Last month’s performance of 6.54% for PPL Corp (PPL) is certainly impressive

PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) kicked off on Monday, up 0.46% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $34.72. Over the past 52 weeks, PPL has traded in a range of $25.87-$35.15.

Annual sales at Utilities sector company grew by 3.95% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 7.78%. With a float of $737.32 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $738.03 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 6653 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 39.34%, operating margin of 20.86%, and the pretax margin is 13.19%.

PPL Corp (PPL) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Utilities – Regulated Electric Industry. The insider ownership of PPL Corp is 0.13%, while institutional ownership is 79.14%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 18 ’25, was worth 153,149. In this transaction SVP & COO-Utilities of PPL Sub of this company sold 4,523 shares at a rate of $33.86, taking the stock ownership to the 45,414 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 18 ’25, when Company’s SVP-Finance and Treasurer sold 2,248 for $33.86, making the entire transaction worth $76,117. This insider now owns 11,259 shares in total.

PPL Corp (PPL) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.39 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.78% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.62% during the next five years compared to -12.75% drop over the previous five years of trading.

PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at PPL Corp’s (PPL) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.71. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.04.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.20, a number that is poised to hit 0.52 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.96 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of PPL Corp (PPL)

PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) saw its 5-day average volume 4.93 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 4.61 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 74.05%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.64.

During the past 100 days, PPL Corp’s (PPL) raw stochastic average was set at 93.13%, which indicates a significant increase from 85.00% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.22% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 17.82% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $33.03, while its 200-day Moving Average is $31.46. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $35.18 in the near term. At $35.49, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $35.82. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $34.54, it is likely to go to the next support level at $34.21. The third support level lies at $33.90 if the price breaches the second support level.

PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 25.75 billion has total of 738,294K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 8,462 M in contrast with the sum of 888,000 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 2,211 M and last quarter income was 177,000 K.