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 twelve months. 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 predict the company's stock price to reach $19.97 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.6% 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 stock has decreased by 8.2% and is now trading at $17.89.
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Banco Santander-Chile saw a decline in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 458,600 shares, a decline of 24.6% from the March 15th total of 608,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 283,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.6 days. Currently, 0.1% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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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) announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 2nd. The bank reported $0.43 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.42 by $0.01. The bank earned $621.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $609.98 million. Banco Santander-Chile had a net margin of 9.99% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.73%.

Banco Santander-Chile (NYSE:BSAC) pays an annual dividend of $0.95 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.05%. 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 42.79% 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Cardinal Capital Management (0.02%) and Atlas Capital Advisors LLC (0.00%).

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