Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE: SAN): Retirees Don’t Worry About Volatility

Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.03M but it saw 3270195 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 73.91B USD, the company’s current market price of $4.76 came falling about -2.26 while comparing to the previous closing price of $4.87. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $5.05 and as low as $3.20.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) gives us an average price of $4.73, while its current price level is -5.74% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 48.75% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $4.35 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $3.99. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.71% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.34%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 58.13 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, SAN’s stock price is moving -3.64% down while it is 8.18% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 14.98% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 27.61%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 12/30/2023, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of $0.18 beaten by the consensus estimate of $0.19 for the same. For SAN, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of 8.50% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is 3.90%.

Currently, Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 15.89B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 2.42% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.77% and return on equity (ROE) at 12.04%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 6.65 while having a 5.91 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.20. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.72 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.54. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.62% on average.