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The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) stock score

Financial Services · Banks - Diversified · Canada

$88.45 ▲ +0.98% today

47.6
Dad Score, out of 100
middling

The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) is a Banks - Diversified company in the Financial Services sector, listed in Canada. On DadFin's weekly run it scores 47.6 out of 100 on the Dad Score, a middling reading that places the business ahead of 48% of the 5,774 US and Canadian stocks DadFin fully scores. Inside Financial Services it ranks #786 of 1,228. Its strongest axes are growth, liquidity and macro; its weakest are quality and price action.

Scores from the run of Oct 4, 2026. The Dad Score answers one question: how good is this business, measured against its own sector. How it is built →

The eight axes

Valuation
Average
Quality
Below average
Growth
Strong
Price action
Below average
Risk
Below average
Conviction
Average
Liquidity
Strong
Macro
Above average

Each axis is ranked inside the stock's own sector. Subscribers see the percentile and every input behind each bar.

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)17.0×
P/E (forward)13.7×
Dividend yield4.90%
Return on capital3.2%
Operating margin41.2%
Revenue growth (YoY)+10.4%
FCF yield1.4%
Net debt / EBITDA3.00×
Piotroski F-Score4 / 9
52-week change+42.4%
Market cap$111.0B
Next earningsDec 2, 2026

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Banks - Diversified peers

StockCompanyDad ScoreBandMarket cap
JPMJPMorgan Chase & Co.49.3middling$883.5B
BACBank of America Corporation68.2middling$375.9B
HSBCHSBC Holdings plc72.3good$328.9B
RYRoyal Bank of Canada32.9weak$270.9B
MUFGMitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, In35.8weak$256.9B
WFCWells Fargo & Company77.0good$243.3B
CCitigroup Inc.60.8middling$215.6B
SANBanco Santander, S.A.14.5poor$193.7B

Prices from DadFin's live feed (refreshed about every 15 minutes in the session); scores from the weekly run of Oct 4, 2026. Fundamentals as reported in the latest filings. Research, not investment advice.