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PPL Corporation is an utilities-regulated electric business based in the US. PPL Corporation shares (PPL) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. PPL Corporation employs 12,318 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$7.6 billion.
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52-week range | USD$15.8709 - USD$29.9034 |
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50-day moving average | USD$27.9303 |
200-day moving average | USD$28.0861 |
Wall St. target price | USD$30.5 |
PE ratio | 14.3456 |
Dividend yield | USD$1.66 (6.04%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$1.91 |
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Valuing PPL Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of PPL Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
PPL Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 14x. In other words, PPL Corporation shares trade at around 14x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
PPL Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$4.5 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a PPL Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | USD$7.6 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 40.66% |
Gross profit TTM | USD$4.4 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 4.12% |
Return on equity TTM | 11.14% |
Profit margin | 19.31% |
Book value | $17.392 |
Market capitalisation | USD$21.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 11.3 million PPL Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as PPL Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 5% down from 11.8 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting PPL Corporation shares can be evaluated.
PPL Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of PPL Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of PPL Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 4.0 million). PPL Corporation's SIR currently stands at 2.8. In other words for every 100,000 PPL Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2800 shares are currently held short.
However PPL Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of PPL Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable PPL Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case PPL Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 PPL Corporation shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0147% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable PPL Corporation shares, roughly 15 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against PPL Corporation.
Find out more about how you can short PPL Corporation stock.
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like PPL Corporation.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 31.67
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and PPL Corporation's overall score of 31.67 (as at 01/01/2019) is pretty weak – landing it in it in the 72nd percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like PPL Corporation is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 17.72/100
Social score: 6.49/100
Governance score: 1.97/100
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. PPL Corporation scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that PPL Corporation has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
PPL Corporation was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
Total ESG score | 31.67 |
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Total ESG percentile | 71.96 |
Environmental score | 17.72 |
Social score | 6.49 |
Governance score | 1.97 |
Level of controversy | 2 |
Dividend payout ratio: 52.3% of net profits
Recently PPL Corporation has paid out, on average, around 52.3% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 6.04% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), PPL Corporation shareholders could enjoy a 6.04% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In PPL Corporation's case, that would currently equate to about $1.66 per share.
PPL Corporation's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
PPL Corporation's most recent dividend payout was on 1 April 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 9 March 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
PPL Corporation's shares were split on a 10000:9314 basis on 2 June 2015. So if you had owned 9314 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 10000 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your PPL Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 6.9% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for PPL Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted PPL Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, PPL Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $15.8709 up to $29.9034. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while PPL Corporation's is 0.7908. This would suggest that PPL Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
PPL Corporation, a utility holding company, delivers electricity and natural gas in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company operates through three segments: U.K. Regulated, Kentucky Regulated, and Pennsylvania Regulated. It serves approximately 418,000 electric and 329,000 natural gas customers in Louisville and adjacent areas in Kentucky; 530,000 electric customers in central, southeastern, and western Kentucky; and 28,000 electric customers in 5 counties in southwestern Virginia. The company also provides electric delivery services to approximately 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania; operates electricity distribution networks in the United Kingdom; generates electricity from coal, gas, hydro, and solar sources in Kentucky; and sells wholesale electricity to 2 municipalities in Kentucky. PPL Corporation was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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