--- title: "Banco Santander (LON:BNC) Stock Price Passes Above 50 Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/285347671.md" description: "Banco Santander's stock price has surpassed its 50-day moving average of GBX 874.40, trading as high as GBX 910 before closing at GBX 868.50. The company has a market capitalization of £132.96 billion and a PE ratio of 8.77. Insider Ana Patricia Botin purchased 100,000 shares at GBX 848 each. Despite the stock's performance, analysts currently rate Banco Santander as a Hold, suggesting that there may be better investment opportunities available." datetime: "2026-05-06T09:35:27.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/285347671.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285347671.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/285347671.md) --- # Banco Santander (LON:BNC) Stock Price Passes Above 50 Day Moving Average - Time to Sell? Banco Santander, S.A. (LON:BNC - Get Free Report)'s stock price passed above its 50-day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a 50-day moving average of GBX 874.40 and traded as high as GBX 910. Banco Santander shares last traded at GBX 868.50, with a volume of 293,848 shares changing hands. Get **Banco Santander** alerts: ## Banco Santander Price Performance The company has a market capitalization of £132.96 billion, a PE ratio of 8.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 0.96. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 874.40 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 858.05. ## Insider Activity In other Banco Santander news, insider Ana Patricia Botin bought 100,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 5th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 848 per share, with a total value of £848,000. Insiders own 3.08% of the company's stock. ## About Banco Santander (Get Free Report) Banco Santander, SA provides various financial services worldwide. The company operates through Retail Banking, Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth Management & Insurance, and PagoNxt segments. It offers demand and time deposits, mutual funds, and current and savings accounts; mortgages, consumer finance, loans, and various financing solutions; and project finance, debt capital markets, global transaction banking, and corporate finance services. The company also provides asset management and private banking services; and insurance products. ## Featured Articles - Five stocks we like better than Banco Santander _This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to contact@marketbeat.com._ ## Should You Invest $1,000 in Banco Santander Right Now? Before you consider Banco Santander, you'll want to hear this. MarketBeat keeps track of Wall Street's top-rated and best performing research analysts and the stocks they recommend to their clients on a daily basis. MarketBeat has identified the five stocks that top analysts are quietly whispering to their clients to buy now before the broader market catches on... and Banco Santander wasn't on the list. While Banco Santander currently has a Hold rating among analysts, top-rated analysts believe these five stocks are better buys. View The Five Stocks Here ### Related Stocks - [BNC.UK](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/BNC.UK.md) - [SAN.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SAN.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [Santander US Survey Finds Resilient Consumers in Need of Vehicles, Used-Car Demand Persists | SAN Stock News](https://longbridge.com/en/news/286291166.md) - [Banco Santander to acquire Webster in two-step transaction valued at $75.00 per share](https://longbridge.com/en/news/286822227.md) - [DZ BANK AG Sticks to Its Hold Rating for Banco Santander (BNC)](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285304707.md) - [‘Chicken wine’ ad banned for implying alcohol is therapeutic](https://longbridge.com/en/news/287029011.md) - [Santander to invest $67 mln in Ebury via Centerbridge-led funding rounds](https://longbridge.com/en/news/284734238.md)