Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS)’s traded shares stood at 0.87 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.14. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $56.62, to imply a decrease of -0.16% or -$0.09 in intraday trading. The BNS share’s 52-week high remains $57.07, putting it -0.79% down since that peak but still an impressive 22.87% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $43.67. The company has a valuation of $70.52B, with an average of 1.73 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.02 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS), translating to a mean rating of 3.17. Of 8 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give BNS a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 7 advise Hold as 1 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 1.72.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) trade information
After registering a -0.16% downside in the last session, Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 2.59%, and 4.35% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 22.74%. Short interest in Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) saw shorts transact 26.97 million shares and set a 10.37 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $67 and $75.59601535 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, BNS has been trading -33.51% off suggested target high and -18.33% from its likely low.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 10.20% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 7 analysts is 9.3B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 6 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 9.41B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 8.36B and 8.53B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 11.20% before jumping 10.37% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -2.89% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 7.32% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 10.91% annually.
BNS Dividends
Bank Of Nova Scotia has its next earnings report out on 2025-May-27. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Bank Of Nova Scotia has a forward dividend ratio of 3.07, with the share yield ticking at 5.43% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 5.68%.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS)’s Major holders
Bank Of Nova Scotia insiders hold 0.05% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 51.30% of the shares at 51.32% float percentage. In total, 51.30% institutions holds shares in the company, led by ROYAL BANK OF CANADA. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 100.42 million shares (or 7.5458% of shares), all amounting to roughly $4.59 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BANK OF MONTREAL /CAN/ with 69.43 million shares, or about 5.2175% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $3.28 billion.
We also have VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund and VANGUARD TAX-MANAGED FUNDS-Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) shares. Going by data provided on Apr 30, 2025 , VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund holds roughly 17.71 shares. This is just over 1.42% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.0 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 10.96, or 0.88% of the shares, all valued at about 620.33 million.
