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Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)

Bank of Nova Scotia files a 40-F with the SEC once a year, in Canadian dollars. In the year to 31 October 2025 its profit attributable to shareholders was CAD 7,789 million, up 0.4%, and diluted earnings per share CAD 5.67.

Earnings per share are per ordinary share, in Canadian dollars. The share that trades in the US can be a depositary share standing for more or fewer ordinary shares, so no price ratio is worked out on this page.

The public record on BNS

Planned insider salesno Form 144 notice in twelve months
Options tapeput/call 1.01 by open interest on 26 September 2026; the straddle prices a 3.9% move to 16 October 2026
Holders9 of the followed funds hold it; largest Norges Bank; 3 Schedule 13D or 13G filings in twelve months
Congress0 House trades disclosed in six months
Short interest12.0 million shares short, 5.96 days to cover at 15 September 2026

Profit and loss, 10 fiscal years

Year toOct 2025Oct 2024Oct 2023*Oct 2022Oct 2021Oct 2020Oct 2019Oct 2018Oct 2017Oct 2016
Profit before tax10,5099,9249,67112,93212,8268,39611,27011,10610,2769,398
Income tax2,7512,0322,2212,7582,8711,5432,4722,3822,0332,030
Profit for the year7,7587,8927,45010,1749,9556,8538,7988,7248,2437,368
Profit attributable to shareholders7,7897,7587,3389,9169,6246,7788,3908,5488,0057,117

CAD million, from each year's annual report on the SEC's EDGAR, the year linked to its filing, on the IFRS tags the company filed. A line the company does not file under the standard tag is left out rather than estimated. A year marked * shows the figure as the company restated it in a later annual report (Oct 2023); the first-filed figure is in the CSV. Profit for the year includes the part that belongs to minority shareholders; profit attributable to shareholders is the part EPS is struck on.

Year toOct 2025Oct 2024Oct 2023*Oct 2022Oct 2021Oct 2020Oct 2019Oct 2018Oct 2017Oct 2016
Diluted EPS5.675.875.728.027.705.306.686.826.495.77
Basic EPS5.845.945.788.057.745.436.726.906.555.80

CAD per ordinary share, as filed.

Cash flow

Year toOct 2025Oct 2024Oct 2023*Oct 2022Oct 2021Oct 2020Oct 2019Oct 2018Oct 2017Oct 2016
Cash from operations5,40715,65231,72416,943-12,80756,664-12,02517,81116,5844,536
Dividends paid5,8755,6705,4225,1184,6044,5594,4424,1723,7973,598

CAD million. Purchase of property, plant and equipment is the cash line as filed; purchases of intangible assets and acquisitions are not in it. Free cash flow is cash from operations less that purchase, arithmetic on the two filed lines.

Balance sheet at year end

Year toOct 2025Oct 2024Oct 2023*Oct 2022Oct 2021Oct 2020Oct 2019Oct 2018Oct 2017Oct 2016
Total assets1,460,0421,412,0271,411,0431,349,4181,184,8441,136,4661,086,161998,493915,273n/a
Equity attributable to shareholders86,86682,36976,84273,22570,80268,12767,52265,22860,03357,821
Cash and cash equivalents10,2569,40610,17311,0659,69311,12310,9048,9977,8256,855
Lease liabilities2,9552,9823,2023,3233,4133,475n/an/an/an/a
Goodwill8,5858,9619,1818,8748,8489,2799,63110,0077,2437,384

CAD million, at each fiscal year end. Borrowings is the company's own stated total where it files one; it is never added up from its parts here.

Ratios on the filed lines

Year toOct 2025Oct 2024Oct 2023*Oct 2022Oct 2021Oct 2020Oct 2019Oct 2018Oct 2017Oct 2016
Return on year-end equity9.0%9.4%9.5%13.5%13.6%9.9%12.4%13.1%13.3%12.3%
Effective tax rate26.2%20.5%23.0%21.3%22.4%18.4%21.9%21.4%19.8%21.6%

Arithmetic on the filed lines of the same year: margins over revenue, return on equity as profit attributable to shareholders over year-end equity, tax over profit before tax.

Annual reports on EDGAR

FormYear toFiled
40-F31 October 20252 December 2025EDGAR

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