BlackRock Fund Advisors recently announced the acquisition of new stake in PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Utilities company by 0.90% to 50.12 million shares with purchase of 0.45 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 6.80% valued currently at $1.36 billion. In addition, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Manageme raised its holdings by 0.73 million to 15.89 million shares. And Geode Capital Management LLC has lifted its position by 1.95% or 0.3 million shares – to 15.82 million shares.
Currently, there are 736.49M common shares owned by the public and among those 735.23M shares have been available to trade.
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Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 28 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 12 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 151,988 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 16 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 76,462 shares.
The top 3 mutual fund holders in PPL Corp are Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, Vanguard 500 Index Fund, and Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF owns 23.11 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $626.35 million. The company bought an additional 70869.0 shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 3.14% of the shares outstanding. Vanguard 500 Index Fund bought 26520.0 shares to see its total holdings expand to 18.0 million shares valued at over $487.75 million and representing 2.44% of the shares outstanding. Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund sold -0.24 million shares to bring its total holdings to over 16.52 million shares at a value of $447.61 million. Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund now owns shares totaling to 2.24% of the shares outstanding.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -4.07% and 8.25% over the past three months. PPL shares are trading -5.09% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -12.28% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $22.20 and touched a high of $30.03 over the same period. PPL has an average intraday trading volume of 6.52 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -4.82%, -3.03%, and -2.21% respectively.
Institutional ownership of PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) shares accounts for 74.80% of the company’s 736.49M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 30.51%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 44.50% and 0.29% respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $18.96B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.83. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 24.52, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.05. The company has a PEG of 1.42 and a Quick Ratio of 0.79 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.06. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.88% over the week and 1.47% over the month.
Analysts forecast that PPL Corp (PPL) will achieve an EPS of $0.38 for the current quarter, $0.51 for the next quarter and $1.71 for 2024. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.35 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.4. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.28 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 12.40%, and 7.87% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 17.21% over the next five years, compared to -10.00% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the PPL, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. UBS stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on October 04, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $29-$25.
