With 0.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.48 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $98.855 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $95.63. The 52-week range on BPOP shows that it touched its highest point at $105.01 and its lowest point at $66.72 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $103.44. With its current market cap of 6.89 billion, BPOP has annualized dividend of $2.48 while the current yield stands at 2.58%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.83.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of BPOP was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.52%, but this was down by -0.58% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 0.52% while six-month performance rose 6.84%. The stock gained 39.33% in the past year, while it has gained 16.90% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BPOP yields 7.36 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.93. For the next quarter, that number is 2.06. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.42% for this year and 16.74% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 11.41% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.79%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 72.15 million BPOP shares are outstanding with a float of 70.28 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 0.99 million, which was 138.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Ignacio Alvarez Esq. as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Javier D. Ferrer-Fernández J.D. serves as its President, COO & Corporate Secretary.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.91043 of BPOP’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BPOP since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With BPOP analysts setting a high price target of 112.0 and a low target of 96.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 103.44. Based on these targets, BPOP could surge 16.74% to reach the target high and rise by 0.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 7.82% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.74362 being high and $8.39468 being low. For BPOP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.50788. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $2.12. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.45 and the low estimate is $1.93. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.12.
