BNS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Bank Of Nova Scotia | NYSE:BNS)

Bank of Nova Scotia is a global financial-services provider with over CAD 1.5 trillion in assets as of the end of April 2026. It has four major business segments: Canadian banking, international banking, global wealth management, and global banking and markets. It offers a range of advice, products, and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. The bank's international operations span numerous countries and are more concentrated in Latin America.

Bank Of Nova Scotia trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BNS.

As of August 5, 2026, BNS stock price climbed to $88.55 with 2,638,294 million shares trading.

BNS has a beta of 0.73, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BNS has a correlation of 0.26 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BNS has a market cap of $107.95 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Bank Of Nova Scotia reported $7 billion in Revenue and $1.47 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $404 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, BNS traded as high as $90.47 and as low as $39.80.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BNS belongs to (by Net Assets): DFIV, DFAI, FVD, DFIC, DFAX.

BNS has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +68.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +23.2%. In the last 3 month period, BNS beat the market returning +17.1%, while SPY returned +7.5%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks BNS has underperformed the stock market by returning +1.4%, while SPY returned +2.9%.

BNS support price is $86.04 and resistance is $88.22 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BNS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.