In today’s recent session, 2.05 million shares of the Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) have been traded, and its beta is 1.13. Most recently the company’s share price was $5.94, and it changed around $0.11 or 1.89% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $89.92B. SAN at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $5.83, offering almost 1.85% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $3.87, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 34.85% since then. We note from Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 4.35 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.28 million.
Banco Santander S.A. ADR stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 1.84. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 3 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended SAN as a Hold, whereas 0 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Banco Santander S.A. ADR is expected to report earnings per share of 0 for the current quarter.
Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) trade information
Instantly SAN has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 1.89% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The company’s shares are currently up 30.26% year-to-date, but still up 5.69% over the last five days. On the other hand, Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) is 27.74% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 6.29 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.88 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $3, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -98.0% from its current value. Analyst projections state that SAN is forecast to be at a low of $3 and a high of $3.
Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -0.22%, down from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 2 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 15.04B in revenue for the current quarter. 2 analysts expect Banco Santander S.A. ADR to make 15.48B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 15.04B and 15.67B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -0.02%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -1.18%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 18.26%. Banco Santander S.A. ADR earnings are expected to increase by 5.45% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 8.41% per year for the next five years.
SAN Dividends
Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in March. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 3.54 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.21. It is important to note, however, that the 3.54% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 5.29 per year.
Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.00% of Banco Santander S.A. ADR shares, and 2.64% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 2.64%. Banco Santander S.A. ADR stock is held by 456.0 institutions, with FISHER ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 0.9117% of the shares, which is about 141.57 million shares worth $655.49 million.
MONDRIAN INVESTMENT PARTNERS LTD, with 0.2892% or 44.91 million shares worth $217.82 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF and iShares MSCI Eafe ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Nov 30, 2024. The former held 98.13 shares worth $583.9 million, making up 0.65% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares MSCI Eafe ETF held roughly 51.13 shares worth around $304.22 million, which represents about 0.34% of the total shares outstanding.
