Share capital distribution

As communicated by “other relevant information” registered with the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) on 4 December 2024 with registration number 31651, the board of directors, in accordance with the delegation granted by the ordinary general shareholders’ meeting, has resolved on the Bank’s share capital reduction through a cancellation of own shares acquired in the share buy-back programme, the beginning and termination of which Banco Santander properly notified to the market through the notice of inside information published on 27 August 2024 with registration number 2371 and the aforementioned notice of other relevant information published on 4 December 2024 with registration number 31651, respectively.

Banco Santander’s share capital has been reduced by EUR 170,890,625 through the cancellation of 341,781,250 own shares. Consequently, the resulting Bank’s share capital has been set at EUR 7,576,246,161, represented by 15,152,492,322 shares with a nominal value of EUR 0.50 each, all of them of the same class and series.

The public deed recording the corporate resolutions on the capital reduction and the consequent amendment of Article 5 of the Bank’s By-laws has been registered in the Commercial Registry of Santander, on 20 December 2024. Thereafter, the delisting of the 341,781,250 cancelled shares from the Spanish and foreign stock exchanges or stock markets on which the Bank’s shares are listed, and the cancellation of the book-entry records of the cancelled shares before the competent bodies will both be requested.

Distribución del capital social por tipo de accionista
30 September 2024
Shares Capital stock %
Board 194,634,545 1.26%
Institutional 9,198,898,790 59.37%
Retail 6,100,740,237 39.37%
Total 15,494,273,572 100.00%

Distribución geográfica del capital social
30 September 2024
Geographical area Capital stock (%)
Europe 72.92%
America 25.65%
Rest 1.43%

Distribución del accionariado y capital social por tramos
30 September 2024
Share holdings Shareholders Shares Share capital %
1 - 200 2,069,032 180,716,773 1.17%
201 - 1.000  666,781  421,080,331 2.72%
1.001 - 3.000 422,544 724,616,486 4.68%
3.001 - 30.000 314,655 2,590,420,545 16.72%
30.001 - 400.000 27,837 1,779,466,610  11.48%
More than 400.000 772 9,797,972,827  63.23%
Total 3,501,621 15,494,273,572 100.00%