# Banco Santander Brasil (SANB3.SA)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/SANB3.SA

Analysis as of: 2026-10-01T19:02:34.604Z. Financial observations: FY2016–FY2025.

Listing currency: BRL. Reporting currency: BRL.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed. Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: BRL 14.24 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low BRL 10.12 per share, central BRL 10.96 per share, high BRL 11.94 per share. Buy at or below the central value BRL 10.96 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-01T19:02:34.604Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 15.4% at the stated quote. About 15.4% a year at today's price (required return 18.2%). required return 18.2% a year (BR 10-year bond 14.2% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 10

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.22×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: BRL 7.3B

- FY2017: BRL 8.9B

- FY2018: BRL 13B

- FY2019: BRL 16B

- FY2020: BRL 13B

- FY2021: BRL 16B

- FY2022: BRL 14B

- FY2023: BRL 9.4B

- FY2024: BRL 13B

- FY2025: BRL 13B

### moat: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 16.8%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 13.6%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 13.6%

- FY2017: 15.8%

- FY2018: 20.6%

- FY2019: 24.8%

- FY2020: 17.9%

- FY2021: 21.0%

- FY2022: 18.2%

- FY2023: 11.5%

- FY2024: 15.4%

- FY2025: 13.9%

### economics: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 16.5%

- Book return interval: 9 years

- Starting book value per share: BRL 7.16

- Ending book value per share: BRL 12.31

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 15.4%

- FY2018: -31.4%

- FY2019: 107.7%

- FY2020: 29.1%

- FY2021: 12.2%

- FY2022: 16.8%

- FY2023: 11.5%

- FY2024: 12.2%

- FY2025: 13.4%

### management: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- book per share gain below retained common earnings per share

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: -0.1%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -0.1%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 0.79×

- Book value created per share: BRL 5.15

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: BRL 6.50

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 100

- FY2017: 100

- FY2018: 173

- FY2019: 100

- FY2020: 100

- FY2021: 99

- FY2022: 99

- FY2023: 99

- FY2024: 99

- FY2025: 99

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

Down 21% since Jan 2026 · net income -4.5%

Story as of 2026-10-03T17:10:00Z; price observation 2026-10-02.

The price assumes profits grow 8.8% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income -4.5%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471055/000129281426000592/bsbrform20f_2025.htm; observed 2026-02-27.

- FY2016: BRL 7.3B 

- FY2017: BRL 8.9B 

- FY2018: BRL 13B 

- FY2019: BRL 16B 

- FY2020: BRL 13B 

- FY2021: BRL 16B 

- FY2022: BRL 14B 

- FY2023: BRL 9.4B 

- FY2024: BRL 13B 

- FY2025: BRL 13B 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-02T06:52:09.009Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are BRL 46.7 billion.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471055/000129281426000592/bsbrform20f_2025.htm (filed 2026-02-27); FY2025: revenue 46680266000.

### Why customers stay

It earns 16.8% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-27); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.13620304528786173],[2017,0.15809167777646607],[2018,0.20632461489376694],[2019,0.2483836751768138],[2020,0.17888870181875496],[2021,0.21003580957888313],[2022,0.18181566325316462],[2023,0.11512672822808387],[2024,0.15422054200312357],[2025,0.138841918663895]]; median 0.16849018979761052. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-27); Dividend observations: [[2016,3210762000],[2017,5652081000],[2018,6076073000],[2019,6953718000],[2020,10280430000],[2021,9907319000],[2022,7393031000],[2023,5616498000],[2024,5618714000],[2025,6496351000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 90.1% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-02); SANB3.SA SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 90.08800000000001 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-02.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 8.6% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-27); Price 13.88; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 1.3322553364231984; discount 0.1816; growth 0.0856161861366572. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-01.

