NYSE:PPL - PPL Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

PPL announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 22nd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 10th will be given a dividend of $0.4125 per share on Thursday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.65 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.58%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 9th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 5th. The utilities provider reported $0.61 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.62 by $0.01. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.93 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.04 billion. PPL had a net margin of 23.17% and a return on equity of 14.73%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 3.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.59 EPS. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 13th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

13 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for PPL's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $59.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's share price to reach $39.55 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 3 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 negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a daily sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for PPL.

Some companies that are related to PPL include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PPL investors own include AT&T (T), Conatus Pharmaceuticals (CNAT), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Pfizer (PFE), General Electric (GE), AbbVie (ABBV) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

PPL's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.09%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.06%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.05%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.05%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.04%) and BLB&B Advisors LLC (0.02%). Company insiders that own PPL stock include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson, Philip Swift, 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Artemis Investment Management LLP, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Deane Retirement Strategies Inc., BLB&B Advisors LLC and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson, Philip Swift, Vincent Sorgi and William H Spence. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Corbenic Partners LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, Mainstay Capital Management LLC ADV, Alpine Global Management LLC, AE Wealth Management LLC, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp and Reilly Financial Advisors 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.03.

PPL has a market capitalization of $26.05 billion and generates $7.79 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.83 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.40 on an earnings per share basis. PPL employs 12,444 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About PPL.

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]