NYSE:PPL - PPL Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

PPL announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 8th will be given a dividend of $0.4125 per share on Monday, April 1st. This represents a $1.65 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 7th. This is an increase from PPL's previous quarterly dividend of $0.41. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 14th. The utilities provider reported $0.52 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $1.94 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.88 billion. PPL had a return on equity of 15.23% and a net margin of 19.17%. The business's quarterly revenue was up .7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.55 earnings per share. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL issued an update on its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 14th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.50-2.80 for the period. PPL also updated its FY19 guidance to $2.30-2.50 EPS.

10 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for PPL's shares. Their forecasts range from $28.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's share price to reach $34.3750 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

Media stories about PPL stock have trended negative on Sunday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a daily sentiment score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

PPL saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 42,703,513 shares, a decrease of 9.1% from the January 15th total of 46,971,876 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,520,732 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 9.4 days. Approximately 5.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View PPL's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to PPL include Enel S.p.A. ADS (ENLAY), Southern (SO), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Eversource Energy (ES), DTE Energy (DTE), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Entergy (ETR), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), Avangrid (AGR) and CenterPoint Energy (CNP).

PPL's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.64%), Zimmer Partners LP (2.88%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.80%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.44%), Northern Trust Corp (1.14%) and Legal & General Group Plc (1.04%). 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 Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Zimmer Partners LP, Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, Epoch Investment Partners Inc., Alps Advisors Inc., Raymond James & Associates and Brookstone Capital Management. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson and Victor A Staffieri. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, California Public Employees Retirement System, Geode Capital Management LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Reaves W H & Co. Inc. and Legal & General Group Plc. 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 $30.46.

PPL has a market capitalization of $21.94 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.

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]