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, November 16th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Wednesday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.44%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) posted its earnings results on Thursday, November, 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $1.87 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.98 billion. PPL had a net margin of 19.17% and a return on equity of 15.23%. The firm's revenue was up 1.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.56 EPS. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, November, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.30 to $2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.36.

10 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for PPL's stock. Their forecasts range from $28.00 to $52.00. On average, they expect PPL's stock price to reach $34.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.4% 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, 5 hold ratings and 4 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 negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a daily sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

PPL saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 46,984,860 shares, an increase of 11.1% from the December 14th total of 42,283,366 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,248,272 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.7 days. Currently, 6.5% of the shares of the 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 (ENLAY), Southern (SO), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Eversource Energy (ES), DTE Energy (DTE), FirstEnergy (FE), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), Avangrid (AGR) and SSE PLC/S (SSEZY).

PPL's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of Montreal Can (0.36%), Strs Ohio (0.27%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.15%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Gradient Investments LLC (0.04%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%). 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 Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Bank of Montreal Can, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Gradient Investments LLC, BB&T Corp, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Centre Asset Management LLC and BLB&B Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson, 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Strs Ohio, Weather Gauge Advisory LLC, Personal Capital Advisors Corp, DNB Asset Management AS, Town & Country Bank & Trust CO dba First Bankers Trust CO, CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp and First Citizens Bank & Trust Co.. 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 $30.17.

PPL has a market capitalization of $21.73 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]