%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.55%). 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 Hexavest Inc., BlackRock Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Morgan Stanley, TD Asset Management Inc., Epoch Investment Partners Inc. and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Luminus Management LLC, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Millennium Management LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, PointState Capital LP and Renaissance Technologies 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 $29.81.

PPL has a market capitalization of $20.90 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.

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]