The SAN share is listed as an ordinary share on the Continuous Market in Spain, as well as in Mexico and Warsaw. In New York it is listed as an ADR and in London as a CDI.

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In application of the shareholder remuneration policy for 2022, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) approved, following a favourable report from the board of directors, the final payment of a cash dividend of EUR 5.95 cents per share (pre-tax) charged against 2022 results, paid from 2 May 2023.

Additionally, in application of the shareholder remuneration policy for 2022, in February, the board of directors approved a second share repurchase programme of up to EUR 921 million, executed between 1 March 2023 and 21 April 2023. Once finalized, in application of the 31 March 2023 AGM resolutions, on 24 April 2023 the board of directors resolved to reduce, subject to the required regulatory authorization from the European Central Bank, the share capital in the amount of EUR 134,924,476.50 by cancelling the 269,848,953 shares repurchased in the above mentioned buyback programme, representing 1.64% of the share capital. Once the required regulatory authorization is obtained, Banco Santander, S.A.'s share capital will be EUR 8,092,073,029.50 represented by 16,184,146,059 shares. 

After carrying out both actions, total shareholder remuneration against 2022 results was EUR 3,842 million (approximately 40% of 2022 underlying profit) divided approximately equally between cash dividend (EUR 1,942 million) and buyback programmes (EUR 1,900 million).

In addition, the shareholder remuneration policy the board approved for the 2023 results is a payout of approximately 50% of the Group's net reported profit (excluding non-cash, non-capital ratios impact items), distributed approximately as 50% in cash dividend and 50% in share buybacks.

The execution of the shareholder remuneration policy is subject to future corporate and regulatory approvals.

Further information on shareholder remuneration can be found in the following sections of this website:

• Dividends
• Prices of latest reinvestments (PDF 164 Kb) (Only available in Spanish)
• The most recent and historical dividend payments are shown in the table below.

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Listed below are the increases/reductions in capital which Banco Santander has developed over the periods described.

As communicated by “other relevant information” registered with the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) on 16 March 2023, the board of directors, in accordance with the delegation granted by the ordinary general shareholders’ meeting, has resolved on 1 February 2023 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 21 November 2022 with registration number 1669 and the notice of other relevant information published on 1 February 2023 with registration number 20244, respectively.

Banco Santander’s share capital has been reduced by EUR 170,203,286 through the cancellation of 340,406,572 own shares. Consequently, the resulting Bank’s share capital has been set at EUR 8,226,997,506, represented by 16,453,995,012 shares with a nominal value of EUR 0.50 each, all of them of the same class and series.

The public deed regarding the corporate resolutions on the capital reduction and the consequent amendment of Article 5 of the Bank’s By-laws has been registered with the Commercial Registry of Santander on 20 March 2023. On 23 March, took place the delisting of the 340,406,572 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.