NASDAQ:BPOP - Popular Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Popular announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 14th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Thursday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.51%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 4th. View Popular's Dividend History.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 28th. The bank reported $1.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.47 by $0.25. The bank earned $619.84 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $568.25 million. Popular had a net margin of 23.58% and a return on equity of 11.84%. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.33 EPS. View Popular's Earnings History.

Popular is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Popular.

1 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Popular's shares. Their forecasts range from $69.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect Popular's stock price to reach $69.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 44.1% 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.

Media stories about BPOP stock have been trending very negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a news impact score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a decline in short interest in February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 850,700 shares, a decline of 12.9% from the January 30th total of 976,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 564,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 0.9% of the company's stock are short sold. 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 AbbVie (ABBV), Alibaba Group (BABA), Altria Group (MO), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Pfizer (PFE) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Popular's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include AQR Capital Management LLC (3.74%), Investec Asset Management LTD (3.10%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (2.64%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (2.46%), AJO LP (2.38%) and State Street Corp (2.29%). 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 Point72 Asset Management L.P., UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, AJO LP, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. and AXA. 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. View Insider Buying and Selling for Popular.

BPOP stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., AQR Capital Management LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. and State Street Corp. 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 $47.87.

Popular has a market capitalization of $4.63 billion and generates $2.83 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $667.41 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.88 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]