NASDAQ:BPOPPopular Stock Price, Forecast & News

Popular's stock was trading at $38.31 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BPOP stock has decreased by 5.8% and is now trading at $36.09.
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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."
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Popular is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 28th 2020.
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Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) announced its earnings results on Thursday, July, 23rd. The bank reported $1.49 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.92 by $0.57. The bank earned $562.94 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $572.30 million. Popular had a net margin of 18.03% and a return on equity of 8.43%. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.76 EPS.
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Popular declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 13th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, June 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Wednesday, July 1st. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 1st.
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3 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Popular's stock. Their forecasts range from $48.00 to $59.00. On average, they anticipate Popular's stock price to reach $53.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 46.9% from the stock's current price.
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Headlines about BPOP stock have been trending positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a news sentiment score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.
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Popular saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,180,000 shares, an increase of 6.3% from the July 15th total of 1,110,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 779,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company's shares are short sold.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include AbbVie (ABBV), AT&T (T), Alibaba Group (BABA), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Enbridge (ENB), Altria Group (MO) and Pfizer (PFE).

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

Popular's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (4.06%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (1.83%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (1.76%), First Trust Advisors LP (1.06%), LSV Asset Management (0.64%) and Swiss National Bank (0.25%). Company insiders that own Popular stock include 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 and Maria Luisa Ferre.
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BPOP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Stilwell Value LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC, UBS Group AG, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., LSV Asset Management, and Dupont Capital Management Corp. 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.
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BPOP stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Cerebellum GP LLC, Mendon Capital Advisors Corp, Swiss National Bank, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, and Zeke Capital Advisors LLC.
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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 $36.09.

Popular has a market capitalization of $3.09 billion and generates $2.83 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $671.14 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.88 on an earnings per share basis. Popular employs 8,560 workers across the globe.

The official website for Popular is 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]