With 1.48 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.98 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $51.15 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $50.55. The 52-week range on BNS shows that it touched its highest point at $57.07 and its lowest point at $43.67 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $49.73. With its current market cap of 63.57 billion, BNS has annualized dividend of $3.04 while the current yield stands at 5.96%. BNS paid its most recent dividend on 1727827200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743465600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.11.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of BNS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.90%, but this was up by 8.90% over a month. The stock gained 6.29% in the past year, while it has lost -4.99% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BNS yields 3.55 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.52. For the next quarter, that number is 1.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 5.70% for this year and 13.51% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.99% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -2.89%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.25 billion BNS shares are outstanding with a float of 1.24 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-30, short shares totaled 25.06 million, which was 200.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1743379200. In addition to Mr. L. Scott Thomson as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Rajagopal Viswanathan serves as its Group Head & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.48889 of BNS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BNS since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With BNS analysts setting a high price target of 53.11737 and a low target of 48.70202, the average target price over the next 12 months is 50.639507. Based on these targets, BNS could surge 4.07% to reach the target high and fall by -4.58% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -0.78% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.64566 being high and $6.3579 being low. For BNS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.49492.
