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Spain's Santander raises interim cash dividend by 15%
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Santander has increased its interim cash dividend by 15% for 2025, with a total shareholder return of about 3.4 billion euros, including cash dividends and share buybacks.
MADRID (Reuters) -Santander's board has approved an interim cash dividend of 0.115 euros per share against its 2025 results, up 15% from a year earlier, the Spanish bank said on Tuesday.
The dividend is equivalent to about 25% of underlying group profit in the first half of 2025 for the euro zone's biggest lender by market value.
The total returned to shareholders through the 2025 interim remuneration will be about 3.4 billion euros, equivalent to about 50% of Santander's first-half attributable profit, split roughly evenly between cash dividend and share buybacks.
The final distribution from 2025 earnings is expected to be decided and announced in the first quarter of 2026.
(Reporting by Jesús AguadoEditing by David Goodman)
A dividend is a portion of a company's earnings distributed to shareholders, typically in cash or additional shares, as a reward for their investment.
Share buybacks occur when a company purchases its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of outstanding shares and often increasing the value of remaining shares.
Corporate profit refers to the financial gain a company makes after subtracting all expenses, taxes, and costs from its total revenue.
Equity represents ownership in a company, typically in the form of stocks, and signifies the residual value of assets after liabilities are deducted.
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