Public Power Corporation
Public Power Corporation (PPC) closed at €22.58 on 26/10/2026, +1.90% on the day. Market cap €13.3bn, P/E 17.5, dividend yield 2.66%.
Announcements to the exchange
Key statistics
12 months to Jun 2026 unless a figure says otherwise
Profile
At the 26 Oct close- Market value
- €13.3bn
- Enterprise valueJun 2026est.
- €17bn
- Shares outstandingJun 2026
- 587.4m
- Revenue12 months to Jun 2026
- €9.6bn
- Employees
- 20,188
- Free floatest.
- 9.1%
- Traded a day, 3-month average
- €25.6m
Valuation
12 months to Jun 2026- P/E
- 17.5×
- P/B
- 1.4×
- EV/Salesest.
- 1.8×
- EV/EBITDAest.
- 7.4×
- P/FCF
- —
- Dividend yield
- 2.7%
5 years, on reported full years: 4.7–10.1×, median 7.0×. Today 10.2×, higher than 100% of months.
not meaningful here
Margins
12 months to Jun 2026- GrossFY2025
- —
- EBITDA
- 23.9%
- Operating (EBIT)
- 11.8%
- Pre-taxFY2025
- 4.6%
- Net
- 5.1%
- Free cash flow
- −2.1%
its accounts show no gross profit
Net margin = the shareholders' profit ÷ group revenue.
Returns
12 months to Jun 2026- ROE
- 5.2%
- ROCE
- 8.7%
- ROICest.
- 7.0%
- ROAFY2025
- 1.3%
- ROE, 5-year averageFY2021–25
- 3.7%
- Tax rateFY2025
- 19.8%
- Profit to minority holdersFY2025
- 17.9%
Financial health
Jun 2026- CashDec 2025
- €2.1bn
- Net debt
- €2.7bn
- Net debt ÷ EBITDA
- 1.2×
- Debt ÷ equityDec 2025
- 145.7%
- Interest cover12 months to Jun 2026
- 2.5×
leases included
Growth
- Revenue, last yearFY2025
- +8.0%
- Revenue, last halfH1 2026
- −2.1%
- EPS, last yearFY2025
- +97.7%
- EPS, last halfH1 2026
- +122.2%
- Revenue, 3 yearsFY2022–25, a year
- −4.8%
- Revenue, 5 yearsFY2020–25, a year
- +15.8%
- EPS, 3 yearsFY2022–25, a year
- —
- Shares, 3 yearsFY2022–25
- −7.2%
not meaningful: crosses a loss
Dividends
FY2025- Yield, last 12 months
- 2.7%
- Per share
- €0.600
- Payout
- 70.6%
- Covered by free cash flow
- −2.5×
- Years paid, last fiveFY2021–25
- 3
Trading and risk
From our closes, dividends reinvested- Total return, 1 year
- +57.8%
- 3 years, a year
- +38.0%
- 5 years, a year
- +21.8%
- 10 years, a year
- +35.8%
- Volatility, 1 year
- 27.3%
- Beta to the General Index
- 0.79×
- Deepest fall, 1 year / 5 years
- −16.5% / −55.5%
- 52-week range
- €14.87–€24.86
Where the figures come from: the company's reports, reviewed by us · annual accounts filed in ESEF format · results announcements on the exchange · our own closing prices. No forecasts or target prices are stored.
Financial charts
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Valuation
no like-for-like peer| Metric | PPC |
|---|---|
| P/E | 17.5 |
| P/B | 1.4 |
| P/S | 1.4 |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.4 |
| Dividend yield | 2.7% |
| Payout ratio | 70.6% |
| Operating margin | 11.8% |
| Net margin | 5.1% |
| ROE | 5.2% |
| Revenue growth (last full year) | 8.0% |
| Net debt | €2.7bn |
Peers: Power utilities
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The company
AI-draftedPPC generates electricity from renewables, gas, oil and lignite, runs Greece's distribution network through HEDNO and part of Romania's through PPC Retele Electrice, and supplies power to about 8.6 million customers in the two countries. It also sells appliances through Kotsovolos and runs fibre-to-the-home and EV-charging businesses.
- No longer state-controlled: the Hellenic Republic holds 33.40% directly and through HCAP, not a majority.1
- Not a lignite utility any more: lignite was 0.7 GW of the 12.4 GW installed at end-2025, and its generation stops during 2026.8,9
- Not purely Greek: Romania was 22.5% of FY2025 gross geographic sales before inter-segment eliminations.9
- Oct 2026Completed the purchase of a 277.3 MW Polish renewables portfolio from EDP Renewables, 175.4 MW of it operating.11
- Sep 2026A new €675m receivables securitisation closed on 25 September, non-recourse to parent PPC; its effect on consolidated net debt has not yet been reported.10
- Sep 2026Completed the purchase of 17 Polish ABO Energy subsidiaries with up to 1.2 GW, mostly in development; the roughly 1.1 GW Hungarian transaction remains conditional.6
- Sep 2026Binding MoU with AWS for an initial 300 MW Western Macedonia data-centre phase; definitive commercial agreements, grid connection and approvals remain pending.7
- Jun 2026Agreement with MORE for six wind farms of 107 MW and the remaining 51% of 1,175 MW of solar under development.5
- May 2026Completed a €4.25bn share capital increase, issuing 228.1 million new shares at €18.63.1
- Adjusted EBITDA of €1.24bn in H1 2026 from €1.00bn, with a €2.4bn target for the full year.1
- PPC reported €2.7bn net debt at 30 June 2026; its measure excludes €396.8m of leases and the €1.52bn HEDNO minority put liability.1
- €24.2bn of capital expenditure planned to 2030 for 24.3 GW of capacity and about €4.6bn of EBITDA.12,2
- The Hellenic Republic holds 33.40%, CVC 17.17% and Capital Group 5.05% of voting rights.1,3,4
- A dividend of €0.60 per share for FY2025, with €0.80 targeted for 2026.1
- 1.Financial Report H1 2026Public Power Corporation S.A. · 05/08/2026official
- 2.Transformational Growth Plan, 2026-2030 Strategic UpdatePublic Power Corporation S.A. · 23/04/2026official
- 3.Announcement of regulated information under L. 3556/2007 (CVC holdings)Public Power Corporation S.A. · 03/06/2026official
- 4.Announcement of regulated information under L. 3556/2007 (Capital Group holdings)Public Power Corporation S.A. · 14/07/2026official
- 5.PPC Group strengthens its Renewable Energy portfolio in GreecePublic Power Corporation S.A. · 04/06/2026official
- 6.Completion of ABO Energy Polish subsidiaries acquisitionPPC S.A. / Euronext Athens · 18/09/2026official
- 7.Binding AWS data-centre MoU frameworkPPC S.A. / Euronext Athens · 17/09/2026official
- 8.FY2025 Financial Results presentationPublic Power Corporation S.A. · 19/03/2026official
- 9.FY2025 Annual Financial Report ESEF packagePPC S.A. / Euronext Athens · 19/03/2026official
- 10.Completion of a €675 million receivables securitization transactionPublic Power Corporation S.A. · 30/09/2026official
- 11.Completion of the acquisition of a 277.3 MW RES portfolio in PolandPPC S.A. / Euronext Athens · 01/10/2026official
- 12.Capital raising through share capital increase for the funding of the 2030 Strategic PlanPPC S.A. / Euronext Athens · 23/04/2026official