Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Banco Santander-Chile in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" BSAC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BSAC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Banco Santander-Chile's shares. Their BSAC share price targets range from $18.90 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $19.97 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.0% from the stock's current price.
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Banco Santander-Chile's stock was trading at $19.49 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, BSAC shares have decreased by 6.1% and is now trading at $18.31.
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Banco Santander-Chile saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 543,100 shares, a decline of 20.4% from the December 15th total of 682,100 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 391,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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Banco Santander-Chile (NYSE:BSAC) released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, October, 29th. The bank reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.04. The bank earned $654.33 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $689.70 million. Banco Santander-Chile had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.36% and a net margin of 9.99%. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.28 EPS.

Banco Santander-Chile announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, April 18th. Investors of record on Friday, January 1st will be paid a dividend of $1.2511 per share on Wednesday, April 19th. This represents a dividend yield of 4.9%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 19th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous annual dividend of $0.91.
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Banco Santander-Chile (NYSE:BSAC) pays an annual dividend of $0.95 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.19%. BSAC has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 74.80%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BSAC will have a dividend payout ratio of 41.67% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Banco Santander-Chile (NYSE:BSAC) stock in their portfolio include ALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (EDOG).iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Banco Santander-Chile investors own include Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Intel (INTC), Alcoa (AA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Citigroup (C), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Enbridge (ENB) and Morgan Stanley (MS).

Banco Santander-Chile's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Franklin Resources Inc. (0.66%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.60%), INCA Investments LLC (0.45%), abrdn plc (0.16%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.11%) and AGF Management Ltd. (0.09%).

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