This Spanish banking stock has soared 160% in 2025

• Santander (SAN) has strong technical momentum and is trading at new 10-year highs.

• SAN is up over 160% in the last 52 weeks.

• The stock maintains a 100% technical “Buy” opinion on Barchart.

• SAN is a Spanish financial institution that offers access to American investors.

Author’s note: It is a Spanish bank that trades as American Depositary Receipt (ADR) on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol SAN.

Valued at $175 billion, Banco Santander (SAN) is the largest bank in Spain and also the largest international bank in Latin America. The bank provides services for individuals and businesses including leasing, factoring, stock brokerage and mutual fund services.

I found today’s Chart of the Day using Barchart’s powerful selection features to select stocks with the highest technical Buy signals; current momentum superior in both strength and direction; and a “buy” signal from Trend Seeker. I then used Barchart’s Flipcharts feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation. SAN checks those boxes. Since Trend Seeker signaled a new “buy” on November 26, the stock has gained 10.86%.

Editor’s note: The technical indicators below are updated live during the session every 20 minutes and can therefore change each day as the market fluctuates. Therefore, the indicator numbers shown below may not match what you see live on the Barchart.com website when you read this report. These technical indicators form Barchart’s opinion on a particular stock.

Banco Santander hit a new 10-year high of $11.86 on December 24.

• SAN has a weighted Alpha of +149.88.

• Banco Santander has a 100% “Buy” opinion on Barchart.

• ADR gained 159.54% over the past year.

• SAN has its Trend Seeker “Buy” signal intact.

• The ADR recently traded at $11.86 with a 50-day moving average of $10.63.

• SAN hit 18 new highs and gained 16.68% in the past month.

• The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is at 73.71.

• There is a technical support level around $11.73.

• Market cap of $175 billion.

• Price-earnings ratio of 13.32x.

• Dividend yield of 2.23%.

• Revenue is expected to decline 0.10% this year and another 0.61% next year.

• Earnings are estimated to increase by 23.84% this year and an additional 8.75% next year.

Wall Street analysts like this ADR and so do individual investors.

• Wall Street analysts tracked by Barchart have given 8 “Strong Buy”, 1 “Moderate Buy” and 6 “Hold” opinions on the ADR.

• Value Line does not qualify ADR.

• CFRA’s MarketScope Advisor does not rate ADRs.

• Morningstar believes that with the stock’s recent rise, it is 36% overvalued.

• 3,042 investors following the Motley Fool stock believe it will outperform the market, while 397 think it will not.

• 43,070 investors are monitoring the stock on Searching Alpha, which rates the stock a “Hold.”

Wall Street analysts and individual investors agree on this foreign bank ADR. If you want to diversify your portfolio with some foreign stocks, this bank is a good place to do it.

Additional Disclosure: The bar chart of the day highlights stocks that are experiencing exceptional appreciation from current prices. They are not intended to be purchase recommendations, as these stocks are extremely volatile and speculative. If you decide to add one of these stocks to your investment portfolio, we strongly recommend that you follow a default diversification and trailing stop loss discipline that is consistent with your personal investment risk tolerance.

On the date of publication, Jim Van Meerten had no (directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article are for informational purposes only. This article was originally published on Barchart.com