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. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 5th will be given 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 2.47%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 4th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 28th. The bank reported $1.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.47 by $0.25. The bank had revenue of $619.84 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $568.25 million. Popular had a return on equity of 11.84% and a net margin of 23.58%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.33 EPS. View Popular's Earnings History.

Popular is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Popular.

1 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Popular's shares. Their forecasts range from $69.00 to $69.00. On average, they anticipate Popular's share price to reach $69.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 41.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Popular.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Popular in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Popular.

Media headlines about BPOP stock have been trending extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a daily sentiment score of -4.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a drop in short interest in February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 850,700 shares, a drop of 12.9% from the January 30th total of 976,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 564,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 0.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Popular's Current Options Chain.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include AbbVie (ABBV), Alibaba Group (BABA), Altria Group (MO), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Pfizer (PFE) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Popular's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include AQR Capital Management LLC (3.74%), Investec Asset Management LTD (3.10%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (2.64%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (2.46%), AJO LP (2.38%) and State Street Corp (2.29%). 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 Point72 Asset Management L.P., UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, AJO LP, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. and AXA. Company insiders that have sold Popular company stock in the last year include Eduardo J Negron, Eli Sepulveda, 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., AQR Capital Management LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. and State Street Corp. 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 $48.61.

Popular has a market capitalization of $4.70 billion and generates $2.83 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $667.41 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.88 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]