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

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

Popular declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 23rd. Investors 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 of this dividend is Thursday, September 12th. 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, topping analysts' consensus estimates 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 business's quarterly revenue was up 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company 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 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Popular's shares. Their forecasts range from $59.00 to $66.00. On average, they expect Popular's stock price to reach $62.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.1% 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 very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Popular earned a daily sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Popular.

Popular saw a drop in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,440,000 shares, a drop 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 currently 2.9 days. Approximately 1.5% of the company's stock 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), Texas Instruments (TXN), Enbridge (ENB), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), General Electric (GE), ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH (NLY), AT&T (T), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) and bluebird bio (BLUE).

Popular's stock is owned by a number 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%), Cerebellum GP LLC (0.01%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (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 and Bowling Portfolio 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 Cerebellum GP LLC and Cerebellum GP 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 $54.62.

Popular has a market capitalization of $5.28 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]