Preformed Line Products Company is an electrical equipment & parts business based in the US. Preformed Line Products Company shares (PLPC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $137.36 – a decrease of 1.29% over the previous week. Preformed Line Products Company employs 3,401 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $593.7 million.
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| Latest market close | $137.36 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $108.51 - $154.68 |
| 50-day moving average | $136.83 |
| 200-day moving average | $129.94 |
| Wall St. target price | N/A |
| PE ratio | 18.5533 |
| Dividend yield | $0.8 (0.57%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $7.50 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $137.36 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | -1.29% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 2.23% |
| 3 months (2025-02-04) | -3.79% |
| 6 months (2024-11-04) | 10.04% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | 8.37% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-03) | 11.19% |
| 3 years (2022-05-03) | 125.67% |
| 5 years (2020-05-01) | 172.85% |
Valuing Preformed Line Products Company stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Preformed Line Products Company's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Preformed Line Products Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 19x. In other words, Preformed Line Products Company shares trade at around 19x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Preformed Line Products Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $71.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Preformed Line Products Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $593.7 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.61% |
| Gross profit TTM | $189.8 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.43% |
| Return on equity TTM | 8.85% |
| Profit margin | 6.25% |
| Book value | $85.95 |
| Market Capitalization | $687.5 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 10.67% of net profits
Recently Preformed Line Products Company has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Preformed Line Products Company shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Preformed Line Products Company's case, that would currently equate to about $0.8 per share.
While Preformed Line Products Company's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Preformed Line Products Company is investing more in its future growth.
Preformed Line Products Company's most recent dividend payout was on 20 April 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 31 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Preformed Line Products Company's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 10 June 1998 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Preformed Line Products Company shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Preformed Line Products Company shares which in turn could have impacted Preformed Line Products Company's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Preformed Line Products Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $108.513 up to $154.6788. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Preformed Line Products Company's is 0.656. This would suggest that Preformed Line Products Company's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Preformed Line Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures products and systems that are used in the construction and maintenance of overhead, ground-mounted, and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable, data communication, and other industries. The company offers optical ground wire products to support, protect, terminate, and splice transmission and distribution lines, as well as bolted, welded, and compressed connectors for substations; all dielectric self-supporting fiber optic cables to monitor and control power networks; and string hardware products, polymer insulators, wildlife protection, substation fittings, and motion control devices. It also provides rugged outside plant closures to protect and support wireline and wireless networks, such as fiber optic cable or copper cable from moisture, environmental hazards, and other contaminants; and hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, plastic products, cable dynamics/vibration solutions, interior/exterior connectors, tools, and urethane solutions that are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and special industries. In addition, the company provides drone inspection services for utility assets, including transmission and distribution power lines, substations, generation facilities, and communications assets, as well as solar framing and electric vehicle offerings. It serves public and private energy utilities and communication companies, cable operators, government agencies, contractors and subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company markets its products through a direct sales force, as well as through manufacturing representatives. Preformed Line Products Company was incorporated in 1947 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio.
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