Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN): Investing In A Time Of Crisis

Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.01M but it saw 10546755 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 100.51B USD, the company’s current market price of $6.64 came rising about 4.24 while comparing to the previous closing price of $6.37. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $6.60 and as low as $4.12.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) gives us an average price of $6.08, while its current price level is 0.61% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 61.17% 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 $5.30 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $4.96. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.46% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.91%. 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 76.52 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

Over the week, SAN’s stock price is moving 3.27% up while it is 34.14% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 45.61% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 60.00%.

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 3.50% and return on equity (ROE) at 13.16%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 7.97 while having a 7.00 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.85. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.98 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.69. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.70% on average.