Scotiabank Highlights from Q1 2025 Earnings

February 27, 2025
Scotiabank Highlights from Q1 2025 Earnings

🏦 Bank of Nova Scotia Q1 2025 Report

On an adjusted basis, Scotiabank earned $1.76 per share, beating expectation of $1.65. The bank is shifting focus from Latin America to North America.

🔹 Key Highlights

  • Impairment Charge: $1.36B loss related to the announced sale of banking operations in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama.

🔹 Net Quarterly Income

  • Reported: $993M (-55% Year-over-Year)
  • Adjusted: $2.36B (+6.8% Year-over-Year)

🔹 Net Write-Offs

  • Total: $954M
  • +19% Year-over-Year, -1.1% Quarter-over-Quarter

🔹 Provisions for Credit Losses (PCL)

  • Total: $1.16B
  • +21% Year-over-Year, +13% Quarter-over-Quarter

🔹 Other Info About $BNS (February 26, 2025)

  • Dividend Yield: 5.9%
  • P/E: 14.9
  • Market Cap: $89.7B

Scotiabank's Canadian and international banking earnings declined, while wealth management and capital markets saw strong growth.

🔹 Strategic Moves This Quarter

  • ✅ BNS closed its 14.9% strategic minority investment in KeyCorp (U.S.).
  • ✅ Announced a deal to transfer Colombian & Central American operations to Davivienda, in exchange for ~20% ownership in the Colombian banking group Davivienda.

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