NASDAQ:BPOP - Popular Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Popular declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 14th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 5th will be given 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 is Wednesday, December 4th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $1.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.60 by $0.10. The bank had revenue of $619.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $624.80 million. Popular had a net margin of 21.47% and a return on equity of 11.40%. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Popular's shares. Their forecasts range from $69.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect Popular's share 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 stories about BPOP stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm rates 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 -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a media sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines 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 near term. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a decrease in short interest during the month of 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 trading volume of 532,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days. Approximately 1.3% of the shares of the company 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 General Electric (GE), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), Gilead Sciences (GILD), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Starbucks (SBUX), Alibaba Group (BABA), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET) and Corning (GLW).

Popular's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 purchased 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]