NYSE:PPLPPL Stock Price, Forecast & News

PPL's stock was trading at $29.25 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (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) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August, 10th. The utilities provider reported $0.55 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.55. The utilities provider earned $1.74 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.89 billion. PPL had a return on equity of 14.46% and a net margin of 23.68%. The company's revenue was down 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last 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 paid a dividend of $0.415 per share on Wednesday, July 1st. This represents a $1.66 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend 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 earnings per share (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 1 year price targets 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 year. This suggests a possible upside of 25.8% from the stock's current price.
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News stories about PPL stock have been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of 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 -3.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near 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 trading 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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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PPL investors own include AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Pfizer (PFE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AbbVie (ABBV), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Conatus Pharmaceuticals (CNAT) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

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

PPL's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 purchased 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]