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 Tuesday, February 18th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.415 per share on Wednesday, April 1st. This represents a $1.66 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.64%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 9th. This is a boost from PPL's previous quarterly dividend of $0.41. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) announced its earnings results on Friday, February, 14th. The utilities provider reported $0.57 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.04. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.95 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.08 billion. PPL had a return on equity of 14.73% and a net margin of 22.47%. The firm's revenue was up .8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.52 earnings per share. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 14th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.40-2.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.53.

15 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for PPL's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $59.00. On average, they expect PPL's stock price to reach $39.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 11 hold ratings, 3 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

Headlines about PPL stock have trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing 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 closest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a coverage optimism score of -4.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for PPL.

Some companies that are related to PPL include NextEra Energy (NEE), Duke Energy (DUK), Southern (SO), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), 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), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Intel (INTC), General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

PPL's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (5.58%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.23%), FMR LLC (3.21%), Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec (2.29%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (2.06%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.59%). 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 FMR LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, SG Americas Securities LLC, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Strs Ohio and Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Philip Swift, Vincent Sorgi and William H Spence. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Point72 Asset Management L.P., State Street Corp, Cohen & Steers Inc., Jennison Associates LLC, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale and Anchor Capital 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 $35.81.

PPL has a market capitalization of $27.49 billion and generates $7.77 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.75 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.45 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]