Yahoo · Aug 28, 2026
PPL Stock Underperforms Industry in Six Months: How to Play?
PPL's $23 billion grid plan and data center-driven demand support growth, but premium valuation, higher debt and weaker margins cloud the entry point.
PP
AMEX · PPLC
PortfolioPlus S&P 500 ETF
Financial Services · Asset Management - Leveraged
$45.49
Up+$0.15 (+0.33%)
Updated Sep 18, 2026, 2:48 AM
SID Score
—
Composite research score
Smart Money
—
Institutional and insider signal
- Market cap
- 22.64M
- P/E ratio
- —
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- 52-week range
- — – —
- Volume
- 7.1K
- Avg. volume
- 0
Price performance
PPLC price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
PPLC closed at $45.49 after 20 trading sessions, down 2.67% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $45.49
- Period change
- -2.67%
- Period low
- $45.34
- Period high
- $47.14
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | $45.59 | $45.69 | $45.39 | $45.49 | 7.1K |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $45.48 | $45.59 | $45.30 | $45.34 | 58.7K |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $45.66 | $45.66 | $45.29 | $45.36 | 163.21K |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $46.285 | $46.285 | $45.65 | $45.88 | 10.52K |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $46.04 | $46.33 | $46.00 | $46.00 | 7.45K |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $46.44 | $46.44 | $46.09 | $46.09 | 35.68K |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $46.62 | $46.72 | $46.19 | $46.23 | 7.45K |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $46.62 | $47.26 | $46.62 | $46.80 | 6.2K |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $46.73 | $46.81 | $46.29 | $46.29 | 87.33K |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $46.335 | $47.14 | $46.335 | $47.14 | 21.37K |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $45.94 | $46.43 | $45.81 | $46.24 | 111.62K |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $45.97 | $46.20 | $45.91 | $45.93 | 27.57K |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $45.81 | $46.18 | $45.70 | $46.16 | 30.53K |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $46.72 | $46.72 | $45.90 | $46.08 | 756.3K |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $46.43 | $46.43 | $46.2403 | $46.32 | 567.45K |
| Aug 26, 2026 | $47.15 | $47.15 | $46.69 | $46.69 | 5.41K |
| Aug 25, 2026 | $45.96 | $46.95 | $45.96 | $46.95 | 130.11K |
| Aug 24, 2026 | $46.40 | $46.69 | $46.04 | $46.34 | 25.38K |
| Aug 21, 2026 | $46.52 | $46.56 | $46.03 | $46.13 | 8.47K |
| Aug 20, 2026 | $47.00 | $47.0799 | $46.70 | $46.74 | 5.07K |
Latest PPLC news
The latest Smart Investors Daily articles mentioning PPLC.
Stock researchCompany · Overview
PPLC research
Overview
Company profile and research snapshot.
Company profile
The investment seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 135% of the daily performance of the S&P 500® Index. The fund, under normal circumstances, invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowing for investment purposes) in securities of the index, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the index and other financial instruments that provide daily leveraged exposure to the index or ETFs that track the index. The index is a float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index. The fund is non-diversified.
Analyst outlook
Consensus and target data currently published for this company.
- Consensus
- —
- Average target
- —
- Implied upside
- —
- Analysts
- —
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | — |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Jefferies | Buy | — |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Morgan Stanley | Overweight | — |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Evercore ISI Group | Outperform | — |
| Aug 10, 2026 | BMO Capital | Outperform | — |
News briefing
No generated briefing is available yet.
Yahoo · Aug 8, 2026
PPL’s Earnings Miss and Reaffirmed 2026 Guidance Might Change The Case For Investing In PPL (PPL)
PPL Corporation’s second-quarter 2026 results, released on August 7, showed sales rising to US$2,111 million and net income to US$230 million, but both revenue and earnings per share came in below Wall Street estimates. Despite the quarterly miss, PPL reaffirmed its 2026 ongoing earnings guidance of US$1.90 to US$1.98 per share and pointed to expanding data center-related demand and its Invitium Energy joint venture with Blackstone as key long-term earnings drivers. We’ll now examine how...
Yahoo · Aug 8, 2026
PPL (PPL) Could Be 14% Undervalued Following Reaffirmed 2026 Guidance
Earnings snapshot and why PPL stock is in focus PPL (PPL) is back on investors’ radar after its second quarter 2026 earnings release and reaffirmed full year guidance, putting fresh financial detail around the utility’s recent share price performance. The company reported Q2 2026 sales of US$2.11b and net income of US$230m, with basic earnings per share from continuing operations of US$0.31. Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations were US$0.30. For the first half of 2026, PPL...
Yahoo · Aug 7, 2026
PPL Corp (PPL) (Q2 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: Reaffirms Guidance, Advances Data Center ...
PPL Corp (PPL) posts modest EPS growth and reaffirms 2026 forecast while expanding its data center pipeline to 32 gigawatts and progressing the Invitium Energy joint venture.
AI research layers
Interpretive context generated from the platform’s current data sources.
No results
AI research layers have not been published yet.
