PPL Corp (PPL) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $31.59, with 4.17 million shares of worth about $131.88 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 12.62% during that period and on December 18, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -2.08%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 737.78M shares, out of which, 737.36M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -3.48% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -7.09%. Year-to-date (YTD), PPL shares are showing a performance of 16.57% which increased to 17.79% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $25.35 but also hit the highest price of $35.15 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for PPL Corp shares is 4.71 million. The stock is currently trading -6.08% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -4.43% for SMA50 and it goes to 4.72% higher than SMA200.
PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) currently have 737.78M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 78.23% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $23.31B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.84. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 28.41, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.11 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.11 and has Quick Ratio of 1.07 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.17. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PPL, volatility over the week remained 1.61% while standing at 1.55% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.75% while it is estimated to increase by 6.83% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 6.91% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -17.22% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BMO Capital Markets on December 11, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $36 to it. Coverage by JP Morgan stated PPL Corp (PPL) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on October 25, 2024, suggesting a price target of $37 for the stock. On September 20, 2024, Jefferies Initiated their recommendations, while on March 08, 2024, Argus Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $30. Stock get a Neutral rating from UBS on October 04, 2023.
