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Bank of Nova Scotia

  • BNS
  • NYSE
  • Financial Services
  • Latest 57.45
  • Currency US$
  • Change 0.11
  • Percent Change 0.192 %
  • Volume 247,931
  • Thu May 23, 2013 12:46 PM EDT NYSE data delayed 15 minutes.
Average recommendation
14 Analysts Reporting (Nov 07, 2012)
Strong Buy
Buy
Hold
Underperform
Sell
Change over time
Analyst rating breakdown
  Latest 4 weeks ago 2 months ago 3 months ago Last Year
Strong Buy 10 10 9 8 5
Buy 3 3 3 3 2
Hold 1 1 3 4 5
Underperform 0 0 0 0 0
Sell 0 0 0 0 1

As of Thu May 23, 2013 12:11 PM EDT
The consensus recommendation is the average buy, sell or hold rating for a company, based on a survey of brokerage equity analysts by Zacks Investment Research. We update the ratings daily.

Earnings & Estimates

Short Term
    Q4/10 Q1/11 Q2/11 Q3/11 Q4/11 Q1/12 Q2/12 Q3/12 Q2/13 Q3/13  

Actual quarterly earnings for the past eight quarters and estimated for the next two quarters
Estimated EPS ($)   1.00 1.06 1.09 1.12 1.08 1.15 1.15 1.20 1.26 1.31  
Actual EPS   1.00 1.10 1.10 1.11 1.10 1.20 1.18 1.16 -- --  
Surprise (%)   -- 3.8 0.9 -0.9 1.8 4.4 2.6 -3.3 -- --  
Est. % Chg from Prior Year   0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 7.1 13.2  
{#} Analysts   13 4 13 12 9 11 10 10 8 7  
Date of Earnings   Dec 03 Mar 08 May 31 Aug 30 Dec 02 Mar 06 May 29 Aug 28 May 29 Aug 28  

Data provided by Zacks Investment Research.

Long Term
    2013 2014  

Estimated annual earnings for the next
two years
Estimated EPS ($)   5.17 5.60  
Actual EPS   4.72 5.17  
Surprise (%)   -- --  
Est. % Chg from Prior Year   9.5 8.4  
{#} Analysts   10 10  
Date of Earnings   -- --  

Trends & Revisions

Earnings Per Share Trend
  Current 7-Days Ago 30-Days Ago 60-Days Ago 90-Days Ago
  Mean Mean Mean Mean Mean
Current Quarter (ends Apr 2013) 1.26 1.26 1.26 1.26 1.24
Next Quarter (ends Jul 2013) 1.31 1.31 1.32 1.31 1.30
Current Fiscal Year (ends Oct 2013) 5.17 5.17 5.17 5.14 5.10
Next Fiscal Year (ends Oct 2014) 5.60 5.60 5.59 5.57 5.53

Data provided by Zacks Investment Research.

Earnings Revisions
Last 7 Days Last 30 Days
Up Revs Down Revs Up Revs Down Revs
0 0 1 1
0 0 0 2
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 0