PPL Corp (PPL): Not A Time To Panic Nor Freeze

PPL Corp (PPL) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $35.28, with 3.98 million shares of worth about $140.57 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 9.98% during that period and on April 16, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.25%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 739.05M shares, out of which, 738.05M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 3.28% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.32%. Year-to-date (YTD), PPL shares are showing a performance of 8.69% which increased to 33.48% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $25.93 but also hit the highest price of $36.64 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for PPL Corp shares is 5.31 million. The stock is currently trading 0.92% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 1.73% for SMA50 and it goes to 8.23% higher than SMA200.

PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) currently have 739.05M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 79.05% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $26.07B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.72. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 29.45, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.20 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.96 and has Quick Ratio of 0.71 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.19. 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 2.26% while standing at 2.43% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.50% while it is estimated to increase by 7.64% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 7.43% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -12.75% 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.

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