National Bank of Canada (NA.TO)
Financials · TSX · Canada
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
National Bank of Canada trades at C$234.34, which is 85% below the C$434.66 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 57 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 20.4 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About National Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada provides financial services to individuals, businesses, institutional clients, and governments in Canada and internationally. It operates through four segments: Personal and Commercial, Wealth Management, Financial Markets, and U.S. Specialty Finance and International. The Personal and Commercial segment offers banking, financing, and investing services to individuals, advisors, and businesses, as well as insurance operations. The Wealth Management segment provides investment solutions, trust services, banking services, lending services, and other wealth management solutions offered through internal and third-party distribution networks. The Financial Markets segment offers corporate and investment banking solutions for large and mid-size corporations, public sector organizations, and institutional investors. The U.S. Specialty Finance and International segment provides specialty finance products; and personal and commercial banking in Cambodia. National Bank of Canada was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
NA.TO passes 6 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Common questions
Is National Bank of Canada (NA.TO) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of C$434.66, NA.TO at C$234.34 is 85% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is NA.TO's P/E ratio?
NA.TO trades at 20.4 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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