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 Friday, August 24th. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, October 1st. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.25%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.55 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.01. The utilities provider earned $1.85 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates 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 Thursday, November 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, November 1st at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 8883468683.

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.

12 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for PPL's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $48.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's stock price to reach $34.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

PPL saw a drop in short interest in the month of September. As of September 28th, there was short interest totalling 40,956,084 shares, a drop of 13.8% from the September 14th total of 47,499,388 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,649,131 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.8 days. Currently, 5.9% of the company's stock 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 (ENLAY), Dominion Energy (D), Southern (SO), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Edison International (EIX), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), Avangrid (AGR) and Korea Electric Power (KEP).

PPL's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Bank of Montreal Can (0.38%), Strs Ohio (0.26%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.14%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.12%), Foundry Partners LLC (0.09%) and Berkshire Asset Management LLC PA (0.08%). 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 Denali Advisors LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Andra AP fonden, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Atria Investments LLC, Town & Country Bank & Trust CO dba First Bankers Trust CO, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL and Raymond James Trust N.A.. 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 Personal Capital Advisors Corp, Centre Asset Management LLC, Berkshire Asset Management LLC PA, Bank of Montreal Can, Strs Ohio, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Foundry Partners LLC and Aperio Group 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 $31.22.

PPL has a market capitalization of $21.55 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]