Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE: SAN) – Time For Strategy Change?

Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.97M but it saw 1185573 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 68.23B USD, the company’s current market price of $4.49 came falling about -0.22 while comparing to the previous closing price of $4.50. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $5.27 and as low as $3.83. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $4.48 while lowest mark touched by it was $4.5099.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) gives us an average price of $4.70, while its current price level is -14.80% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 17.23% 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 $4.80 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $4.84. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.88% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.41%. 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 33.97 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, SAN’s stock price is moving -3.85% down while it is -1.32% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 8.45% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 7.93%.

Currently, Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 15.20B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.22% and return on equity (ROE) at 12.89%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 5.60 while having a 5.31 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.12. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.64 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.47. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.67% on average.