PPL Corp
PPL Corp (PPL) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
- PPL is a mature, multi-state regulated utility: Kentucky at about 42% of the business, Pennsylvania at 34%, and Rhode Island at 24%. Its earnings are set by regulators, so the right way to read it is rate base growth and allowed returns, not market-driven sales. - The growth story is the data center wave. PPL reports an advanced-stage Pennsylvania data center pipeline of 28.3 gigawatts and a Kentucky pipeline near 13 gigawatts, underpinning a $23 billion capital plan and roughly 10.3% rate bas
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957 institutional managers reported holding PPL in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 86% of the company; the top 10 hold 48%. 102 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Franklin Resources, among others. On the short side, 39.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
PPL has cut its share count 2.3% over the past five years, spending $1.02B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 2 years straight; the current rate is $1.09 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.10B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at PPL over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
PPL's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-05 | -2.0% | -10.1% |
| 2023-11-03 | +2.8% | +9.3% |
| 2024-02-17 | +0.7% | +1.5% |
| 2024-05-02 | +1.7% | -1.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
PPL's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-30 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-04 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-18 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-05-15 (items 2.03, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-13 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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