Revenue Per Share Comparison Between 5 Big Canadian Banks

To find the revenue per share of a company, do the following

1.) Go to: http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/
2.) Enter the ticker symbol of your chosen company in the “Name or Symbol” field (note “.to” is not required because Canada is listed as the market already)
3.) Click on Highlights under the Financial Results header in the left tool bar
4.) Revenue per share is listed fifth from the bottom in the table displayed.
5.) Repeat for each of the five companies selected, and add it to the table of info:

Company
Net Profit Margin (last 12 months)
Earnings Per Share
Revenue Per Share

Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
13.60%
2.56%
20.68

Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD)
16.39%
3.49%
19.88

Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)
25.32%
3.32%
14.23

Bank of Montreal (BMO)
16.84%
3.29%
19.28

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM)
12.04%
2.65%
25.97

A couple of observations:
1.) RY, TD, and BMO have pretty much the same amount of business activity taking place
2.) BNS has significantly less activity taking place, while CM has significantly more
3.) BNS, with the lowest revenue per share, has the highest net proft margin
4.) CM, with the highest revenue per share, has the lowest profit margin
5.) The ranking of the bank in the revenue per share automatically places it in the opposite ranking in the net profit margin category.

What does this mean to my investment decision? Net profit margin trumps revenue per share, so the revenue per share data will be dropped from this particular comparison moving forward.

Revenue/Sales Per Share

Revenue (or sales) per share is a measure of the revenues (sales) a business made over a period of time, divided by the number of shares outstanding.

English: Revenue/share is used to analyze the amount of activity taking place in the business, relative to the number of shares outstanding. The higher this number is, the more business activity taking place. Revenue per share can vary a lot between businesses.

For a more detailed description, go to: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/salespershare.asp
Tomorrow we'll find the most recent earnings per share for each of the five big banks we're comparing.