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 Tuesday, May 14th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.4125 per share on Monday, July 1st. This represents a $1.65 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.56%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $0.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.03. The utilities provider had revenue of $2.08 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.19 billion. PPL had a net margin of 23.79% and a return on equity of 14.52%. The company's revenue was down 2.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.74 earnings per share. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 6th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL updated its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 2nd. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.50-2.80 for the period. PPL also updated its FY19 guidance to $2.30-2.50 EPS.

11 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for PPL's shares. Their predictions range from $28.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's share price to reach $34.6250 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 16.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

News stories about PPL stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a news sentiment score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is very likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

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PPL's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.19%), FMR LLC (5.74%), Zimmer Partners LP (2.93%), Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec (2.71%), Federated Investors Inc. PA (1.78%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.51%). Company insiders that own PPL stock include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Joseph P Bergstein, Jr, Paul W Thompson, 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 FMR LLC, BlackRock Inc., Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, FIL Ltd, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Morgan Stanley, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and Reaves W H & Co. Inc.. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson and William H Spence. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Federated Investors Inc. PA, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Geode Capital Management LLC and State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D. 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 $29.69.

PPL has a market capitalization of $21.43 billion and generates $7.79 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.83 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.40 on an earnings per share basis. PPL employs 12,444 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]