NASDAQ:BPOP - Popular Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Popular announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 8th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, May 28th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Monday, July 1st. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.35%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 24th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 24th. The bank reported $1.76 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.64 by $0.12. The bank had revenue of $614.60 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $620.22 million. Popular had a return on equity of 11.29% and a net margin of 20.86%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business 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 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Popular's shares. 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 22.2% 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 trended positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a daily sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the bank a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a decline in short interest during the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,419,800 shares, a decline of 10.6% from the June 15th total of 2,706,500 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 456,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.3 days. Currently, 2.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Popular's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include Gilead Sciences (GILD), Starbucks (SBUX), General Electric (GE), ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH (NLY), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Celgene (CELG), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

Popular's stock is owned by a number of 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BPOP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $51.02.

Popular has a market capitalization of $4.93 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]