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Banco Santander

8.58 USD
-0.30
3.38%
At close Jul 10, 4:00 PM EDT
Pre-market
8.56
-0.02
0.23%
1 day
-3.38%
5 days
1.18%
1 month
8.33%
3 months
37.72%
6 months
85.71%
Year to date
92.38%
1 year
77.27%
5 years
256.02%
10 years
25.26%
 

About: Santander's focus is on retail and commercial banking. Latin America is geographically the most significant operation, with Brazil making the largest contribution. Its continental European business is mainly in Spain and Portugal. Santander's UK presence is the result of its acquisition of Abbey building society. In the US, Santander operates a vehicle finance business and a regional bank focused on the Northeastern states.

Employees: 206,736

0
Funds holding %
of 7,312 funds
Analysts bullish %

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

168% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $16.2M | Put options by funds: $6.05M

50% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q4 2024] → 3 (+1) [Q1 2025]

50% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 171 | Existing positions reduced: 114

48% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $1.79B [Q4 2024] → $2.65B (+$859M) [Q1 2025]

38% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 65 | Existing positions closed: 47

2% more funds holding

Funds holding: 404 [Q4 2024] → 414 (+10) [Q1 2025]

0.12% more ownership

Funds ownership: 2.5% [Q4 2024] → 2.62% (+0.12%) [Q1 2025]

Research analyst outlook

We haven’t received any recent analyst ratings for SAN.

Financial journalist opinion

Based on 19 articles about SAN published over the past 30 days

Neutral
Business Wire
2 days ago
Santander Consumer Launches Drive Together, Offering Dealers Pre-Qualified Leads from Web Traffic
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Santander Consumer USA Inc. (“Santander Consumer”) has launched Drive Together, a digital retail tool and expansion of Santander's Drive® offering that provides pre-qualification resources to support a broad range of customer and dealer needs. Drive Together is a subscription service for dealers that resides on car dealerships' websites, allowing dealers to generate pre-qualified leads from their web traffic. Santander's Drive® platform uses "soft" credit checks to preq.
Santander Consumer Launches Drive Together, Offering Dealers Pre-Qualified Leads from Web Traffic
Positive
Seeking Alpha
4 days ago
Banco Santander: When Global Banking Becomes A Smart Bet
Banco Santander's unique 'glocal' model and strong presence in both Europe and Latin America drive its leadership in credit, deposits, and efficiency. Q1 2025 results show robust profit growth (+19.3% YoY), improved asset quality, and solid capital and liquidity positions, despite margin pressures. The stock trades at a notable discount to peers (P/E FWD 9.67x, PEG 1.02x), while delivering double-digit dividend growth and strong long-term profitability.
Banco Santander: When Global Banking Becomes A Smart Bet
Positive
Reuters
1 week ago
Santander's bet on Britain with TSB deal shows banks' need for scale
Santander's plan to buy TSB for 2.65 billion pounds ($3.61 billion) and boost its position in the UK came together just a few weeks ago, after the Spanish bank had been weighing a possible exit from Britain, three sources close to the process said.
Santander's bet on Britain with TSB deal shows banks' need for scale
Neutral
Bloomberg Markets and Finance
1 week ago
Santander CFO: 'Not all' savings from job cuts and closures in TSB deal
Santander CFO Jose Garcia Cantera says "most" of the savings from buying TSB will come from winding up projects TSB is running, and "not all" of the targeted savings will come from job cuts or branch closures https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-01/santander-agrees-to-buy-sabadell-s-uk-unit-tsb-for-2-7-billion?sref=BPgrU5ep
Santander CFO: 'Not all' savings from job cuts and closures in TSB deal
Positive
CNBC International TV
1 week ago
UK has always been a key market for Santander, says CFO
José García Cantera, the CFO of Santander, discusses the bank's acquisition of U.K. lender TSB.
UK has always been a key market for Santander, says CFO
Positive
Bloomberg Markets and Finance
1 week ago
Santander CFO on Buying TSB, Banking Consolidation, BBVA's Bid for Sabadell
Santander CFO Jose Garcia Cantera discusses the lender's decision to agree to buy Sabadell's UK unit TSB. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Cantera says "most" of the savings from buying TSB will come from projects that TSB is currently running "that we will not need to do when the two banks merge," and "not all" of the targeted savings will come from job cuts or branch closures.
Santander CFO on Buying TSB, Banking Consolidation, BBVA's Bid for Sabadell
Neutral
Proactive Investors
1 week ago
Santander to buy TSB for £2.65bn in shake-up of UK high street banking
Santander has agreed to acquire TSB for £2.65 billion, a move that could reshape the UK's high street banking landscape amid fears of job cuts and the disappearance of an historic name from the high street. The deal, subject to shareholder approval by current owner Sabadell, may close by early 2026.
Santander to buy TSB for £2.65bn in shake-up of UK high street banking
Positive
Bloomberg Markets and Finance
1 week ago
Banking: Santander Agrees to Buy Sabadell's UK Unit TSB
Banco Santander SA agreed to buy Banco Sabadell SA's UK unit for £2.65 billion ($3.64 billion) in an all-cash transaction. The enlarged firm would be the third-largest UK bank by personal current account balances and the fourth-largest by mortgage value, Santander said.
Banking: Santander Agrees to Buy Sabadell's UK Unit TSB
Neutral
Business Wire
1 week ago
Santander Holdings USA, Inc. Announces 2025 Stress Capital Buffer
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) informed Santander Holdings USA, Inc. (“SHUSA”) on June 27, 2025, of SHUSA's updated stress capital buffer (“SCB”) requirement, which becomes effective on October 1, 2025. SHUSA's updated SCB will be 3.4% of its common equity Tier 1 capital (“CET1”), resulting in an overall CET1 capital requirement of 7.9%. SHUSA's strong capitalization supports our planned capital actions, and the updated SCB.
Santander Holdings USA, Inc. Announces 2025 Stress Capital Buffer
Positive
Barrons
1 week ago
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