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Johann Scholtz
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Santander Reports Solid 2017 Results

Narrow-moat Santander reported solid 2017 results with attributable profits growing by 7% compared with 2016. This is stronger than our expectations, with credit losses lower than we anticipated. We will be updating our model to account for the better-than-expected performance, which may lead to a modest increase in our fair value estimate. Nonetheless, we expect shares to remain fairly valued at current levels. 
The undisputed star performer was the firm's Latin American operations (47%), with ...
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Banco Santander S.A.

Banco Santander is a holding company, providing a range of financial products. Co.'s products and services include: retail banking business that covers all customer banking businesses; wholesale banking business; as well as asset management and insurance business. Co.'s principal operations are in Spain, the U.K., Portugal, Germany, Italy and Latin America. As of Dec 31 2014, Co.'s total assets amounted to Euro1,266,296,000,000 and total customer deposits amounted to Euro647,627,000,000.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Johann Scholtz

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