return on equity

American

noun

Accounting.

the amount of profit computed by dividing net income before taxes less preferred dividends by the value of stockholders' equity, usually expressed as a percentage. ROE

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CIBC’s adjusted return on equity of 17.4% sits among the highest of Canada’s big banks, Boland notes.

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Royal Bank’s return on equity, a measure of profitability closely watched by analysts, expanded by 0.8 percentage point on last year to 17.6%.

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Boland says the improvement in the Canadian bank’s return on equity was welcome, and supports the goal of hitting 15% exiting 2027.

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Bank of Montreal, which has set a target of exiting 2027 with a return on equity of 15%, saw the measure expand to 12.4% on an adjusted basis in the latest quarter.

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Scotiabank this week brought forward by a year its goal of a 14% return on equity to fiscal 2027 after the metric widened to 11.1% in the latest three-month period.

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