NYSE:PPLPPL Stock Price, Forecast & News

PPL's stock was trading at $29.25 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PPL stock has decreased by 2.8% and is now trading at $28.43.
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16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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PPL is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 3rd 2020.
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PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August, 10th. The utilities provider reported $0.55 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.55. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.74 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.89 billion. PPL had a net margin of 23.68% and a return on equity of 14.46%. PPL's quarterly revenue was down 3.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.58 EPS.
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PPL announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 13th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, June 10th will be given a dividend of $0.415 per share on Wednesday, July 1st. This represents a $1.66 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, June 9th.
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PPL updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Monday, August, 10th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.40-2.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.42.

16 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for PPL's stock. Their forecasts range from $26.50 to $54.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's stock price to reach $35.77 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 25.8% from the stock's current price.
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Headlines about PPL stock have trended extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a daily sentiment score of -4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.
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PPL saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 10,670,000 shares, an increase of 32.2% from the April 30th total of 8,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 6,890,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days.
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Some companies that are related to PPL include NextEra Energy (NEE), Duke Energy (DUK), Southern (SO), American Electric Power (AEP), Xcel Energy (XEL), Exelon (EXC), Eversource Energy (ES), Entergy (ETR), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE) and Portland General Electric (POR).
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PPL trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PPL."

PPL's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.58%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.70%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.44%), Swiss National Bank (0.43%), Prudential PLC (0.42%) and First Trust Advisors LP (0.39%). Company insiders that own PPL stock include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson, Philip Swift, Vincent Sorgi and William H Spence.
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PPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Strs Ohio, Raymond James & Associates, First Trust Advisors LP, SG Americas Securities LLC, Reilly Financial Advisors LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., WINTON GROUP Ltd, and Victory Capital Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Vincent Sorgi, and William H Spence.
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PPL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Prudential Financial Inc., Assetmark Inc., Prudential PLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Mondrian Investment Partners LTD, Macquarie Group Ltd., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Ensign Peak Advisors Inc.
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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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of PPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.43.

PPL has a market capitalization of $21.86 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.

The official website for PPL is 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]