NASDAQ:BPOP - Popular Stock Price, Forecast & News

Popular trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BPOP."

Popular announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 14th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Thursday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.13%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 4th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $1.70 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.60 by $0.10. The bank had revenue of $619.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $624.80 million. Popular had a net margin of 21.47% and a return on equity of 11.40%. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.38 earnings per share. View Popular's Earnings History.

Popular is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Popular.

2 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Popular's stock. Their forecasts range from $59.00 to $66.00. On average, they expect Popular's share price to reach $62.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Popular.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Popular in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Popular.

Headlines about BPOP stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a news sentiment score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a increase in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,910,000 shares, an increase of 15.8% from the September 30th total of 1,650,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 516,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.0% of the company's stock are sold short. View Popular's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Popular include PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), BB&T (BBT), SunTrust Banks (STI), M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), KeyCorp (KEY), First Republic Bank (FRC), Regions Financial (RF), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Zions Bancorporation NA (ZION), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Signature Bank (SBNY), East West Bancorp (EWBC) and BOK Financial (BOKF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), General Electric (GE), AT&T (T), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), bluebird bio (BLUE), Celgene (CELG) and Frontier Communications (FTR).

Popular's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Polaris Capital Management LLC (4.18%), State Street Corp (2.18%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (1.59%), Man Group plc (0.80%), Raging Capital Management LLC (0.63%) and Point72 Asset Management L.P. (0.60%). Company insiders that own Popular stock include Alejandro M Ballester, Beatriz Castellvi, Carlos J Vazquez, Eduardo J Negron, Eli Sepulveda, Gilberto Monzon, Ignacio Alvarez, Javier D Ferrer, Joaquin E Bacardi III, Jorge J Garcia, Juan Guerrero, Luis E Cestero, Maria Luisa Ferre and Richard L Carrion. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Popular.

BPOP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Boston Partners, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Polaris Capital Management LLC, Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Man Group plc, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and ARP Americas LP. Company insiders that have sold Popular company stock in the last year include Carlos J Vazquez, Eduardo J Negron, Eli Sepulveda, Gilberto Monzon, Javier D Ferrer, Joaquin E Bacardi III, Jorge J Garcia, Luis E Cestero and Maria Luisa Ferre. View Insider Buying and Selling for Popular.

BPOP stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Cerebellum GP LLC, Raging Capital Management LLC, Keeley Teton Advisors LLC, Alberta Investment Management Corp and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Popular.

Shares of BPOP can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BPOP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $56.36.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.45 billion and generates $2.67 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $618.16 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.77 on an earnings per share basis. Popular employs 8,474 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Popular.

The official website for Popular is http://www.popular.com/.

Popular's mailing address is 209 Munoz Rivera Avenue Popular Center Building, Hato Rey PR, 00936. The bank can be reached via phone at 787-765-9800 or via email at [email protected]