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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, September 2, 2022

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BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $71.41, Toronto symbol BNS, remains a buy. The bank last raised its quarterly dividend by 3.0% with the July 2022 payment. Investors now receive $1.03 a share instead of $1.00. The new annual rate of $4.12 yields a high 5.8%. In its fiscal 2022 third quarter, ended July 31, 2022, Bank of Nova Scotia set aside $412 million to cover future loan losses. That’s up 8.4% from $380 million a year earlier. If you exclude unusual items, the bank’s earnings in the quarter rose 3.0%, to $2.52 billion from $2.45 billion. Due to fewer shares outstanding, per-share earnings gained 4.5%, to $2.10 from $2.01. However, that fell short of the consensus estimate of $2.11 a share. Thanks to rising interest rates, earnings at the Canadian banking operations (47% of the total) rose 12.4% in the quarter while earnings at the international banking business (24%) gained 28.0%. However, earnings at the wealth management operations (15%) dipped 3.5% due to fallen assets under…