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BNS
Bank of Nova Scotia
NYSE· Financial Services· Banks - Diversified· CUSIP 064149107
$93.41-0.63%Price as of Oct 23, 00:44 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) is listed on NYSE and classified in Banks - Diversified, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has 81,734 employees. The company is worth $113.85B and trades at 17.0x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was CA$37.1B in fiscal 2025, up 10.4% from the year before. Net income was CA$7.79B. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.46%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $230.59M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $113.85B
- P/E
- 17.0x
- Forward P/E
- 13.8x
- P/B
- 1.8x
- Dividend yield
- 3.46%
- Payout
- 58.94%
- EPS
- $5.48
- ROE
- 11.46%
- Profit margin
- 28.43%
- Revenue growth
- +11.70%
- Beta
- 1.19
- 52-week high
- $95.74
- 52-week low
- $64.12
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Revenue, debt and profit are in CAD, the currency the company reports in — not converted to dollars. Dividends are in dollars.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +46.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,783.74▲ +78.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 4 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $73.69 | $53.72 | $48.69 | $48.98 | |
| EPS | CA$5.67 | CA$5.87 | CA$5.72 | CA$8.02 | |
| Dividend yield | 5.32% | 3.10% | 5.85% | 6.38% | 4.79% |
| Profit margin | 23.12% | 21.00% | 23.08% | 23.15% | 31.47% |
| ROE | 9.48% | 8.97% | 9.42% |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$80.14
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$18.95
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 3.5% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$72.09
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
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Cash flow
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Operating
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Dividends
$69.89
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HDBHdfc Bank Ltd | $22.44 | 14.6x | 8.9x | 1.83% | 11.01% | $115.33B |
| MFGMizuho Financial Group Inc | $9.71 | 13.9x | 1.6x | 1.85% | 12.49% | $117.22B |
| CMECME Group Inc | $305.98 | 25.1x | 4.1x | 3.69% | 16.13% | $110.02B |
| BMOBank of Montreal /can/ | $170.44 |
About the company
- 81,734
- Toronto, Canada