## Monthly share-price history (BRL per share)

- 2016-10: BRL 15.71 per share

- 2016-11: BRL 16.53 per share

- 2016-12: BRL 18.29 per share

- 2017-01: BRL 19.13 per share

- 2017-02: BRL 20.22 per share

- 2017-03: BRL 15.24 per share

- 2017-04: BRL 15.59 per share

- 2017-05: BRL 14.22 per share

- 2017-06: BRL 13.94 per share

- 2017-07: BRL 14.11 per share

- 2017-08: BRL 15.74 per share

- 2017-09: BRL 14.27 per share

- 2017-10: BRL 15.59 per share

- 2017-11: BRL 15.48 per share

- 2017-12: BRL 17.47 per share

- 2018-01: BRL 19.52 per share

- 2018-02: BRL 20.31 per share

- 2018-03: BRL 21.73 per share

- 2018-04: BRL 20.30 per share

- 2018-05: BRL 16.96 per share

- 2018-06: BRL 14.22 per share

- 2018-07: BRL 18.47 per share

- 2018-08: BRL 18.05 per share

- 2018-09: BRL 18.33 per share

- 2018-10: BRL 20.39 per share

- 2018-11: BRL 21.08 per share

- 2018-12: BRL 20.99 per share

- 2019-01: BRL 23.43 per share

- 2019-02: BRL 21.79 per share

- 2019-03: BRL 20.73 per share

- 2019-04: BRL 21.08 per share

- 2019-05: BRL 21.92 per share

- 2019-06: BRL 21.73 per share

- 2019-07: BRL 20.55 per share

- 2019-08: BRL 20.79 per share

- 2019-09: BRL 22.46 per share

- 2019-10: BRL 24.61 per share

- 2019-11: BRL 22.67 per share

- 2019-12: BRL 24.04 per share

- 2020-01: BRL 20.23 per share

- 2020-02: BRL 18.61 per share

- 2020-03: BRL 12.40 per share

- 2020-04: BRL 12.19 per share

- 2020-05: BRL 11.63 per share

- 2020-06: BRL 13.20 per share

- 2020-07: BRL 13.97 per share

- 2020-08: BRL 12.83 per share

- 2020-09: BRL 12.33 per share

- 2020-10: BRL 13.79 per share

- 2020-11: BRL 16.85 per share

- 2020-12: BRL 20.46 per share

- 2021-01: BRL 17.88 per share

- 2021-02: BRL 16.65 per share

- 2021-03: BRL 17.71 per share

- 2021-04: BRL 17.57 per share

- 2021-05: BRL 18.73 per share

- 2021-06: BRL 18.53 per share

- 2021-07: BRL 18.10 per share

- 2021-08: BRL 19.29 per share

- 2021-09: BRL 15.72 per share

- 2021-10: BRL 16.16 per share

- 2021-11: BRL 15.50 per share

- 2021-12: BRL 14.21 per share

- 2022-01: BRL 15.60 per share

- 2022-02: BRL 14.63 per share

- 2022-03: BRL 17.44 per share

- 2022-04: BRL 15.10 per share

- 2022-05: BRL 16.12 per share

- 2022-06: BRL 13.85 per share

- 2022-07: BRL 13.50 per share

- 2022-08: BRL 14.10 per share

- 2022-09: BRL 14.47 per share

- 2022-10: BRL 14.13 per share

- 2022-11: BRL 13.19 per share

- 2022-12: BRL 13.30 per share

- 2023-01: BRL 13.50 per share

- 2023-02: BRL 13.32 per share

- 2023-03: BRL 12.53 per share

- 2023-04: BRL 12.31 per share

- 2023-05: BRL 13.36 per share

- 2023-06: BRL 14.45 per share

- 2023-07: BRL 13.48 per share

- 2023-08: BRL 12.90 per share

- 2023-09: BRL 12.27 per share

- 2023-10: BRL 12.71 per share

- 2023-11: BRL 14.47 per share

- 2023-12: BRL 15.20 per share

- 2024-01: BRL 13.50 per share

- 2024-02: BRL 13.42 per share

- 2024-03: BRL 13.37 per share

- 2024-04: BRL 13.53 per share

- 2024-05: BRL 13.30 per share

- 2024-06: BRL 13.13 per share

- 2024-07: BRL 13.59 per share

- 2024-08: BRL 14.94 per share

- 2024-09: BRL 13.52 per share

- 2024-10: BRL 13.02 per share

- 2024-11: BRL 11.89 per share

- 2024-12: BRL 11.30 per share

- 2025-01: BRL 12.39 per share

- 2025-02: BRL 11.95 per share

- 2025-03: BRL 12.70 per share

- 2025-04: BRL 14.09 per share

- 2025-05: BRL 14.07 per share

- 2025-06: BRL 13.99 per share

- 2025-07: BRL 12.55 per share

- 2025-08: BRL 13.48 per share

- 2025-09: BRL 14.05 per share

- 2025-10: BRL 14.97 per share

- 2025-11: BRL 16.37 per share

- 2025-12: BRL 16.47 per share

- 2026-01: BRL 17.95 per share

- 2026-02: BRL 16.50 per share

- 2026-03: BRL 14.83 per share

- 2026-04: BRL 14.24 per share

- 2026-05: BRL 13.23 per share

- 2026-06: BRL 12.84 per share

- 2026-07: BRL 14.45 per share

- 2026-08: BRL 14.74 per share

- 2026-09: BRL 14.40 per share

## Annual estimated value (BRL per share)

- FY2017: low BRL 4.35 per share, central BRL 4.71 per share, high BRL 5.13 per share

