PPL - PPL Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" PPL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PPL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for PPL's shares. Their PPL share price forecasts range from $28.00 to $34.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $30.78 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.6% from the stock's current price.
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PPL's stock was trading at $30.06 at the beginning of the year. Since then, PPL shares have increased by 0.8% and is now trading at $30.29.
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PPL saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 11,280,000 shares, an increase of 30.4% from the June 30th total of 8,650,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 5,630,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.0 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 3rd 2022.
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PPL Co. (NYSE:PPL) released its earnings results on Thursday, November, 4th. The utilities provider reported $0.36 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.38 by $0.02. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.51 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.59 billion. PPL had a net margin of 11.32% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.90%. The business's revenue was up 8.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.58 earnings per share.
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PPL announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, June 10th. Investors of record on Tuesday, June 21st will be given a dividend of $0.225 per share on Friday, July 1st. This represents a $0.90 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.97%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 17th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20.
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PPL (NYSE:PPL) pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.06%. The dividend payout ratio is 91.84%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, PPL will have a dividend payout ratio of 56.60% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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PPL issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 10th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.40-$1.55 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $1.42. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (2.33%), Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp (1.27%), Northern Trust Corp (0.97%), Franklin Resources Inc. (0.86%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.47%) and Swiss National Bank (0.43%). Insiders that own company stock include David J Bonenberger, Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Stephanie R Raymond, Vincent Sorgi and William H Spence.
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Shares of PPL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of PPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.29.

PPL (NYSE:PPL) has a market capitalization of $22.30 billion and generates $5.78 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $-1,480,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.98 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 5,607 workers across the globe.

PPL was founded in 1920.

PPL's mailing address is TWO N NINTH ST, ALLENTOWN PA, 18101. The official website for the company is www.pplweb.com. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (610) 774-5151, via email at invrel@pplweb.com, or via fax at 610-774-5106.