Popular (BPOP) Investors Brace for Losses

By Chris Stiles • Wednesday, January 25 10:34 • Permanent Link

Popular moved -6.58% this morning session, trading between a high of $69.04 and a low of $67.7 per share. Yesterday the stock finished at $69.04 per share, compared to an average analyst target price of $85.6.

Popular, Inc., offers various retail, mortgage and commercial banking products and services in Puerto Rico and the United States. The mid-cap state commercial banks company is based in the United States, and over the last twelve months it has returned a dividend yield of 3.19%. Popular has trailing twelve months earnings per share (EPS) of 13.66, which at today's prices amounts to a price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 5.0.

Based on its expected future earnings growth, the company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 1.75. Usually a PEG ratio between zero and one indicates a potentially undervalued company.

BPOP has a revenue per share ratio of 39.0 based on its total revenue of $3,002,660,000. The company's revenues have a year-on-year growth rate of 33.0%, compared to a YoY growth rate of 84.5% for its earnings.

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