The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE: SAN)

Banco Santander S.A. ADR (NYSE:SAN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.92M but it saw 4606345 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 103.69B USD, the company’s current market price of $6.85 came rising about 1.03 while comparing to the previous closing price of $6.78. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $7.16 and as low as $4.27. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $6.74 while lowest mark touched by it was $6.87.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Banco Santander S.A. ADR (SAN) gives us an average price of $6.79, while its current price level is -4.33% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 60.42% 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 $6.16 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $5.13. 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 1.78%. 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 57.98 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, SAN’s stock price is moving -0.87% down while it is 7.54% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 50.22% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 42.71%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-04, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.2 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.78. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $15.72B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $62.1B and seeing the company making $63.66B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $15.44B 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 2.59% 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 8.22 while having a 6.94 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.99. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.02 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.71. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.70% on average.