The bank has four major business segments: Canadian banking, international banking, global wealth management, and global banking and markets. It offers a range of advice, products, and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. The bank's international operations span numerous countries and are more concentrated in the Latin America region.
We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.
The chart below shows how we grade Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) across the board compared to its closest peers.
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81.92
Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.
82.13
Quality is a composite ranking that evaluates a company's operational efficiency and financial health by analyzing historical profitability metrics and fundamental strength indicators on a percentile basis relative to peers.
Earnings History (3 years)
It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.Ideally, we would like to see a company have a long history of consistently high dividend payouts that have grown at a consistent rate. From here we want to be confident that this sort of dividend growth and consistency will persist into the future.
The chart below shows the historical trend in Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) dividend yield on an annual basis.
The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility
Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.
This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is 0.1280 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of 1.1372
The main purpose of an income statement is to convey details of profitability and business activities. Below, is BNS's income statement for the previous four years along with its trailing-twelve- month profit & loss.
It breaks down what company owns (assets) and what a company owes (liabilities), in order to give investors an overview of its capital structure.
