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

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

PPL announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 16th. Investors of record on Friday, June 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, July 2nd. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.44%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) released its earnings results on Tuesday, August, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.55 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.01. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.85 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.75 billion. PPL had a return on equity of 15.30% and a net margin of 18.08%. 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 updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, August, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.25-2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.34.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for PPL's stock. Their forecasts range from $29.00 to $48.00. On average, they expect PPL's stock price to reach $34.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.4% 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 12.2 days. Approximately 6.9% of the company's stock 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 Common Stock (ENLAY), Southern (SO), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Edison International (EIX), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), Korea Electric Power (KEP), FirstEnergy (FE), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), Avangrid (AGR) and Entergy (ETR).

Media headlines about PPL stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing 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 positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. PPL earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the utilities provider an impact score of 45.59 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for PPL.

PPL's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional 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 acquired 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 $30.12.

PPL has a market capitalization of $20.18 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]