Popular Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP) started the day on March 16, 2023, with a price increase of 1.89% at $52.70. During the day, the stock rose to $53.7577 and sunk to $50.00 before settling in for the price of $51.72 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, BPOP posted a 52-week range of $49.34-$86.84.
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The Financial sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 7.40% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 40.50%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 27.60%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $72.07 million, simultaneously with a float of $71.51 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $3.85 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $67.57, while the 200-day Moving Average is $72.72.
Popular Inc. (BPOP) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Banks – Regional Industry. Popular Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.90%, in contrast to 89.10% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Aug 26, this organization’s Executive Vice President & CFO sold 9,635 shares at the rate of 80.38, making the entire transaction reach 774,461 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 118,015. Preceding that transaction, on Aug 26, Company’s Senior VP & Comptroller sold 1,383 for 80.22, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 110,937. This particular insider is now the holder of 9,299 in total.
Popular Inc. (BPOP) Earnings and Revenue Records
In the latest quarterly report released, which was put into the public domain on 12/30/2022, the organization reported $3.56 earnings per share (EPS) for the three months, surpassing the consensus estimate (set at $2.62) by $0.94. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.13 per share during the current fiscal year.
Popular Inc.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 27.60% and is forecasted to reach 9.84 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 5.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 40.50% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Popular Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Popular Inc. (BPOP). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 3.02. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $3.58, and its Beta score is 0.89. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.56. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 5.14.
In the same vein, BPOP’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 14.71, a figure that is expected to reach 2.01 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 9.84 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Popular Inc. (BPOP)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Popular Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP), its last 5-days Average volume was 2.07 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 0.66 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 11.82% While, its Average True Range was 3.55.
Raw Stochastic average of Popular Inc. (BPOP) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 11.95%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 14.64% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 48.94% that was higher than 37.24% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.