Can Popular Inc’s (BPOP) hike of 5.07% in a week be considered a lucky break?

A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Popular Inc (NASDAQ: BPOP) stock price up 0.44% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $103.61. BPOP’s price has ranged from $78.23 to $106.81 over the past 52 weeks.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Financial sector saw sales topped by 52.18%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 15.25%. With a float of $67.81 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $68.98 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 9231 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 66.06%, operating margin of 29.22%, and the pretax margin is 27.23%.

Popular Inc (BPOP) Insider and Institutional Ownership

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Banks – Regional Industry. The insider ownership of Popular Inc is 2.21%, while institutional ownership is 90.90%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 06 ’25, was worth 984,683. In this transaction EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT of this company sold 9,600 shares at a rate of $102.57, taking the stock ownership to the 39,170 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jan 31 ’25, when Company’s Executive Vice President sold 10,000 for $103.40, making the entire transaction worth $1,033,969. This insider now owns 17,147 shares in total.

Popular Inc (BPOP) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.61 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.25% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 16.29% during the next five years compared to 7.82% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ: BPOP) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are Popular Inc’s current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.66. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 15.52.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 9.69, a number that is poised to hit 2.53 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.06 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Popular Inc (BPOP)

The latest stats from [Popular Inc, BPOP] show that its last 5-days average volume of 0.51 million was inferior to 0.61 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 87.83%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.96.

During the past 100 days, Popular Inc’s (BPOP) raw stochastic average was set at 90.41%, which indicates a significant decrease from 91.54% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 19.12% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 34.46% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $91.63, while its 200-day Moving Average is $96.36. Now, the first resistance to watch is $104.88. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $105.70. The third major resistance level sits at $106.29. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $103.47, it is likely to go to the next support level at $102.88. The third support level lies at $102.06 if the price breaches the second support level.

Popular Inc (NASDAQ: BPOP) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 7.22 billion, the company has a total of 69,339K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 4,332 M while annual income is 614,210 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 1,069 M while its latest quarter income was 177,150 K.