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$96.62 +1.59 (+1.67%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

BPOP vs. GBCI, PB, FFIN, SSB, UBSI, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, and FHN

Should you be buying Popular stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Popular include Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), SouthState (SSB), United Bankshares (UBSI), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), and First Horizon (FHN). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.

Popular vs.

Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) and Glacier Bancorp (NASDAQ:GBCI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

87.3% of Popular shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Popular shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Popular pays out 33.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Glacier Bancorp pays out 81.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Popular is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Popular currently has a consensus target price of $104.88, indicating a potential upside of 8.54%. Glacier Bancorp has a consensus target price of $46.20, indicating a potential downside of 17.26%. Given Popular's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Popular is more favorable than Glacier Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Popular
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Glacier Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

Popular received 195 more outperform votes than Glacier Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.42% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 49.43% of users gave Glacier Bancorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PopularOutperform Votes
456
65.42%
Underperform Votes
241
34.58%
Glacier BancorpOutperform Votes
261
49.43%
Underperform Votes
267
50.57%

Glacier Bancorp has a net margin of 14.69% compared to Popular's net margin of 12.36%. Popular's return on equity of 11.35% beat Glacier Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Popular12.36% 11.35% 0.85%
Glacier Bancorp 14.69%5.84%0.65%

Popular has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Glacier Bancorp has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Popular had 1 more articles in the media than Glacier Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Popular and 6 mentions for Glacier Bancorp. Glacier Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Popular's score of 0.82 indicating that Glacier Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Popular
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Glacier Bancorp
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Popular has higher revenue and earnings than Glacier Bancorp. Popular is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glacier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Popular$3.90B1.77$541.34M$7.3613.13
Glacier Bancorp$1.14B5.58$222.93M$1.6234.47

Summary

Popular beats Glacier Bancorp on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BPOP vs. The Competition

MetricPopularState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$6.89B$3.16B$10.56B$8.82B
Dividend Yield2.58%3.50%10.16%4.07%
P/E Ratio13.1317.3649.3017.81
Price / Sales1.772.813,460.6574.38
Price / Cash11.0711.1530.5032.53
Price / Book1.361.322.764.68
Net Income$541.34M$405.80M$995.76M$226.08M
7 Day Performance-1.75%-1.21%-0.34%-2.04%
1 Month Performance-4.17%6.08%1.82%0.06%
1 Year Performance33.47%33.93%23.83%24.60%

Popular Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BPOP
Popular
4.8543 of 5 stars
$96.62
+1.7%
$104.88
+8.5%
+33.5%$6.89B$3.90B13.139,237Dividend Increase
GBCI
Glacier Bancorp
2.8683 of 5 stars
$55.84
flat
$46.20
-17.3%
+65.6%$6.33B$1.14B34.473,358News Coverage
Positive News
PB
Prosperity Bancshares
4.7312 of 5 stars
$81.71
-0.1%
$78.96
-3.4%
+36.8%$7.80B$1.60B17.353,850Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
FFIN
First Financial Bankshares
3.973 of 5 stars
$40.62
-0.8%
$37.75
-7.1%
+49.0%$5.85B$636.07M28.011,500News Coverage
Positive News
SSB
SouthState
3.8801 of 5 stars
$104.96
-0.1%
$105.11
+0.1%
+39.5%$8.02B$2.23B15.145,070Positive News
UBSI
United Bankshares
3.0337 of 5 stars
$41.40
-1.1%
$40.25
-2.8%
+22.3%$5.66B$1.54B15.682,635Positive News
HBAN
Huntington Bancshares
4.7714 of 5 stars
$17.47
-0.4%
$16.26
-6.9%
+57.8%$25.48B$10.84B16.8019,955Analyst Forecast
Positive News
RF
Regions Financial
4.7315 of 5 stars
$26.26
flat
$26.18
-0.3%
+61.1%$23.87B$9.15B14.8420,101Positive News
KEY
KeyCorp
4.7568 of 5 stars
$19.02
+0.1%
$18.03
-5.2%
+55.3%$18.83B$10.40B1,902.0017,333
EWBC
East West Bancorp
4.0078 of 5 stars
$105.50
+1.2%
$102.25
-3.1%
+71.1%$14.45B$3.99B13.323,206Positive News
FHN
First Horizon
4.6144 of 5 stars
$19.88
-1.1%
$18.38
-7.5%
+61.4%$10.66B$5.03B14.417,378Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:BPOP) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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