In the latest trading session, 1.67 million Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.78. With the company’s most recent per share price at $7.09 changed hands at -$0.05 or -0.70% at last look, the market valuation stands at $107.32B. SAN’s current price is a discount, trading about -0.99% off its 52-week high of $7.16. The share price had its 52-week low at $4.27, which suggests the last value was 39.77% up since then. When we look at Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 7.64 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.78 million.
Analysts gave the Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.68. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended SAN as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.2.
Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) trade information
Instantly SAN was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action 9.08%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 55.48%, with the 5-day performance at 9.08% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) is 16.23% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.87 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.22 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 3, meaning bulls need a downside of -136.33% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, SAN’s forecast low is 3 with 3 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 57.69% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 57.69% for it to hit the projected low.
Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 0.39% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 2 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 15.44B. 2 analysts are of the opinion that Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s revenue for the current quarter will be 15.72B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 15.04B and 15.67B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 2.64%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 0.34%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 16.52%. The 2025 estimates are for Banco Santander S.A. ADR earnings to increase by 8.52%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 10.46% per year.
SAN Dividends
Banco Santander S.A. ADR is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-04. The 2.96% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.21. It is important to note, however, that the 2.96% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 5.29 per year.
Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.00% of Banco Santander S.A. ADR shares while 2.63% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 2.63%. There are 2.63% institutions holding the Banco Santander S.A. ADR stock share, with FISHER ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 0.9316% of the shares, roughly 141.57 million SAN shares worth $655.49 million.
MONDRIAN INVESTMENT PARTNERS LTD holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 0.2955% or 44.91 million shares worth $217.82 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jan 31, 2025 were iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF and iShares MSCI Eafe ETF. With 98.13 shares estimated at $695.28 million under it, the former controlled 0.65% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares MSCI Eafe ETF held about 0.34% of the shares, roughly 51.08 shares worth around $361.93 million.
