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, November 16th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 10th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Wednesday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.59 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.03. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.87 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.98 billion. PPL had a return on equity of 15.23% and a net margin of 19.17%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.56 earnings per share. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, November, 9th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.30 to $2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.36.

10 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for PPL's stock. Their forecasts range from $28.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate PPL's stock price to reach $34.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.7% 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, 5 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

Press coverage about PPL stock has trended extremely positive on Sunday, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news 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 4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

PPL saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 46,984,860 shares, an increase of 11.1% from the December 14th total of 42,283,366 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,248,272 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.7 days. Currently, 6.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. View PPL's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to PPL include NextEra Energy (NEE), 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), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), Avangrid (AGR) and SSE PLC/S (SSEZY).

PPL's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.15%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Gradient Investments LLC (0.04%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Centre Asset Management LLC (0.03%) and BLB&B Advisors LLC (0.03%). 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 Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Gradient Investments LLC, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Centre Asset Management LLC, BLB&B Advisors LLC, Pennsylvania Trust Co and Oakbrook Investments LLC. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson, 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 Weather Gauge Advisory LLC, Personal Capital Advisors Corp, DNB Asset Management AS, Town & Country Bank & Trust CO dba First Bankers Trust CO, CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp, First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., Landsberg Bennett & Dubbaneh LLC and Virtu Financial 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.07.

PPL has a market capitalization of $21.66 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]