Popular Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:BPOP)

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

Popular declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 23rd. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.20%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 firm's revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $2.73 earnings per share. 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 12-month price objectives for Popular's stock. Their forecasts range from $59.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Popular's stock price to reach $62.3333 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.4% 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 recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a media sentiment score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the bank a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a drop in short interest in 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 currently 4.4 days. Currently, 2.2% of the company's shares are sold short. View Popular's Current Options Chain.

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

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), American Airlines Group (AAL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Celgene (CELG), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

Popular's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BPOP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.51.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.27 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]