PPL Corp hikes dividend by 12.5%

Utility company PPL Corporation (PPL) on June 10, 2022 announced a 12.5% dividend increase to $0.225 per share quarterly. This increased dividend will be paid to shareholders on July 1, 2022 to shareholders of record on June 21, 2022. The new annual dividend rate of $0.90 for PPL per share yields 3.2% at a stock price of $28.33.

In the previous quarter PPL cut its quarterly dividend by 51.8 percent to 20 cents per share. The utility holding company last raised its quarterly dividend by 0.6 percent to $0.415 per share in 2020, at the time marking 19 consecutive years of increases.

PPL Corporation is utility holding company.  PPL Electric was founded in 1920 as Pennsylvania Power & Light Company. PPL, through its regulated utility subsidiaries, delivers electricity to customers in the U.K., Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Virginia; delivers natural gas to customers in Kentucky; and generates electricity from power plants in Kentucky. PPL Corporation, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was incorporated in 1994 and has paid a dividend in every quarter since 1946.