Popular Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NASDAQ:BPOP)

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

Popular declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 23rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 13th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, October 1st. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.18%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 12th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $1.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.60 by $0.10. The bank earned $619.70 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $624.80 million. Popular had a net margin of 21.47% and a return on equity of 11.40%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.38 EPS. 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 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Popular's stock. Their forecasts range from $59.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Popular's share price to reach $62.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.4% 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.

News articles about BPOP stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a increase in short interest during the month of 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 daily trading volume, of 516,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Popular's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include Gilead Sciences (GILD), Texas Instruments (TXN), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), General Electric (GE), ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH (NLY), AT&T (T), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) and bluebird bio (BLUE).

Popular's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Russell Investments Group Ltd. (1.59%), Minneapolis Portfolio Management Group LLC (0.57%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.44%), Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (0.43%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.30%) and Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.23%). Company insiders that own Popular stock include Alejandro M Ballester, Beatriz Castellvi, Carlos J Vazquez, Eduardo J Negron, Eli Sepulveda, Gilberto Monzon, Ignacio Alvarez, 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 Russell Investments Group Ltd., Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, ARP Americas LP, Northpointe Capital LLC, Minneapolis Portfolio Management Group LLC, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. and Oxbow Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Popular company stock in the last year include Carlos J Vazquez, Eduardo J Negron, Eli Sepulveda, Gilberto Monzon, Joaquin E Bacardi III, Luis E Cestero and Maria Luisa Ferre. View Insider Buying and Selling for Popular.

BPOP stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Trust Advisors LP, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Cerebellum GP LLC, Alberta Investment Management Corp, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Dupont Capital Management Corp and Foster & Motley 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 $55.10.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.33 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]