With 3.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 3.14 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $5.14 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $5.0912. The 52-week range on SAN shows that it touched its highest point at $5.27 and its lowest point at $3.83 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $5.94. With its current market cap of 76.35 billion, SAN has annualized dividend of $0.21 while the current yield stands at 4.09%. SAN paid its most recent dividend on 1730332800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730332800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.13.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of SAN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.11%, but this was up by 14.22% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.63% while six-month performance rose 4.68%. The stock gained 28.50% in the past year, while it has gained 12.72% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SAN yields 0.80 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.83. For the next quarter, that number is 0.18. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.91% for this year and 4.62% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.97% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 6.87%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 15.20 billion SAN shares are outstanding with a float of 14.85 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 6.28 million, which was 4.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Ms. Ana Botin-Sanz de Sautuola y O’Shea as the firm’s Group Executive Chairwoman, Mr. Hector Blas Grisi Checa serves as its Group CEO & Group Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.02611 of SAN’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SAN since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With SAN analysts setting a high price target of 6.3 and a low target of 5.67, the average target price over the next 12 months is 5.985. Based on these targets, SAN could surge 22.57% to reach the target high and rise by 10.31% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.44% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.80702 being high and $0.76766 being low. For SAN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.79718. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
