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 Tuesday, May 14th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.4125 per share on Monday, July 1st. This represents a $1.65 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.36%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 7th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) issued its earnings results on Thursday, May, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $0.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $2.08 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.19 billion. PPL had a net margin of 23.79% and a return on equity of 14.52%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 2.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.74 earnings per share. View PPL's Earnings History.

PPL is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 6th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPL.

PPL issued an update on its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 2nd. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.50-2.80 for the period. PPL also updated its FY19 guidance to $2.30-2.50 EPS.

11 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for PPL's shares. Their predictions range from $28.00 to $52.00. On average, they expect PPL's stock price to reach $34.6250 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPL.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PPL in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PPL.

News headlines about PPL stock have trended positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a news sentiment score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

PPL saw a decrease in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 34,188,251 shares, a decrease of 6.8% from the April 15th total of 36,699,482 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,614,098 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.4 days. Currently, 4.7% of the shares of the company are short sold. View PPL's Current Options Chain.

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

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), Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Duke Energy (DUK), Ford Motor (F) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

PPL's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.19%), FMR LLC (5.74%), Zimmer Partners LP (2.93%), Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec (2.71%), Federated Investors Inc. PA (1.78%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.51%). Company insiders that own PPL stock include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Joseph P Bergstein, Jr, Paul W Thompson, 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, BlackRock Inc., Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, FIL Ltd, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Morgan Stanley, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and Reaves W H & Co. Inc.. Company insiders that have sold PPL company stock in the last year include Gregory N Dudkin, Joanne H Raphael, Paul W Thompson and William H Spence. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Federated Investors Inc. PA, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Geode Capital Management LLC and State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D. 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 $30.80.

PPL has a market capitalization of $22.23 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.

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]