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Company snapshot — National Bank of Canada

NA.TO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
National Bank of Canada operates as a diversified bank across personal and commercial banking, wealth management, financial markets, and specialty finance abroad. It serves individuals, businesses, institutions and governments, mainly in Canada, with added banking and lending in Cambodia through its international arm. It is headquartered in Montreal.
Where it sits in the stack
National Bank of Canada carries no seat in our index; it sits in the diary's Financial Services sleeve for Canadian banks. Inside that sleeve it is read as a domestic deposit-and-lending franchise rather than a technology or build-out name.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names in Canada, including Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Manulife Financial, Sun Life Financial, Power Corporation of Canada, IGM Financial and Intact Financial. The market also compares it with Toronto-Dominion Bank as a further large domestic peer.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score across the diary's modules, with valuation the strongest reading and quality the weakest; it holds no index seat and has not featured in the diary's quotes.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak quality reading persists alongside a firmer valuation score, and whether the chart's distance from its 52-week high narrows or widens.

National Bank of Canada (NA.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada, classified under Financial Services.

The Closelook company score reads 48/100 composite (momentum 65, quality 51, valuation 61) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for NA.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Banks - Diversified · Canada · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Banks - Diversified · Canada

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against NA.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.34%, quarterly · buybacks 213 m CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What NA.TO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 4.99 CAD per share · a 2.34% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +114.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.32 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 1.32 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-29
  • By calendar year 2025: 4.75 CAD (partial) · 2026: 2.56 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-31
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 1.95 bn CAD 40% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 213 m CAD 0.3% of today's market value
  • Share count +11.6% in FY2025 24 m CAD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 2.17 bn CAD · 52% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is National Bank of Canada (NA.TO)?

National Bank of Canada trades as NA.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) and is classified under Financial Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is NA.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — National Bank of Canada is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is National Bank of Canada's Closelook composite score?

48 out of 100, with momentum 65, quality 51 and valuation 61 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does NA.TO trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -4.1% vs the 50-day and +8.5% vs the 200-day average, 10.1% below the 52-week high and +48.2% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does National Bank of Canada do?

National Bank of Canada operates as a diversified bank across personal and commercial banking, wealth management, financial markets, and specialty finance abroad. It serves individuals, businesses, institutions and governments, mainly in Canada, with added banking and lending in Cambodia through its international arm. It is headquartered in Montreal. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names in Canada, including Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Manulife Financial, Sun Life Financial, Power Corporation of Canada, IGM Financial and Intact Financial. The market also compares it with Toronto-Dominion Bank as a further large domestic peer.

Where does National Bank of Canada sit in the AI build-out?

National Bank of Canada carries no seat in our index; it sits in the diary's Financial Services sleeve for Canadian banks. Inside that sleeve it is read as a domestic deposit-and-lending franchise rather than a technology or build-out name. It carries a Closelook score across the diary's modules, with valuation the strongest reading and quality the weakest; it holds no index seat and has not featured in the diary's quotes.

Does National Bank of Canada pay a dividend?

National Bank of Canada has paid 4.99 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.34% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.32 CAD on 2026-06-29. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 1.95 bn CAD in dividends and bought back 213 m CAD of its own shares, 52% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 11.6% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for NA.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Banks - Diversified, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.