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Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for BMO.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Banks - Diversified · Canada · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Banks - Diversified · Canada

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against BMO.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Bank of Montreal

BMO.TO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Bank of Montreal is a diversified Canadian lender with retail and commercial banking in Canada and the United States, alongside wealth management and capital markets arms. Its retail side covers everyday accounts, cards, mortgages and loans, while wealth management handles investing, insurance and retirement products for individuals and institutions. The capital markets arm underwrites debt and equity, advises on mergers, and runs trading desks across rates, credit, foreign exchange and commodities. It is headquartered in Montreal.
Where it sits in the stack
Bank of Montreal carries no seat in our index; the diary places it in the Financial Services sleeve, within the Canadian banking sector alongside the country's other diversified lenders.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group draws on scored Financial Services names based in Canada, including Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Manulife Financial, Sun Life Financial, Power Corporation of Canada and IGM Financial; the market also names Toronto-Dominion Bank as a comparison.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score built across seven modules; momentum reads as the strongest module and quality as the weakest, though the score moves nightly and is not fixed. It holds no seat in our index and is not yet quoted in the diary's editions.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak quality reading persists as balance-sheet and earnings-quality inputs update, and whether the current momentum strength holds once the shares move further from their recent high.

Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.83%, quarterly · last 1.71 CAD on 2026-07-30

Dividends and capital return

What BMO.TO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 6.68 CAD per share · a 2.83% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +38.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 4.81 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 1.71 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-30
  • By calendar year 2025: 6.44 CAD · 2026: 5.05 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-01-30

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO)?

Bank of Montreal trades as BMO.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is BMO.TO in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Bank of Montreal is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does BMO.TO trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -3.4% vs the 50-day and +9.6% vs the 200-day average, 8.9% below the 52-week high and +43.2% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Bank of Montreal compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Banks - Diversified · Canada), Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO) sits 8.9% below its 52-week high, 3.4% below its 50-day average; Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) is 8.3% below, National Bank of Canada (NA.TO) is 13.9% below, Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO) is 4.7% below. Put any of them next to BMO.TO in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does Bank of Montreal do?

Bank of Montreal is a diversified Canadian lender with retail and commercial banking in Canada and the United States, alongside wealth management and capital markets arms. Its retail side covers everyday accounts, cards, mortgages and loans, while wealth management handles investing, insurance and retirement products for individuals and institutions. The capital markets arm underwrites debt and equity, advises on mergers, and runs trading desks across rates, credit, foreign exchange and commodities. Closelooknet's peer group draws on scored Financial Services names based in Canada, including Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Manulife Financial, Sun Life Financial, Power Corporation of Canada and IGM Financial; the market also names Toronto-Dominion Bank as a comparison.

Where does Bank of Montreal sit in the AI build-out?

Bank of Montreal carries no seat in our index; the diary places it in the Financial Services sleeve, within the Canadian banking sector alongside the country's other diversified lenders. It carries a Closelooknet score built across seven modules; momentum reads as the strongest module and quality as the weakest, though the score moves nightly and is not fixed. It holds no seat in our index and is not yet quoted in the diary's editions.

Does Bank of Montreal pay a dividend?

Bank of Montreal has paid 6.68 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.83% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.71 CAD on 2026-07-30. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BMO.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Banks - Diversified. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.