PPL Corp (PPL) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $33.59, with 4.5 million shares of worth about $151.16 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 4.03% during that period and on June 18, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.42%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 739.07M shares, out of which, 738.27M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.56% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.08%. Year-to-date (YTD), PPL shares are showing a performance of 3.48% which increased to 19.62% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $27.24 but also hit the highest price of $36.70 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for PPL Corp shares is 5.56 million. The stock is currently trading -1.75% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.74% for SMA50 and it goes to -0.37% lower than SMA200.
PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) currently have 739.07M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 81.47% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $24.83B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.67. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 25.08, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.34 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.38 and has Quick Ratio of 0.68 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.21. 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 0.76% while standing at 0.88% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.59% while it is estimated to increase by 7.67% 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.
