The Bank of Nova Scotia is a financial services provider providing a range of products and services, including personal, commercial, corporate and investment banking. Co. has four operating segments: Canadian Banking, which provides a suite of financial advice and banking solutions to Retail, Small Business and Commercial Banking customers; International Banking, which is a franchise with Retail, Corporate and Commercial customers; Global Wealth Management, which is focused on delivering wealth management advice and solutions; and Global Banking and Markets, which provides corporate clients with lending and transaction services, investment banking advice and access to capital markets. The BNS YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the BNS YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether BNS YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the BNS YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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