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

Popular Inc (NASDAQ:BPOP) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 24th. The bank reported $1.76 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates 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 company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $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.

Popular will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 23rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

3 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Popular's stock. Their forecasts range from $59.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Popular's share price to reach $62.33 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.

Headlines about BPOP stock have been trending somewhat positive on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog 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 media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines 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 company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a decline in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,440,000 shares, a decline of 10.6% from the August 30th total of 1,610,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 500,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.9 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the company 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 Gilead Sciences (GILD), Texas Instruments (TXN), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), General Electric (GE), Huntsman (HUN), ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH (NLY), OFG Bancorp (OFG), AT&T (T) and Visa (v).

Popular's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.23%), Cerebellum GP LLC (0.10%), Northpointe Capital LLC (0.07%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.06%), Meeder Asset Management Inc. (0.05%) and Bailard Inc. (0.01%). 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 Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Northpointe Capital LLC, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC and Bailard Inc.. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cerebellum GP LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC, Meeder Asset Management Inc. and Nisa Investment Advisors 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 $54.50.

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]