Santos Brasil Participacoes S.A. operates within the Marine cargo handling sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Santos Brasil Participacoes S.A. with three other freight shipping companies in Latin America: Portuaria Cabo Froward SA of CHILE (2020 sales of 32.14 billion Chilean Pesos [US$40.82 million] of which 100% was Single Bus segment), Puerto Ventanas S.A. of CHILE (118.20 billion Chilean Pesos [US$150.12 million] of which 55% was Rail), and Wilson Sons Limited (1.82 billion Brazilian Reals [US$343.27 million] of which 52% was Towage).

Sales Analysis. Sales were up sharply during the second quarter of 2021 versus the previous year's second quarter. During the second quarter of 2021, sales at Santos Brasil Participacoes S.A. totalled 379.55 million Brazilian Reals. This is an increase of 68.8% from the 224.85 million Brazilian Reals in sales at the company during the second quarter of 2020. This was the biggest same quarter rise in sales at Santos Brasil Participacoes S.A. in the previous 35 quarters. During the first two quarters of 2021, sales totalled 694.14 million Brazilian Reals, which is 54.7% higher than through the first two quarters of 2020. During the year ended December of 2020, sales at Santos Brasil Participacoes S.A. were 929.56 million Brazilian Reals (US$175.75 million). This is a decrease of 4.4% versus 2019, when the company's sales were 972.59 million Brazilian Reals. The sales level in 2020 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2015, Santos Brasil Participacoes S.A. had sales of 964.32 million Brazilian Reals. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 20.5% decline in Vehicles Terminal, from 53.54 million Brazilian Reals to 42.58 million Brazilian Reals. There were also decreases in sales in Port Operations (down 2.9% to 670.89 million Brazilian Reals) and Logistics Operations (down 4.7% to 226.03 million Brazilian Reals) .