Popular (BPOP) Stock Price, News & Analysis

9 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Popular in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" BPOP shares.
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9 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Popular's stock. Their BPOP share price targets range from $63.00 to $115.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $99.89 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.6% from the stock's current price.
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Popular's stock was trading at $82.07 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, BPOP shares have increased by 6.2% and is now trading at $87.16.
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Popular saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 504,500 shares, an increase of 5.3% from the March 31st total of 479,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 484,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.0 days. Currently, 0.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 24th 2024.
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Popular, Inc. (NASDAQ:BPOP) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The bank reported $1.90 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.81 by $0.09. The bank had revenue of $693.60 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $703.21 million. Popular had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.95% and a net margin of 11.95%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 31.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $5.70 EPS.

Popular declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 23rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.62 per share on Monday, April 1st. This represents a $2.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.85%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 13th.
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Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.92%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 5 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 36.80%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BPOP will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.53% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF (DDIV), Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (KBWR), Freedom Day Dividend ETF (MBOX), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Value ETF (DVLU), SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE), SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), Alpha Intelligent - Large Cap Value ETF (AILV) and iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT).

78 employees have rated Popular Chief Executive Officer Ignacio Alvarez on Glassdoor.com. Ignacio Alvarez has an approval rating of 90% among the company's employees. 82.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Popular to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Popular investors own include AT&T (T), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), AbbVie (ABBV), Pfizer (PFE), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Alibaba Group (BABA), Energy Transfer (ET), Intel (INTC), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Popular's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Polaris Capital Management LLC (2.74%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.40%), Fourth Sail Capital LP (0.25%), Perpetual Ltd (0.16%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.14%) and Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.14%). Insiders that own company stock include Alejandro M Sanchez, Beatriz Castellvi, C Kim Goodwin, Camille Burckhart, Carlos J Vazquez, Carlos J Vazquez, Carlos Unanue, Eduardo J Negron, Eli Sepulveda, Gilberto Monzon, Ignacio Alvarez, Javier D Ferrer, Jorge J Garcia, Juan Guerrero, Luis E Cestero, Manuel Chinea, Maria Luisa Ferre and Richard L Carrion.
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Shares of BPOP stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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