Popular Stock Price, News & 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 paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, October 1st. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.22%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 12th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 24th. The bank reported $1.38 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.18 by $0.20. The bank had revenue of $602.49 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $586.10 million. Popular had a net margin of 20.86% and a return on equity of 11.29%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.19 earnings per share. View Popular's Earnings History.

Popular is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Popular.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Popular's shares. Their predictions range from $59.00 to $66.00. On average, they expect Popular's stock price to reach $62.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Popular.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Popular in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Popular.

News headlines about BPOP stock have been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the bank a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a decline in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,440,000 shares, a decline of 10.6% from the August 30th total of 1,610,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 500,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.9 days. Currently, 1.5% of the company's shares are short sold. 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 Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include Gilead Sciences (GILD), Texas Instruments (TXN), Valero Energy (VLO), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), General Electric (GE), Corning (GLW), Hilton Hotels (HLT), Huntsman (HUN) and ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH (NLY).

Popular's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.23%), Alberta Investment Management Corp (0.18%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.14%), Cerebellum GP LLC (0.10%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.08%) and Northpointe Capital LLC (0.07%). Company insiders that own Popular stock include Alejandro M Ballester, Beatriz Castellvi, Carlos J Vazquez, Eli Sepulveda, Gilberto Monzon, Ignacio Alvarez, Jorge J Garcia, Juan Guerrero, 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 Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Northpointe Capital LLC, Convergence Investment Partners LLC, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Strs Ohio, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC and Bailard Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Popular company stock in the last year include Carlos J Vazquez, Eli Sepulveda, Gilberto Monzon, Juan Guerrero and Maria Luisa Ferre. View Insider Buying and Selling for Popular.

BPOP stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Cerebellum GP LLC, Alberta Investment Management Corp, Cerebellum GP LLC, Rhumbline Advisers, Meeder Asset Management Inc., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. 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 $53.97.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.22 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]