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, August 24th. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 10th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, October 1st. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.15%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.56 by $0.03. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.87 billion for 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 business's quarterly revenue was up 1.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $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 updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, November, 9th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.30 to $2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.36.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for PPL's shares. Their predictions range from $30.00 to $48.00. On average, they expect PPL's share price to reach $34.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

11 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 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

News coverage about PPL stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. 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 news sentiment score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

PPL saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 46,865,262 shares, an increase of 3.6% from the October 15th total of 48,606,069 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 5,178,348 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 9.1 days. Currently, 6.7% of the shares of the company 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), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Entergy (ETR), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY) and Avangrid (AGR).

PPL's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.16%), FMR LLC (6.77%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.40%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.23%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (0.71%) and Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC (0.61%). 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 Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC, Reaves W H & Co. Inc., BlackRock Inc., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and American Century Companies Inc.. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Victor A Staffieri and Vincent Sorgi. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Janus Henderson Group PLC, FMR LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd., Affinity Investment Advisors LLC, Personal Capital Advisors Corp and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. 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 $31.87.

PPL has a market capitalization of $22.82 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]