NYSE:PPL - PPL Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

PPL declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 16th. Investors of record on Monday, December 10th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Wednesday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $1.87 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.98 billion. PPL had a net margin of 19.17% and a return on equity of 15.23%. The company's revenue was up 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.56 earnings per share. 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 (EPS) guidance of $2.30 to $2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.36.

10 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets 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 14.7% 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.

Media coverage about PPL stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate 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 short-interest ratio is currently 5.7 days. Approximately 6.5% of the shares of the company 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), 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 a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.15%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Gradient Investments LLC (0.04%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Centre Asset Management LLC (0.03%) and BLB&B Advisors LLC (0.03%). 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, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Gradient Investments LLC, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Centre Asset Management LLC, BLB&B Advisors LLC, Pennsylvania Trust Co and Oakbrook Investments 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 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, First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., Landsberg Bennett & Dubbaneh LLC and Virtu Financial LLC. 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 $30.07.

PPL has a market capitalization of $21.66 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]