NASDAQ:BPOP - Popular Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Popular announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 23rd. Stockholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.19%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 12th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 24th. The bank reported $1.76 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.64 by $0.12. The bank earned $614.60 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $620.22 million. Popular had a return on equity of 11.29% and a net margin of 20.86%. The business's revenue was up 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm 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 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 $62.3333 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.7% 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.

Media coverage about BPOP stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores 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 -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a media sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the bank a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning 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 drop in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,058,500 shares, a drop of 14.5% from the July 31st total of 2,406,300 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 463,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.4 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Popular's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Popular include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Deutsche Bank (DB), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Signature Bank (SBNY), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), United Bankshares (UBSI), IBERIABANK (IBKC), Wintrust Financial (WTFC) and Bank Ozk (OZK).

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 investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.91%), BlackRock Inc. (4.54%), BlackRock Inc. (4.54%), Polaris Capital Management LLC (4.33%), Investec Asset Management LTD (3.55%) and Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (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., BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Man Group plc, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and AQR 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 bought 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BPOP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.84.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.30 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]