PPL Corporation (PPL) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of PPL Corporation (PPL): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About PPL Corporation
PPL Corporation provides electricity and natural gas to approximately 3.6 million customers in the United States. It operates in three segments: Kentucky Regulated, Pennsylvania Regulated, and Rhode Island Regulated. The company engages in the transmission and distribution of electricity in eastern and central Pennsylvania; generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity in Kentucky, Virginia, and Rhode Island; distribution and sale of natural gas in Kentucky and Rhode Island; sale of wholesale electricity in Kentucky; and generation of electricity from power plants in Kentucky. It generates electricity from coal, gas, hydro, and solar sources. The company was formerly known as PP&L Resources, Inc. and changed its name to PPL Corporation in 2000. PPL Corporation was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Sector: Utilities · Industry: Utilities - Regulated Electric · United States · 6,546 employees · pplweb.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, PPL Corporation (PPL) had a market capitalization of $26.42B, a trailing P/E of 20.8 (forward 16.6), a dividend yield of 3.25% and a beta of 0.58; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $33.17 – $40.11 (-1.5% over the year).
- Market cap
- $26.42B
- Enterprise value
- $46.47B
- Trailing P/E
- 20.8
- Forward P/E
- 16.6
- PEG ratio
- 1.29
- Price / book
- 1.76
- EPS (trailing)
- $1.69
- EPS (forward)
- $2.12
- Dividend yield
- 3.25%
- Payout ratio
- 66.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-09-10
- 52-week range
- $33.17 – $40.11
- 52-week change
- -1.5%
- Beta
- 0.58
- Average volume
- 8.8M
- Shares outstanding
- 752.5M
- Short % of float
- 5.58%
- Profit margin
- 13.5%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-10
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-10 scan of the US universe, PPL Corporation (PPL) last closed at $34.55 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 43 (neutral territory), price -1.3% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -1.3%, MACD histogram 0.03.
Sentiment inputs: 100% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 100% bullish; analyst consensus score 75/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 21 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
RapidTradeView has recorded no Congress or insider filing for PPL in the last 90 days. Coverage of House, Senate and SEC Form 4 filings began in July 2026, and insider sells are tracked for universe tickers only, so this is our record, not a guarantee that nothing was filed. Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
PPL has been a daily pick 1 time. Most recent: 2026-09-10, rank #2, still grading. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls PPL Corporation (PPL) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell PPL.
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