Banco Santander SA vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Banco Santander SA trades at $13.66 (market cap $191.46B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $369.53. The key difference: Banco Santander SA pays a 2.09% dividend while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SAN | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $191.46B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $14.37 | $374.36 |
52-Week Low | $8.40 | $305.74 |
Dividend Yield | 2.09% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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