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, February 15th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.4125 per share on Monday, April 1st. This represents a $1.65 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.25%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 7th. This is a boost from PPL's previous quarterly dividend of $0.41. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 14th. The utilities provider reported $0.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.03. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.94 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.88 billion. PPL had a net margin of 23.47% and a return on equity of 14.91%. The business's revenue was up .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.55 earnings per share. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL updated its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 14th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.50-2.80 for the period. PPL also updated its FY19 guidance to $2.30-2.50 EPS.

10 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for PPL's shares. Their predictions range from $28.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's stock price to reach $34.3750 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.4% 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, 6 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

News headlines about PPL stock have been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a media sentiment score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is very likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

PPL saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 42,703,513 shares, a decrease of 9.1% from the January 15th total of 46,971,876 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,520,732 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 9.4 days. Currently, 5.9% of the shares of the 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), Southern (SO), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Eversource Energy (ES), DTE Energy (DTE), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Entergy (ETR), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY) and CenterPoint Energy (CNP).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PPL investors own include AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), General Electric (GE), Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Ford Motor (F), Pfizer (PFE), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET) and Enterprise Products Partners (EPD).

PPL's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.64%), Zimmer Partners LP (2.88%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.80%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.44%), Northern Trust Corp (1.14%) and Legal & General Group Plc (1.04%). 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 Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Zimmer Partners LP, Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, Epoch Investment Partners Inc., Alps Advisors Inc., Raymond James & Associates and Brookstone Capital Management. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson and Victor A Staffieri. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, California Public Employees Retirement System, Geode Capital Management LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Reaves W H & Co. Inc. and B.S. Pension Fund Trustee Ltd acting for the British Steel Pension Fund. 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 $31.42.

PPL has a market capitalization of $22.65 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 12,512 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]