During the last session, Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS)’s traded shares were 0.88 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.12. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $50.25, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.32% or $0.16. The 52-week high for the BNS share is $57.07, that puts it down -13.57 from that peak though still a striking 13.09% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $43.67. The company’s market capitalization is $62.59B, and the average trade volume was 1.96 million shares over the past three months.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.20. BNS has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 8 analysts who have looked at this stock. 7 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) trade information
Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) registered a 0.32% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.32% in intraday trading to $50.25, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.20%, and it has moved by 8.09% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 6.64%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $74, which implies an increase of 32.09% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $74 and $74 respectively. As a result, BNS is trading at a discount of -47.26% off the target high and -47.26% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -2.89%. While earnings are projected to return 6.20% in 2025, the next five years will return 8.83% per annum.
BNS Dividends
Bank Of Nova Scotia is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Bank Of Nova Scotia is 3.04, with the dividend yield indicating at 6.06 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
The next largest institutional holding, with 69.43 million shares, is of BANK OF MONTREAL /CAN/’s that is approximately 5.2175% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $3.28 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) shares are VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund and VANGUARD TAX-MANAGED FUNDS-Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund . Data provided on Jan 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund owns about 17.16 shares. This amounts to just over 1.38 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $862.22 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 10.58, or about 0.85% of the stock, which is worth about $531.87 million.
