Popular (BPOP) Investors Take Note

By Ken Smith • Saturday, December 31 12:00 • Permanent Link

Popular marked a 1.6% change Friday, compared to -0.3% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $66.32? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Popular, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various retail, mortgage, and commercial banking products and services in Puerto Rico, the United States, and British Virgin Islands.
Popular belongs to the Financial Services sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 13.34 and an average price to book (P/B) of 1.95
The company's P/B ratio is 1.3
Popular has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 4.9 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (Eps) of $13.66 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 6.7, based on its forward earnings per share (Eps) of $9.92
BPOP has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 0.95, which shows the company is very undervalued compared to its earnings growth estimates.
Over the last four years, Popular has averaged free cash flows of $723,136,000.00, which on average grew 25.2%
Popular has moved -19.8% over the last year compared to -20.0% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 0.1%
BPOP has an average analyst rating of buy and is -25.34% away from its mean target price of $88.83 per share

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