On Friday, PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) was -1.34% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $32.87. A 52-week range for PPL has been $23.99 – $33.38.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Utilities sector saw sales topped by 3.55%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 7.01%. With a float of $735.64 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $737.13 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 6629 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 38.75%, operating margin of 21.64%, and the pretax margin is 12.63%.
PPL Corp (PPL) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward PPL Corp stocks. The insider ownership of PPL Corp is 0.29%, while institutional ownership is 77.57%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 29 ’24, was worth 151,781. In this transaction SVP-Finance and Treasurer of this company sold 4,782 shares at a rate of $31.74, taking the stock ownership to the 11,209 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 29 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 4,782 for $31.74, making the entire transaction worth $151,781.
PPL Corp (PPL) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.01% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.82% during the next five years compared to -17.22% drop over the previous five years of trading.
PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what PPL Corp (PPL) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.91. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.90.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.14, a number that is poised to hit 0.43 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.83 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of PPL Corp (PPL)
The latest stats from [PPL Corp, PPL] show that its last 5-days average volume of 2.91 million was inferior to 4.81 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 65.92%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.47.
During the past 100 days, PPL Corp’s (PPL) raw stochastic average was set at 84.47%, which indicates a significant increase from 57.46% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.45% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 13.84% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $32.24, while its 200-day Moving Average is $28.86. Now, the first resistance to watch is $32.95. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $33.46. The third major resistance level sits at $33.73. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $32.17, it is likely to go to the next support level at $31.90. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $31.39.
PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) Key Stats
There are 737,741K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 23.93 billion. As of now, sales total 8,312 M while income totals 740,000 K. Its latest quarter income was 1,881 M while its last quarter net income were 190,000 K.
