Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-01-02
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0000891478-25-000002
Chunk: 14

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-01-02
Form: 6-K
Chunk 14
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2025.

At the board of directors held on 22 March 2024, it was agreed to pay an interim dividend in cash against 2023 results of EUR 9.50 cents per share agreed by the board of directors on 19 February 2024, which became effective on 2 May 2024.

In addition, the general meeting of shareholders approved the implementation of a share repurchase program agreed by the board of directors for a maximum amount of 1,459 million euros, which finalized on June 2024.

On 26 September 2023, the board of directors approved the payment of an interim dividend in cash against 2023 results of EUR 8.10 cents per share (see Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity), which was made effective on 2 November 2023.

Likewise, the board of directors agreed to implement a share repurchase programme to which an amount equivalent to 25% of the Group's underlying profit in the first half of 2023 would be allocated for a maximum amount of EUR 1,310 million, which finalized on January 2024.

In the general meeting of shareholders on 31 March 2023 it was approved the payment of a complementary dividend in cash charged to the results of the financial year 2022, agreed at the board of directors on 27 February 2023, of EUR 5.95 cents per share that was effective as of 2 May 2023. Likewise, the implementation of a share repurchase program charged to income for the year of 2022 agreed by this board of directors for a maximum amount of EUR 921 million, completed in April 2023, was also approved.

| January - September 2024 |     | 15 |

b) Earnings per share from continuing and discontinued operations

i. Basic earnings per share

Basic earnings per share for the period are calculated by dividing the net profit attributable to Grupo Santander for the first nine months adjusted by the after-tax amount relating to the remuneration of contingently convertible preference shares recognised in equity by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period, excluding the average number of treasury shares held in the period.

Accordingly:

|                                                                                          |     | 30-09-2024 |                |     | 30-09-2023 |                |
| Profit attributable to the Parent (EUR million)                                          |     |            |          9,309 |     |            |          8,143 |
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