The recent AGM approved a final cash dividend against 2022 of 5.95 euro cents per share, payable from 2 May 2023, meaning the total cash dividend charged against 2022 is up 18% versus the previous year at 11.78 euro cents. The board has approved a new remuneration policy, increasing payout from 40% to 50% of attributable profit in 2023. While loan-loss provisions were up year-on-year, mainly due to the normalization…

Today Banco Santander’s executive chair, Ana Botín, pointed to the strength of Latin America (where the bank first expanded internationally 75 years ago) and said that the region is well placed to weather the crisis. Banco Santander opened a representative office in Havana in 1947, and then in Argentina and Mexico. It has invested more than €35 billion in the region, primarily since the 1990s. Today, Santander has €415 billion…

Earnings per share increased by 31% year-on-year, supported by strong profitability (RoTE of 13.6%). TNAV plus cash dividend per share increased by 11% while capital remains above 12% In the third quarter alone, attributable profit was €2,422, up 11% year-on-year (+2% in constant euros). The group has seen strong growth in customer activity in the first nine months of 2022, with loans and deposits growing by 7% and 6% respectively…

Banco Santander achieved an underlying profit of €4,894 million in the first half of 2022, up 16% in current euros versus the first half of 2021. Attributable profit, which was impacted by restructuring charges of €530 million in the same period of 2021, was up 33% in current euros. In the second quarter alone, attributable profit was €2,351 million, up 14% in current euros and 2% in constant euros. Underlying…

Norges Bank, the Norwegian bank in charge of managing the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has revealed a 3.006% stake in Banco Santander, a percentage it controls directly. This is according to the notification it sent Thursday to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). Norges Bank’s stake in Santander consists of direct control of 513.4 million shares which, at Thursday’s closing price of EUR 2.69 per share, implies a total value…

Fernando González Urbaneja | Santander presented its first quarter results this week. Good in general terms. More business, better margins, growth and the best results without extraordinary items or gimmicks. However, the stock market’s immediate reaction was quite bad, with no explanation beyond a feeling of future problems. And so much because of the bank’s management as because of the general business environment. The feeling, even perception, of a recovery…

Banco Santander obtained an attributable profit of 2.543 billion euros in the first quarter of this year, 58% more than a year earlier, when the bank took a 530 million charge for restructuring costs. Ordinary profit, which excludes that impact, rose 19%, the bank told the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) on Tuesday.Santander is confident it will achieve the 2022 targets it announced in February: revenue growth of around…

Norbolsa | The bank has confirmed it expects it will be difficult to reach its objective of cutting 1 billion euros of costs in Europe in the period 2020-2022. Despite the measures put in place (restructuring of the network and workforce exits), the strong uptick in inflation will act as a drag on meeting this goal, with particular impact in Spain and Poland. In spite of this, however, Santander expects…