In recent trading session, PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) saw 0.7 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.66. Company’s recent per share price level of $33.98 trading at $0.46 or 1.37% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $25.12B. That most recent trading price of PPL’s stock is at a discount of -8.0% from its 52-week high price of $36.70 and is indicating a premium of 19.84% from its 52-week low price of $27.24. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 5.23 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 5.79 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For PPL Corp (PPL), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.94. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 8 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.38 in the current quarter.
PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 1.37%, in the last five days PPL remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 05/09/25 when the stock touched $33.98 price level, adding 4.92% to its value on the day. PPL Corp’s shares saw a change of 4.68% in year-to-date performance and have moved -4.60% in past 5-day. PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) showed a performance of -3.93% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 23.22 million shares which calculate 3.53 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 32 to the stock, which implies a fall of -6.19% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 28.5 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 39. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 16.13% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 16.13% for stock’s current value.
PPL Corp (PPL) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 4.07% from the last financial year’s standing.
2 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 1.99B for the same. And 2 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 2.15B in the next quarter. Company posted 1.88B and 2.07B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -12.75% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 7.60% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 7.44%.
PPL Dividends
PPL Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 3.08%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.05 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 4.45%.
PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.11% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 82.05 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 82.14%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 82.05% institutions for PPL Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at PPL for having 93.25 million shares of worth $2.58 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 12.6395 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 58.69 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.9557 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.62 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 22.04 shares of worth $751.71 million or 2.98% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 19.97 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $681.05 million in the company or a holder of 2.70% of company’s stock.
