profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Popular
$158.50-1.00% today
+36.0% in 1 year
1-year low $110.141-year high $177.87
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $11.87 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
Not measured for banks and insurers: deposits and policy reserves count as debt, so the usual debt test says nothing about them.
Money in, money out
What Popular sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $2.94 billion in 2022 to $3.05 billion in 2025, with $833 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Popular handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks $505M$198M
Free cash flow 2025$681M
Bought back its own shares$505M
Paid as dividends$198M
Cash vs. debt$5.0B vs. $1.5B
Popular vs. similar companies
Popular grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular | 11.9× · Cheap | ||
 China Merchants Bank | 7.7× · Cheap | ||
 DBS Group Holdings | 18.5× · Fair price | ||
 UniCredit | 11.5× · Cheap | ||
 HDFC Bank | 18.6× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Popular's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,937 | 2,644 | 2,799 | 3,047 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 1,589 | 1,848 | 2,245 | 2,302 | |
| 1,103 | 541 | 614 | 833 | |
| 14.63 | 7.53 | 8.56 | 12.30 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 37.5% | 20.5% | 21.9% | 27.3% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 67,638 | 70,758 | 73,045 | 75,348 |
| Cash | 6,084 | 7,419 | 6,801 | 5,029 |
| Total debt | 1,414 | 1,140 | 1,248 | 1,542 |
| Total liabilities | 63,544 | 65,611 | 67,432 | 69,099 |
| 4,093 | 5,147 | 5,613 | 6,249 | |
| 75 | 72 | 72 | 68 | |
| 22.0% | 22.5% | 25.2% | 22.8% | |
| 26.9% | 10.5% | 10.9% | 13.3% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,015 | 687 | 675 | 878 | |
| 104 | 208 | 213 | 197 | |
| 911 | 479 | 461 | 681 | |
| Dividends paid | 162 | 160 | 180 | 198 |
| 632 | 0 | 214 | 505 | |
| 17 | 17 | 20 | 27 |
This is a bank or insurer, so cash-flow and debt ratios are left out: borrowing and lending is the business itself. Price to book and return on equity are the measures that matter here.
Valuation
- 11.9×
- 10.6×
- –
- 1.6×
- 3.2×
- 8.4%
- 2.0%
Profitability
- 27.3%
- 10.6%
- 12.0%
- 14.6%
- 1.2%
Growth
- +1.2%
- −5.6%
- +12.6%
- −3.5%
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 23%of 827
Top 43%of 709
Top 37%of 876
Bottom 23%of 879
Top 44%of 926
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $159.33
- Range
- $152.00 – $170.00
- 1 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2026 | 3.78 | 3.30 | +14.5% |
| Jan 27, 2026 | 3.38 | 3.02 | +11.9% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 3.14 | 2.95 | +6.4% |
| Jul 23, 2025 | 3.09 | 2.54 | +21.7% |
| Apr 23, 2025 | 2.56 | 2.16 | +18.5% |
| Jan 28, 2025 | 2.51 | 2.05 | +22.4% |
| Oct 23, 2024 | 2.16 | 2.31 | −6.5% |
| Jul 24, 2024 | 2.46 | 2.12 | +16.0% |
2.0%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$20a year at today's yield, before tax
+12.6%2020 to 2025
Raised7 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.30 in 2015 → $2.90 in 2025
How safe it looks
23.7% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 29.0%
News
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Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
4/7Passes 4 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
60Pass
Benjamin Graham
68Pass
Philip Fisher
61Pass
Peter Lynch
31No pass
Joel Greenblatt
56No pass
Charlie Munger
64Pass
Terry Smith
49No pass
Questions about Popular
Is Popular a good stock to buy?
A strong, very profitable business, and the price looks low. 4 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Popular AI analysis
What does Popular do?
Popular, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various retail, mortgage, and commercial banking services for individuals and businesses in Puerto Rico, the United States, the British Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, and Latin America. It is in Banks - Regional, based in Hato Rey, PR, United States, with 9,191 employees.
Does Popular pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.0% a year, about 24% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $198 million in dividends.
Is Popular stock halal?
No. Popular does not pass our halal screen: its main business, banking, is not permitted. How we check
How has Popular stock done over the past year?
Up 36.0% over the past twelve months, to $158.50. It traded between $110.14 and $177.87 and is 10.9% below its high.
Who are Popular's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are China Merchants Bank, DBS Group Holdings, UniCredit and HDFC Bank. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Popular's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 12, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.