PPL Stock Soars on Data-Center Boom and Gas-Plant Plans
Stock Performance (Oct 2025) By late October 2025, PPL was trading around $36.50 marketbeat.com. It dipped slightly into late Oct: on Oct. 29 it fell 1.16% to $36.48 nasdaq.com. Over the past 12 months the stock is up about 14% ts2.tech barchart.com, roughly double the return of the utilities ETF (XLU) and comparable to peers’ gains. In the last month alone PPL has underperformed the S&P 500; for example, the S&P500 rose ~3.8% in Oct. while PPL was slightly down nasdaq.com. Overall, PPL’s trajectory has been upward: in mid-October it traded near $37.2 ts2.tech (approaching its 52-week high ~$37.8), though by
