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 Friday, November 22nd. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 10th will be given a dividend of $0.4125 per share on Thursday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.65 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 9th. View PPL's Dividend History.

PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February, 14th. The utilities provider reported $0.57 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.04. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.95 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.08 billion. PPL's revenue was up .8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $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 issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 14th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.40-2.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.53.

15 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for PPL's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $59.00. On average, they expect PPL's share price to reach $39.29 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.1% 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.

News headlines about PPL stock have trended neutral on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPL earned a news impact score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for PPL.

Some companies that are related to PPL include Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), ALLETE (ALE), American Electric Power (AEP), Duke Energy (DUK), Edison International (EIX), El Paso Electric (EE), Entergy (ETR), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), IDACORP (IDA), MGE Energy (MGEE), NextEra Energy (NEE) and OGE Energy (OGE).

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PPL's stock is owned by a number of 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 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.04%). 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 Joanne H Raphael, Philip Swift, Vincent Sorgi and William H Spence. View Insider Buying and Selling for PPL.

PPL stock was bought 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 $35.37.