The Bank of Nova Scotia

BNS stock score: 62/100

$94.00 · +1.86% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
70
Fundamental
53
News
53

The reading

The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) scores 62 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 67% of Financial Services stocks and 80% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 70, fundamentals 53.

Among the fundamentals, Insider Transactions at 100 and Revenue Quality (Quarterly) at 100 score highest, while Institutional Ownership at 11 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 67 and contrarian oscillators 39 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 53; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 57 to 74, and it is down 9 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward BNS’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

53

Pulling it up

  • Insider Transactions100

    Insider transactions track recent buying and selling by company insiders.

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)96

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

Holding it back

  • Institutional Ownership11

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

  • Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)22

    Return on Invested Capital measures the operating profit a company earns on all the capital invested in it, debt and equity alike.

  • Earnings Growth (5-Year)25

    5-year earnings growth evaluates long-term profit trajectory and consistency.

32 weighted scorers; 9 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

66

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • Candlestick Patterns100

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • 52-Week Range97

    Where the price sits between its 52-week low and high.

Holding it back

  • TRIX2

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

  • Williams %R (14)5

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)5

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
53

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly601
Daily663
Weekly702
Monthly772
Quarterly762

Composite score, last 90 days

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Key facts

Market cap
$114.6B
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Banks - Diversified
Beta
1.19
Risk grade (1–10)
2
Next earnings
Dec 2, 2026

Banks - Diversified peers

CompanyMarket capScore
UBS UBS Group AG$146.7B61
BBVA Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria$141.8B64
BMO Bank of Montreal$118.5B60
CM Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce$104.4B66
BNY The Bank of New York Mellon$99.0B63
ING ING Groep$94.9B59

Questions

What is BNS's stock score today?

BNS scores 62/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 70, fundamental 53, and news sentiment 53, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is BNS a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 62 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the BNS score calculated?

94 weighted scorers feed it today: 32 fundamental, scored against Financial Services ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.