Banks and Other Things

For dividend paying stocks, the Dividend Payout Ratios are important. For the DPRs, lower ratios are better ratios. For Banks the DPR for EPS is the most important one. When looking at these ratios, it would appear that CIBC has the best one, which is the lowest one. The National Bank is above the 40 to 55% level you would expect from a bank.

The problem with cash flow is that for banks they tend to be volatile and often negative. A lot of analysts ignore the Cash Flow of banks.

Bank	Symbol	DPR for EPS	DPR for CFPS
Bank of Montreal	BMO	48.55%	-81.94%
Bank of Nova Scotia	BNS	49.91%	84.87%
CIBC	CM	44.39%	18.47%
Royal Bank	RY	47.20%	17.69%
National Bank	NA	65.35%	13.37%
TD Bank	TD	46.25%	9.09%

When Shares are issued for Stock Options, you want a company that issues around the same relative number of shares for its industry. Of course, the lower the number of shares issued for stock options, the less money comes out of the earnings for shareholders. In the value column, I am putting in the value of the stock options at the end of the calendar year.

In 2017 CIBC has one of the lowest percentages of their shares issued for stock options purposes. However, it was the second lowest when it came to the cost of these stock options. For 2017 BNS has the highest percentage of their shares issued for stock purposes and Royal Bank the highest cost.

Bank	Symbol	Shares	% of Shares	Value 2018
Bank of Montreal	BMO	2.103	0.33%	$179M
Bank of Nova Scotia	BNS	4.228	0.35%	$304M
CIBC	CM	0.816	0.21%	$89M
Royal Bank	RY	4.981	0.34%	$417M
National Bank	NA	1.123	0.33%	$54M
TD Bank	TD	4.900	0.26%	$298M

Since I was looking for performance on a long term basis this year, I want to include the dividend growth and total return for the 6 banks that I cover.

Below is a chart showing the long term growth of dividends for these banks. Certainly in most cases the 15 to 30 years growth is better than the 5 and 10 years growth. The TD Bank has the best ones over each period, but Royal Bank is not far behind. In all durations but one, TD Bank is the highest.

Bank	Symbol	5 Yr	10 Yr	15 Yr	20 Yr	25 Yr	30 Yr
Bank of Montreal	BMO	4.68%	2.65%	7.44%	7.69%	7.87%	6.74%
Bank of Nova Scotia	BNS	6.85%	5.77%	10.05%	11.12%	10.35%	9.89%
CIBC	CM	6.89%	5.03%	8.01%	8.20%	8.51%	7.56%
Royal Bank	RY	8.15%	6.17%	10.10%	11.14%	10.65%	9.20%
National Bank	NA	8.25%	7.42%	11.26%	10.98%	7.11%	7.26%
TD Bank	TD	10.21%	8.34%	10.03%	11.22%	10.58%	10.83%

The other thing I looked at was long term total return. This is calculated from December to December. It will include both capital gains and dividends. It is a compound growth rate per year. Here TD Bank is the highest in 3 durations, Royal Bank in 2 durations and National Bank in 1 duration.

Bank	Symbol	5 Yr	10 Yr	15 Yr	20 Yr	25 Yr	30 Yr
Bank of Montreal	BMO	14.91%	10.13%	10.18%	9.65%	14.48%	15.30%
Bank of Nova Scotia	BNS	11.25%	8.64%	12.08%	12.04%	15.91%	16.60%
CIBC	CM	13.49%	10.03%	12.15%	8.82%	14.64%	12.50%
Royal Bank	RY	15.37%	10.86%	12.71%	12.33%	16.50%	17.03%
National Bank	NA	14.35%	13.28%	13.62%	12.24%	16.17%	12.28%
TD Bank	TD	15.73%	11.05%	14.00%	12.05%	20.62%	14.43%

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