NYSE:PPL - PPL Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

PPL declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 16th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 8th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, July 2nd. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.85%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) posted its earnings results on Thursday, May, 3rd. The utilities provider reported $0.74 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.66 by $0.08. The utilities provider earned $2.13 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.09 billion. PPL had a return on equity of 15.24% and a net margin of 15.44%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 9.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.62 earnings per share. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August, 7th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.20-2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.31.

11 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for PPL's shares. Their forecasts range from $29.00 to $48.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's stock price to reach $35.7222 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings 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, 3 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

PPL saw a increase in short interest during the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 55,984,871 shares, an increase of 4.3% from the June 15th total of 53,699,948 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 7,366,822 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.6 days. Currently, 7.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View PPL's Current Options Chain.

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News headlines about PPL stock have trended somewhat positive on Friday, according to Accern. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. PPL earned a media sentiment score of 0.09 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the utilities provider an impact score of 46.07 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.

PPL's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of Montreal Can (0.36%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.14%), Foundry Partners LLC (0.07%), Denali Advisors LLC (0.07%), Berkshire Asset Management LLC PA (0.06%) and Howard Capital Management Inc. (0.05%). 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 Hexavest Inc., Hartford Investment Management Co., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Atria Investments LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Exane Derivatives, Mutual of Omaha Bank Wealth Management and Mycio Wealth Partners LLC. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Joseph P Bergstein, Jr, 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 Foundry Partners LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Howard Capital Management Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Denali Advisors LLC, Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan and Berkshire Asset Management LLC PA. 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 $28.04.

PPL has a market capitalization of $19.57 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.

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]