- FY2018: low BRL 3.10 per share, central BRL 3.36 per share, high BRL 3.66 per share

- FY2019: low BRL 6.57 per share, central BRL 7.11 per share, high BRL 7.74 per share

- FY2020: low BRL 8.80 per share, central BRL 9.28 per share, high BRL 9.82 per share

- FY2021: low BRL 8.94 per share, central BRL 9.68 per share, high BRL 10.55 per share

- FY2022: low BRL 9.95 per share, central BRL 10.49 per share, high BRL 11.11 per share

- FY2023: low BRL 10.08 per share, central BRL 10.91 per share, high BRL 11.89 per share

- FY2024: low BRL 10.94 per share, central BRL 11.54 per share, high BRL 12.21 per share

- FY2025: low BRL 10.15 per share, central BRL 10.98 per share, high BRL 11.96 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

[Original 20-F filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471055/000129281426000592/bsbrform20f_2025.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-27.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Not a wonderful business

1 quality test fails. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
BRL 14.24
Buy up to
BRL 10.96
Expected / yr
15.4% at today's price (18.2% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
Are managers owners
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 9 needed).

10y median
BRL 13B
Worst year
BRL 7.3B
Latest · 2025
BRL 13B

Earned a median 16.8% on tangible equity (minimum 12%), and the second-worst year 13.6% (minimum 5%).

10y median
16.8%
Worst year
11.5%
Latest · 2025
13.9%

Book value plus dividends grew 16.5% a year (minimum 7%).

9y median
13.4%
Worst year
-31.4%
Latest · 2025
13.4%

Book value gained 5.15 per share against 6.5 kept (must cover the amount kept).

10y median
100
Worst year
173
Latest · 2025
99

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

Filing signals · estimated likelihood
Control weakness2%Auditor change2%Going concern2%
Material weakness in internal control: 2% estimated likelihood. ; Auditor change within the past three years disclosed: 2% estimated likelihood. ; Going-concern uncertainty: 2% estimated likelihood.
accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeBRL 10.12 – BRL 11.94
Buy at or belowCentral value BRL 10.96
Discount to value1 − 14.24 / 10.96 = -30.0%
Return / yearAbout 15.4% a year at today's price (required return 18.2%)
Cash-flow inputsBook BRL 12.28/share; ROE 16.8%; first payout BRL 1.33/share, growing 6.0% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return18.2% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net incomeBRL 13B
16B020162025
FY2016 · Net income: BRL 7.3B; FY2017 · Net income: BRL 8.9B; FY2018 · Net income: BRL 13B; FY2019 · Net income: BRL 16B; FY2020 · Net income: BRL 13B; FY2021 · Net income: BRL 16B; FY2022 · Net income: BRL 14B; FY2023 · Net income: BRL 9.4B; FY2024 · Net income: BRL 13B; FY2025 · Net income: BRL 13B
Net income
Book / shareBRL 12.31
12.31020162025
FY2016 · Book / share: BRL 7.16; FY2017 · Book / share: BRL 7.51; FY2018 · Book / share: BRL 4.69; FY2019 · Book / share: BRL 8.81; FY2020 · Book / share: BRL 10.00; FY2021 · Book / share: BRL 9.90; FY2022 · Book / share: BRL 10.57; FY2023 · Book / share: BRL 11.03; FY2024 · Book / share: BRL 11.62; FY2025 · Book / share: BRL 12.31
Book / share
Dividend / shareBRL 0.87
1.37020162025
FY2016 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.43; FY2017 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.75; FY2018 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.47; FY2019 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.93; FY2020 · Dividend / share: BRL 1.37; FY2021 · Dividend / share: BRL 1.33; FY2022 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.99; FY2023 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.75; FY2024 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.75; FY2025 · Dividend / share: BRL 0.87
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity13.9%
24.8%0.0%20162025
FY2016 · Return on tangible equity: 13.6%; FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 15.8%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 20.6%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 24.8%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 17.9%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 21.0%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 18.2%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 11.5%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 15.4%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 13.9%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares7.5B
13B020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 7.5B; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 7.5B; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 13B; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 7.5B; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 7.5B; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 7.5B; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 7.4B; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 7.4B; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 7.5B; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 7.5B
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025Original filing ↗ ·