Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) kicked off on Tuesday, down -3.35% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $74.72. Over the past 52 weeks, BNS has traded in a range of $44.09-$74.97.
Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 0.65% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 14.38%. With a float of $1.24 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.24 billion.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Banks – Diversified Industry. The insider ownership of Bank Of Nova Scotia is 0.07%, while institutional ownership is 48.40%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 05 ’25, was worth 892,500. In this transaction Director of this company bought 50,000 shares at a rate of $17.85, taking the stock ownership to the 162,983,726 shares.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 1/31/2025, the organization reported 1.76 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 1.67) by 0.09. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.92 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 14.38% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.95% during the next five years compared to 0.65% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Bank Of Nova Scotia’s (BNS) current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.73. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 12.22.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.04, a number that is poised to hit 1.41 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.50 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Bank Of Nova Scotia, BNS], we can find that recorded value of 3.93 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 4.77 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 63.74%.
During the past 100 days, Bank Of Nova Scotia’s (BNS) raw stochastic average was set at 85.23%, which indicates a significant increase from 23.82% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.85 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 0.78 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $69.60, while its 200-day Moving Average is $59.19. Now, the first resistance to watch is $73.41. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $74.60. The third major resistance level sits at $75.20. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $71.61, it is likely to go to the next support level at $71.01. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $69.82.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 89.29 billion has total of 1,236,013K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 52,701 M in contrast with the sum of 5,561 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 13,295 M and last quarter income was 1,582 M.
