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

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 2.20%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 12th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) released its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 24th. The bank reported $1.76 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the 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 net margin of 20.86% and a return on equity of 11.29%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year 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 year. 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.

Press coverage about BPOP stock has trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a daily sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely 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 in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,058,500 shares, a decline of 14.5% from the July 31st total of 2,406,300 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 463,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.4 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's stock 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), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Signature Bank (SBNY), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), 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 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 $54.51.

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]