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Financial Highlights

For the 12-month period ending March 31 (unaudited)

document icon (pdf) Click here for Reconciliation of PPL's reported Earnings from Ongoing Operations for the first quarter and 12 months ended March 31, 2009, compared with 2008.

2009

2008

FINANCIAL (a)

Operating revenues (millions)

$8,877

$6,478

Net income attributable to PPL (millions)

$911

$1,345

Earnings from ongoing operations (millions) (a)

$759

$977

Total assets (millions) (b)

$21,790

$21,055

Earnings per share - Basic

$2.42

$3.54

Earnings per share - Diluted

$2.42

$3.53

Earnings from ongoing operations per share - Basic(d)

$2.01

$2.57

Earnings from ongoing operations per share - Diluted(d)

$2.01

$2.56

Dividends declared per share

$1.35

$1.25

Book value per share (b)

$13.94

$14.97

Market price per share (b)

$28.71

$45.92

Dividend yield (b)

4.7%

2.7%

Dividend payout ratio (c)

56%

35%

Dividend payout ratio - Earnings from ongoing operations (c,d)

67%

49%

Market price/Book value ratio (b)

206%

307%

Price/earnings ratio (b,c)

11.9

13.0

Price/earnings ratio - Earnings from ongoing operations (b,c,d)

14.3

17.9

Return on average common equity

16.79%

25.13%

Return on average common equity - Earnings from ongoing operations (d)

14.54%

18.71%

OPERATING - DOMESTIC ENERGY

Total retail electricity delivered (millions of kwh)

38,153

38,211

Total retail electricity supplied (millions of kwh)

40,486

40,356

Total wholesale electricity supplied (millions of kwh)

42,821

35,752

OPERATING - INTERNATIONAL DELIVERED

United Kingdom (millions of kwh)

27,574

27,917

(a)

Earnings and certain financial ratios were affected by several special charges or credits. Earnings from ongoing operations excludes the impact of special items. Click on the link at the top of this schedule to reference a reconciliation of net income attributable to PPL, or reported earnings, and earnings from ongoing operations. Earnings from ongoing operations should not be considered as an alternative to net income attributable to PPL, which is an indicator of operating performance determined in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). PPL believes that earnings from ongoing operations, although a non-GAAP measure, is also useful and meaningful to investors because it provides them with PPL's underlying earnings performance as another criterion in making their investment decisions. PPL's management also uses earnings from ongoing operations in measuring certain corporate performance goals. Other companies may use different measures to present financial performance.

(b)

End of period.

(c)

Results based on diluted earnings per share.

(d)

Calculated using earnings from ongoing operations.