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Company snapshot — Popular Inc

BPOP in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Popular Inc runs retail, mortgage and commercial banking through its subsidiaries, mainly for customers in Puerto Rico with some operations across the US, the British Virgin Islands, the Caribbean and Latin America. It takes deposits and offers savings, checking and retirement accounts, and lends across commercial, residential mortgage, construction and consumer categories, including auto and equipment leasing. It also sells insurance, runs a broker-dealer and private banking arm, and provides cards, wire transfers and online banking. The company was founded in the nineteenth century and is headquartered in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
Where it sits in the stack
Popular does not sit inside the AI build-out stack; the diary places it in the regional banking sleeve of the wider Russell 1000 universe it tracks alongside the index seats.
Who it is priced against
The diary's coverage does not assign Popular a peer group with a stated reason, but the market compares it with other Puerto Rico-focused banks such as OFG Bancorp.
Why Closelook tracks it
Popular is a Russell 1000 constituent but carries no Rubin or Halo seat and no Closelook score, so it sits outside the diary's scored coverage and has not drawn a quote in the editions.
What the diary watches
Whether conditions in the Puerto Rico economy and interest-rate moves feed through to loan demand and deposit costs at a bank concentrated in that market.

Popular Inc (BPOP) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for BPOP, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Banks - Regional · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Banks - Regional · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against BPOP on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.94%, quarterly · last 0.90 USD on 2026-09-10

Dividends and capital return

What BPOP pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.15 USD per share · a 1.94% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +10.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.85 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.90 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-10
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.62 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.56 USD · 2025: 2.90 USD · 2026: 2.40 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-06

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Popular Inc (BPOP)?

Popular Inc trades as BPOP on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is BPOP in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Popular Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does BPOP trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -5.1% vs the 50-day and +9.9% vs the 200-day average, 9.6% below the 52-week high and +51.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Popular Inc do?

Popular Inc runs retail, mortgage and commercial banking through its subsidiaries, mainly for customers in Puerto Rico with some operations across the US, the British Virgin Islands, the Caribbean and Latin America. It takes deposits and offers savings, checking and retirement accounts, and lends across commercial, residential mortgage, construction and consumer categories, including auto and equipment leasing. It also sells insurance, runs a broker-dealer and private banking arm, and provides cards, wire transfers and online banking. The diary's coverage does not assign Popular a peer group with a stated reason, but the market compares it with other Puerto Rico-focused banks such as OFG Bancorp.

Where does Popular Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Popular does not sit inside the AI build-out stack; the diary places it in the regional banking sleeve of the wider Russell 1000 universe it tracks alongside the index seats. Popular is a Russell 1000 constituent but carries no Rubin or Halo seat and no Closelook score, so it sits outside the diary's scored coverage and has not drawn a quote in the editions.

Does Popular Inc pay a dividend?

Popular Inc has paid 3.15 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.94% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.90 USD on 2026-09-10. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BPOP, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Banks - Regional. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.