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 paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, July 2nd. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

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

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August, 2nd 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 earnings per share estimate of $2.31.

12 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for PPL's shares. Their predictions range from $28.00 to $48.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's stock price to reach $35.85 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

PPL saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 57,157,211 shares, an increase of 13.9% from the May 15th total of 50,189,351 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 7,791,316 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.3 days. Currently, 8.2% of the shares of the stock 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 Common Stock (ENLAY), Southern (SO), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Edison International (EIX), Korea Electric Power (KEP), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Avangrid (AGR) and Entergy (ETR).

Media stories about PPL stock have trended somewhat negative this week, Accern reports. Accern scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. PPL earned a coverage optimism score of -0.04 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the utilities provider an impact score of 48.87 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

PPL's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.72%), Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec (2.12%), Federated Investors Inc. PA (2.08%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.63%), Northern Trust Corp (1.10%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.07%). 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 Epoch Investment Partners Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Royal Bank of Canada, Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd., Highbridge Capital Management LLC, American Century Companies Inc. and California Public Employees Retirement System. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Kempen Capital Management N.V. and Alps Advisors Inc.. 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 $28.26.

PPL has a market capitalization of $19.46 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]