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We have scored 33 news catalysts on PPL Corporation (PPL) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came Apr 30, 2026, when PPL closed −3.2%: “LG&E and KU collaborate with X-energy to explore nuclear energy”. Coverage across the window leans positive (average ticker sentiment +0.28). Most of the impact sits in sector utilities and capex intensity.
Dots are scored news catalysts — size = impact, color = sentiment. Tap one to read it.
Market cap
24.1B
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
0.58
52W range
31.915-40.11
Day range
31.91–32.39
Open
32.32
Prev close
32.25
Volume
2.8M
Avg volume
8.5M
Dividend
1.13
IPO
1980-03-17
Analysts publish price targets on PPL, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
9 analyst price targets from $37 to $44
as of 2026-09-02
The market is 12% below the median target — more cautious than the analysts.
The reconstruction
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors, derived from what the news actually says about PPL Corporation — not a sector bucket. Click an edge to see the articles that established the link.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors of PPL Corporation, taken from what the news actually said about them rather than from a sector bucket. The count is how many articles established each link.
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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.
The price sits at the very bottom of the published model range, 12% below the median target and fully rejecting the four highest bull cases, meaning the market is only paying for the base utility business and assigns no value to the upside from data centers or capacity prices.
What the disagreement turns on
Whether data-center demand and capacity prices will actually translate into higher regulated earnings and capital deployment, and the available unit_volumes data can measure the revenue growth but cannot measure the regulatory pricing outcomes that determine profitability.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
Claim by claim
Computed at $34.47 on 2026-09-02 — the quote has since moved -7%, so read this as a record of what was priced in then, not now.
