Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $46.79, with 3.19 million shares of worth about $149.32 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.09% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 1.06%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 1.21B shares, out of which, 1.21B shares are available for trading.
However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 46.99, or with a gain of 1.06%. Stock saw a price change of 0.71% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 0.84%. Year-to-date (YTD), BNS shares are showing a performance of -3.90% which decreased to -15.80% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $39.79 but also hit the highest price of $55.91 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Bank Of Nova Scotia shares is 2.05 million. The stock is currently trading 0.92% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 0.59% for SMA50 and it goes to -0.03% lower than SMA200.
Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) currently have 1.21B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 47.33% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $56.80B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.01. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 10.89, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.30 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.85 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.92. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for BNS, volatility over the week remained 1.71% while standing at 1.55% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Bank Of Nova Scotia (BNS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $1.21 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $1.14 and it is $5.19 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $1.16 which is $1.38 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $1.35 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -0.41% while it is estimated to increase by 7.60% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 5.90% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -4.16% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
