NASDAQ:BPOP - Popular Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Popular declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 8th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, May 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Monday, July 1st. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.28%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 24th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) released its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 24th. The bank reported $1.76 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.64 by $0.12. The bank had revenue of $614.60 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $620.22 million. Popular had a return on equity of 11.29% and a net margin of 20.86%. Popular's quarterly revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $2.73 EPS. 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 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Popular's stock. Their predictions range from $59.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Popular's share price to reach $62.3333 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 18.6% 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 stories about BPOP stock have been trending negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of 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 -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories 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 company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a decrease in short interest during the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,419,800 shares, a decrease of 10.6% from the June 15th total of 2,706,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 456,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.3 days. Approximately 2.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Popular's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Popular include M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Northern Trust (NTRS), State Street (STT), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Deutsche Bank (DB), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Signature Bank (SBNY), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN) and IBERIABANK (IBKC).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include Gilead Sciences (GILD), Starbucks (SBUX), General Electric (GE), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Celgene (CELG), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Enbridge (ENB).

Popular's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.91%), BlackRock Inc. (4.54%), Polaris Capital Management LLC (4.33%), Investec Asset Management LTD (3.55%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.98%) and AQR Capital Management LLC (2.98%). 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 Prudential Financial Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Man Group plc, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, AQR Capital Management LLC and Raging Capital Management LLC. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, Point72 Asset Management L.P., UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., APG Asset Management N.V., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. and Atria Investments 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BPOP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.54.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.08 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]