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$8.51 +0.05 (+0.53%)
Closing price 07/3/2025 03:48 PM Eastern
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SAN vs. BAC, HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, TD, IBN, UBS, and SMFG

Should you be buying Banco Santander stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco Santander include Bank of America (BAC), HSBC (HSBC), HDFC Bank (HDB), Royal Bank Of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), ICICI Bank (IBN), UBS Group (UBS), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Banco Santander vs. Its Competitors

Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.

In the previous week, Bank of America had 70 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 88 mentions for Bank of America and 18 mentions for Banco Santander. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.18 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Banco Santander
4 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Bank of America
57 Very Positive mention(s)
14 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Bank of America has a consensus target price of $48.28, indicating a potential downside of 1.34%. Given Bank of America's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bank of America is more favorable than Banco Santander.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Banco Santander
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Bank of America
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81

Banco Santander has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of America has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Bank of America has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Santander. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Banco Santander$66.96B1.92$13.61B$0.879.78
Bank of America$103.44B3.56$27.13B$3.3614.57

9.2% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Bank of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Banco Santander shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Bank of America shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Banco Santander pays out 20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of America pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Bank of America has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Bank of America is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Banco Santander has a net margin of 16.92% compared to Bank of America's net margin of 14.56%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.26% beat Bank of America's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Banco Santander16.92% 12.26% 0.72%
Bank of America 14.56%10.25%0.84%

Summary

Bank of America beats Banco Santander on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SAN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SAN vs. The Competition

MetricBanco SantanderBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$129.55B$66.90B$12.12B$20.71B
Dividend Yield2.12%3.74%5.54%3.71%
P/E Ratio9.788.9520.0528.08
Price / Sales1.921.9126.0438.37
Price / Cash7.889.5121.7022.53
Price / Book1.161.362.284.58
Net Income$13.61B$6.85B$1.00B$985.54M
7 Day Performance3.15%1.12%2.25%2.79%
1 Month Performance5.78%3.32%3.69%4.37%
1 Year Performance77.93%41.21%541.99%15.08%

Banco Santander Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SAN
Banco Santander
4.2232 of 5 stars
$8.51
+0.5%
N/A+78.1%$129.55B$66.96B9.78199,958
BAC
Bank of America
4.931 of 5 stars
$47.31
+0.4%
$47.65
+0.7%
+21.1%$356.33B$103.44B14.08213,000Trending News
HSBC
HSBC
2.4429 of 5 stars
$60.79
0.0%
$63.00
+3.6%
+39.9%$213.73B$141.75B11.15211,304
HDB
HDFC Bank
1.4992 of 5 stars
$76.70
-0.4%
N/A+23.0%$194.23B$55.70B23.24213,527Trending News
RY
Royal Bank Of Canada
4.8199 of 5 stars
$131.66
+1.5%
$193.00
+46.6%
+21.5%$185.72B$98.71B14.6394,838Trending News
MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
4.0673 of 5 stars
$13.72
-1.2%
N/A+22.2%$165.57B$6.84T13.07140,000Positive News
C
Citigroup
4.9555 of 5 stars
$85.14
+0.9%
$84.03
-1.3%
+38.5%$159.02B$170.76B13.45239,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
TD
Toronto Dominion Bank
3.513 of 5 stars
$73.49
+1.2%
$93.00
+26.5%
+35.5%$126.44B$88.27B10.78102,190Positive News
IBN
ICICI Bank
2.5936 of 5 stars
$33.65
-0.6%
N/A+15.5%$120.04B$22.68B21.57187,765Stock Split
UBS
UBS Group
3.5412 of 5 stars
$33.84
+1.2%
N/A+14.6%$108.51B$84.56B22.41108,648Trending News
SMFG
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
4.16 of 5 stars
$15.11
-0.6%
N/A+10.9%$97.82B$66.82B16.60101,000Positive News

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