Top 10 Canadian Bank Stocks

Canada's largest bank by market cap — record 2025 net income of C$19.9B, CET1 of 13.7%, and a dividend track record spanning over a decade of consecutive hikes. The HSBC Canada integration is delivering synergies ahead of schedule.

Record Q1 2026 adjusted EPS of C$2.76, with Capital Markets up 28% and corporate banking up 40%. CIBC has diversified well beyond its mortgage concentration and the multiple discount to peers offers a margin of safety.

Canada's second-largest bank, discounted due to the U.S. AML asset cap (in place until 2027). The Q1 2026 EPS of C$2.44 beat by 8% and C$8B in buybacks are underway — buying the uncertainty rather than the certainty.

Q1 2026 net income rose 16% YoY to C$2.41B as credit quality stabilised — gross impaired loans fell C$228M. BMO targets 15%+ ROE by 2027 and has paid dividends continuously since 1829.

Highest yield of the Big Six at ~4.3% after strategic repositioning toward North America — Q1 2026 EPS more than doubled YoY. The KeyCorp stake and exit from Latin American subsidiaries are the clearest pivot in Canadian banking.

Not a bank in the traditional sense, but Canada's largest life insurer with record 2025 core earnings of C$7.5B. Asia represents ~40% of earnings growing 22% YoY — the closest thing Canadian investors have to a homegrown emerging-market growth play.