BNS has established itself as a leading bank in the Americas offering a broad range of services and products such as personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. The Bank employs 89,239 workers, has 2,279 branches and offices, and 8,584 automated-banking-machines (ABMs). BNS is the cheapest Canadian Bank and also pays the highest yield. We think further multiple expansion could occur as BNS executes on its strategy and continues to string together earnings beats. With a positive outlook we are maintain our rating of an A-.

EQB operates through its subsidiaries, Equitable Bank, EQ Bank, ACM Advisors, Bennington Financial, and Concentra Trust. Known as Canada’s Challenger bank, it serves 578,000 Canadians and nearly 200 Canadian credit unions. EQB has gradually expanded its market share in the Canadian banking space, and has demonstrated its strength in the lending, deposits, and fee-based businesses space. We are maintaining our coverage of ‘B+’.

ENB operates as a natural gas utility provider and distributor, the company’s main business is to deliver clean, natural gas utility to a broad base of customers in a reliable, socially responsible manner. ENB’s business model delivers predictable cash flows and a growing stream of dividends year after year through capital investment and operational efficiency. We like the story here and would be open to upgrading the stock in the near term, however, to be conservative we are maintaining our rating at “B+” in this update.