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. Investors of record on Friday, March 8th will be given 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 5.36%. The ex-dividend date 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) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 14th. The utilities provider reported $0.52 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.49 by $0.03. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.94 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.88 billion. PPL had a net margin of 23.47% and a return on equity of 14.91%. The company's quarterly revenue was up .7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm 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 will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 8883468683.

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 1-year price objectives for PPL's stock. Their forecasts 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 11.6% 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, 7 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

News headlines about PPL stock have trended positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a media sentiment score of 2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

PPL saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 29th, there was short interest totalling 37,375,196 shares, a drop of 13.7% from the March 15th total of 43,307,879 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,111,237 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 9.1 days. Approximately 5.2% of the shares of the company are sold short. View PPL's Current Options Chain.

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PPL's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Strs Ohio (0.21%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.14%), Foundry Partners LLC (0.09%), Berkshire Asset Management LLC PA (0.09%), Chartwell Investment Partners LLC (0.07%) and Denali Advisors LLC (0.06%). 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 Strs Ohio, Gradient Investments LLC, Town & Country Bank & Trust CO dba First Bankers Trust CO, DNB Asset Management AS, Pennsylvania Trust Co, Denali Advisors LLC, Pensionfund DSM Netherlands and Pensionfund Sabic. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV, Pacer Advisors Inc., Sciencast Management LP, Shorepoint Capital Partners LLC, Virtu Financial LLC, Tandem Investment Advisors Inc., Berkshire Asset Management LLC PA and Bank of Edwardsville. 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 $30.8033.

PPL has a market capitalization of $22.21 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]