NYSE:PPL - PPL Stock Price, Forecast & News

PPL's stock was trading at $29.25 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PPL shares have decreased by 11.7% and is now trading at $25.83. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 11 hold ratings, 4 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for PPL.

PPL is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View our earnings forecast for PPL.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) issued its earnings results on Friday, February, 14th. The utilities provider reported $0.57 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.04. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.95 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.08 billion. PPL had a return on equity of 14.73% and a net margin of 22.47%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up .8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.52 earnings per share. View PPL's earnings history.

PPL declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 18th. Investors of record on Tuesday, March 10th will be given a dividend of $0.415 per share on Wednesday, April 1st. This represents a $1.66 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.43%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 9th. This is a boost from PPL's previous quarterly dividend of $0.41. View PPL's dividend history.

PPL updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 14th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.40-2.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.53.

16 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for PPL's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $59.00. On average, they expect PPL's share price to reach $40.85 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 58.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for PPL.

Media coverage about PPL stock has been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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 media sentiment score of -3.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutPPL.

Some companies that are related to PPL include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), IDACORP (IDA) and Portland General Electric (POR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PPL investors own include AT&T (T), Conatus Pharmaceuticals (CNAT), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Exxon Mobil (XOM), AbbVie (ABBV), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), General Electric (GE) and Pfizer (PFE).

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

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One share of PPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.83.

PPL has a market capitalization of $19.83 billion and generates $7.77 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.75 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.45 on an earnings per share basis. PPL employs 12,280 workers across the globe. View additional information about PPL.

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]