Banco Santander SA vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Banco Santander SA trades at $13.74 (market cap $191.46B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $115.82. The key difference: Banco Santander SA pays a 2.09% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none, and Banco Santander SA is trading nearer its 52-week high, Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SAN | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $191.46B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $14.37 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $8.40 | $83.59 |
Dividend Yield | 2.09% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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Santander's focus is on retail and commercial banking. Latin America is geographically the largest operation, with Brazil by far the largest. Its continental European business is still mainly Iberian. Santander's U.K. presence is the result of the acquisition of building society Abbey. In the U.S., Santander operates a vehicle finance business and a regional bank focused on the Northeastern states.
Read more on SAN →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Information Technology 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the information technology sector, as classified under the GICS. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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