With 15.14B Outstanding Shares, Can Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE: SAN) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.61M but it saw 4840151 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 97.33B USD, the company’s current market price of $6.43 came rising about 1.74 while comparing to the previous closing price of $6.32. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $6.39 and as low as $4.07.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) gives us an average price of $5.74, while its current price level is 0.63% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 57.99% 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 $5.13 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $4.93. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.70% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.77%. 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 78.69 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

Over the week, SAN’s stock price is moving 7.53% up while it is 25.10% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 41.01% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 56.83%.

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 0.66. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $15.55B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $61.94B and seeing the company making $63.59B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $15.1B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Banco Santander S.A. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 15.14B with 0.01% of that held by the insiders while 2.63% 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 7.72 while having a 6.80 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.10. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.95 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.77. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.70% on average.