BPOP vs. FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, WBS, and CBSH
Should you be buying Popular stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Popular include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), SouthState (SSB), Webster Financial (WBS), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Popular vs. Its Competitors
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 296 more outperform votes than Popular when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.50% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 56.88% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.43% compared to Popular's net margin of 14.15%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 14.10% beat Popular's return on equity.
Fifth Third Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $47.53, suggesting a potential upside of 22.13%. Popular has a consensus target price of $114.43, suggesting a potential upside of 8.68%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than Popular.
83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Popular shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Popular shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 47.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Popular pays out 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Fifth Third Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Popular has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Popular has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Popular. Popular is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fifth Third Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Popular. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 18 mentions for Popular. Fifth Third Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Popular's score of 0.82 indicating that Fifth Third Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats Popular on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:BPOP) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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