Banco Santander is engaged in all kinds of activities, operations and services inherent to the banking business in general and permitted by existing legislation, and the acquisition, holding, enjoyment and disposal of all kinds of securities. Co.'s operating areas include: Europe, North America, and South America. Co.'s secondary segments include: Retail Banking, which covers all customer banking businesses; Wealth Management and Insurance, which includes the asset management business; and Santander Global Platform, which is comprised of its global digital services under a single business unit, as well as 50% of the results generated by these services in the commercial network. The SAN YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the SAN YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether SAN YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the SAN YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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