QualityDipStocks / Finance · Commercial Banks
Bank Of Montreal BMO
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 8% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $98.04−43%
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −8%
- Risk vs market
- Market-likebeta 0.97
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $171.13
- Fair value est.base case$98.04−42.7%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$119.92−29.9%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$171.13you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$185.81+8.6%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Financials model (residual income). Same residual-income model as the base: cost of equity 9.5% ±1 point and return on equity 10.8% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 8.8%; bull = 8.5% and 12.8%. A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, BMO would need a return on equity of about 19% a year; our estimate uses 11%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much BMO moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves about in line with the market, and its own price swings are 1.6× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.97
- Volatility
- 21% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.60
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.47
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
Cash returnsDividend yield of 3.0% ($3.6B paid over 12 months, 58% of earnings).
GrowthSales grew 11% to $26.0B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 20% in the last fiscal year, above the 17% median for the 137 Finance companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur residual-income fair value estimate is $98.04, 43% below the price.
GrowthSales grew 2.5% a year over the last three fiscal years, below the 9.3% median for the 144 Finance companies we cover.
ValuationP/E of 19.4×, above the 13.5× median for the 151 Finance companies we cover.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 10%, below the 13% median for the 143 Finance companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Bank Of Montreal in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Commercial Banks
All fundamentals
P/E 19.4 · ROE 10% · Sales +11%
Valuation
- P/E
- 19.4×Finance median 13.5×
- Price / FCF
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a bank
- FCF yield
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a bank
- EV / EBITDA
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Price / sales
- 4.67×
- Price / book
- 1.92×
- Market cap
- $121Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $26.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +10.6%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +2.5%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $11.44
- EPS growth, last FY
- +20.3%
- Net income, 12 months
- $6.2B
- Net income growth
- +19%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Operating margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net margin
- 24.0%
- FCF margin
- 23.5%
- Return on equity
- 10%
- Return on invested capital
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $48.4B
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Debt / equity
- n/adeposits/float make debt/equity not comparable for a bank
- Interest coverage
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $6.1B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −66%
- Dividend yield
- 2.97%$3.6B paid
- Payout ratio
- 58%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $358M0.3% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Oct 31, 2025; balance sheet at Oct 31, 2025. From Bank Of Montreal’s SEC filings, reported in CAD and converted to US dollars. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $98.04
Financials model (residual income): book value $87.49 a share on Jul 31, 2026, converted from CAD at 0.7168, plus the earnings above a 9.5% cost of equity. ROE 10.8%, the average of 10.0% for the trailing 12 months to Jul 31, 2026 and 11.5% over fiscal 2021–2025, on average common equity; payout 76% of earnings (dividends 59% + net buybacks 17%), so book grows by the retained rest; the return above 9.5% fades halfway toward 9.5% over 10 years, then grows at 3% (terminal value). From the 6-K filed Aug 25, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 53 · 5 days +1.2%
The business
FCF $48.5B · Sales +11%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$48.5B
- Free-cash-flow yield39.7%
- Return on equity11%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+11%
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
BMO is outside our quality screen
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