Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN)?

Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.19M but it saw 7506465 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 87.34B USD, the company’s current market price of $5.77 came rising about 2.67 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.62. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $5.64 and as low as $3.87. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.64 while lowest mark touched by it was $5.82.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) gives us an average price of $5.02, while its current price level is 2.30% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 49.10% 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 $4.86. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.47% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.61%. 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 76.88 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

Over the week, SAN’s stock price is moving 10.96% up while it is 24.62% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 26.54% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 46.45%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in March, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.76. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $15.48B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $61.89B and seeing the company making $63.25B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $15.04B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 15.14B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 2.64% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.26% and return on equity (ROE) at 13.16%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 6.79 while having a 6.37 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.13. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.86 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.60. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.70% on average.