With 1.87 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.02 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $48.575 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $48.14. 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 $51.42. With its current market cap of 60.48 billion, BNS has annualized dividend of $3.04 while the current yield stands at 6.27%. BNS paid its most recent dividend on 1727827200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743465600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.09.
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 3.08%, but this was down by -0.39% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.13% while six-month performance fell -8.20%. The stock gained 3.12% in the past year, while it has lost -9.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BNS yields 3.55 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.54. For the next quarter, that number is 1.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 5.85% for this year and 13.73% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.27% 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 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 41.8 million, which was 336.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. 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 0.49081 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 54.68709 and a low target of 49.05912, the average target price over the next 12 months is 52.75078. Based on these targets, BNS could surge 12.62% to reach the target high and rise by 1.03% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.63% 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. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.92 and the low estimate is $1.59. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.78.
