PPL (PPL) Stock Price, News & Analysis

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" PPL shares.
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10 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for PPL's shares. Their PPL share price targets range from $25.00 to $52.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $32.45 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.4% from the stock's current price.
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PPL's stock was trading at $27.10 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, PPL stock has increased by 3.8% and is now trading at $28.13.
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PPL saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 19,590,000 shares, an increase of 21.2% from the April 30th total of 16,170,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,810,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days. Approximately 2.7% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August 2nd 2024.
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PPL Co. (NYSE:PPL) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.54 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.52 by $0.02. The utilities provider earned $2.30 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. PPL had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.80% and a net margin of 9.29%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 4.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.48 EPS.
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PPL declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 15th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.2575 per share on Monday, July 1st. This represents a $1.03 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 10th.
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PPL (NYSE:PPL) pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.66%. The dividend payout ratio is 100.00%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, PPL will have a dividend payout ratio of 55.98% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of PPL (NYSE:PPL) stock in their portfolio include Timothy Plan Market Neutral ETF (TPMN), Goldman Sachs ETF Trust Goldman (GPOW), Alerian Energy Infrastructure ETF (ENFR), VanEck Energy Income ETF (EINC), Global X MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF (MLPX), USCF Midstream Energy Income Fund (UMI), Pacer American Energy Independence ETF (USAI) and Global X MSCI Pakistan ETF (PAK).

PPL issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 1st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.63-1.75 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.70.

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PPL's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.66%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.76%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.64%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.57%), Energy Income Partners LLC (0.50%) and Reaves W H & Co. Inc. (0.42%). Insiders that own company stock include David J Bonenberger, Gregory N Dudkin, John R Crockett III, Joseph P Bergstein Jr, Stephanie R Raymond and Vincent Sorgi.
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Shares of PPL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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