Ana Patricia Botín, executive chairman of Banco Santander SA, presented financial targets to investors “in an attempt to reverse [its] share price underperformance,”
the
Financial Times
reported.
Ana Patricia Botín, executive chairman of Banco Santander SA, presented financial targets to investors “in an attempt to reverse [its] share price underperformance,”
the
Financial Times
reported.
Botín told investors she planned to cut costs, increase earnings and strengthen capital, the
FT
article said. However, the targets she presented fell short of “ambitious objectives sought by some investors and analysts,”
a
Wall Street Journal
report noted.
In January, Santander sold €7.5 billion worth of shares to address investors' concerns. While the sale “helped to momentarily assuage long-standing concerns that Ms Botín's predecessor as executive chairman, her late father, Emilio Botín, had failed to sufficiently bolster the bank's balance sheet,” analysts and investors are now concerned about the effect of “mounting regulatory requirements,” the
Journal
article said. (Sources:
Financial Times
, Sept. 24, 2015;
Wall Street Journal
, Sept. 24, 2015.)
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