National Bank Financial Forecasts Lower Earnings for EQB

EQB Inc. (TSE:EQB) – Research analysts at National Bank Financial lowered their Q2 2025 earnings estimates for EQB in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday, February 25th. National Bank Financial analyst G. Dechaine now anticipates that the company will post earnings per share of $2.71 for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $2.72. The consensus estimate for EQB’s current full-year earnings is $12.60 per share. National Bank Financial also issued estimates for EQB’s Q3 2025 earnings at $3.13 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $3.20 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $13.75 EPS.

Several other analysts have also recently weighed in on EQB. CIBC boosted their price target on EQB from C$113.00 to C$130.00 in a report on Tuesday, November 26th. National Bankshares boosted their target price on shares of EQB from C$109.00 to C$117.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday. Cormark downgraded shares of EQB from a “buy” rating to a “market perform” rating and dropped their price target for the company from C$131.00 to C$110.00 in a research note on Thursday, December 5th. TD Securities lowered shares of EQB from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and cut their price target for the stock from C$126.00 to C$110.00 in a report on Friday, December 6th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets increased their price objective on EQB from C$106.00 to C$119.00 in a report on Monday, November 18th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, EQB has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of C$119.40.

EQB Stock Up 1.1 %

Shares of EQB stock opened at C$103.28 on Thursday. EQB has a twelve month low of C$78.24 and a twelve month high of C$114.22. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is C$105.22 and its 200 day simple moving average is C$103.93. The firm has a market capitalization of C$4.00 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.10, a P/E/G ratio of 0.34 and a beta of 1.59.

EQB Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, December 31st. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 31st were paid a dividend of $0.49 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, December 13th. This represents a $1.96 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.90%. This is a boost from EQB’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.47. EQB’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 29.31%.

About EQB

EQB Inc formerly Equitable Group Inc trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange TSX: EQB and EQB.PR.C and serves over 360000 Canadians through its wholly owned subsidiary Equitable Bank Canadas Challenger Bank. Equitable Bank has grown to become the countrys eighth largest independent Schedule I bank with a clear mandate to drive real change in Canadian banking to enrich peoples lives.