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. Investors of record on Thursday, December 5th will be paid 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 1.95%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 4th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $1.70 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.60 by $0.10. The bank earned $619.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $624.80 million. Popular had a return on equity of 11.40% and a net margin of 21.47%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.38 EPS. View Popular's Earnings History.

Popular is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Popular.

Popular will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 28th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

1 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Popular's shares. Their forecasts range from $69.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect Popular's stock price to reach $69.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 12.4% 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.

News headlines about BPOP stock have trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a daily sentiment score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a decrease in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,190,000 shares, a decrease of 14.4% from the December 15th total of 1,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 532,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.2 days. Currently, 1.3% 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), 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), Zions Bancorporation NA (ZION), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Signature Bank (SBNY), TCF Financial (TCF) and East West Bancorp (EWBC).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Alibaba Group (BABA), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), General Electric (GE), Corning (GLW), Huntsman (HUN) and 3M (MMM).

Popular's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.25%), United Services Automobile Association (0.09%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.06%), AE Wealth Management LLC (0.02%), Cerebellum GP LLC (0.01%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.00%). 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 Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, United Services Automobile Association, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Nisa Investment 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, 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 Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC and AE Wealth Management 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 $61.39.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.94 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]