With 0.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.54 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $99.85 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $98.45. The 52-week range on BPOP shows that it touched its highest point at $105.01 and its lowest point at $79.01 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $108.44. With its current market cap of 7.04 billion, BPOP has annualized dividend of $2.56 while the current yield stands at 2.59%. BPOP paid its most recent dividend on 1726185600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733443200. 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 4.26%, but this was up by 3.20% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.23% while six-month performance fell -1.62%. The stock gained 22.74% in the past year, while it has gained 4.94% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BPOP yields 7.36 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.81. For the next quarter, that number is 2.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.22% for this year and 15.58% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.48% 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, 71.79 million BPOP shares are outstanding with a float of 69.79 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.16 million, which was 162.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. 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 0.90279996 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 116.0 and a low target of 100.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 108.44444. Based on these targets, BPOP could surge 17.52% to reach the target high and rise by 1.31% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.86% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.52161 being high and $8.46103 being low. For BPOP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.49132. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.15 and the low estimate is $1.93. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.05.
