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TD, Toronto Dominion Bank (The)

Banks financial

A balance-sheet business, read on book value, net interest margin and credit losses rather than an earnings multiple.

Latest annual: FY2025 40-F · figures as filed, in CAD · US listing is the ordinary share
TD · Toronto Dominion Bank (The)
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
C$27.1B
+13.9% YoY · 3% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · FY2025, with 5-yr average
Revenue C$27.1B 5-yr avg C$24.6B
Return on equity 16% 5-yr avg 13%
Return on tangible equity 19% 5-yr avg 15%
Equity / assets 6.1% 5-yr avg 5.8%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

What moves the needle
Net interest margin, loan losses, and book value. A lender is read on the quality of its balance sheet, not an earnings multiple, and the worst year of credit losses matters more than the best. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Return on equity has hovered around the cost of equity (median 14%, above 12% in 8 of 10 years). A bank that earns above its cost of equity through the cycle compounds book value; whether this one did it by underwriting discipline or by reaching for risk is what the 10-K, and the worst years in the record, will tell you.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, charted

FY2016–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
1.7Bpeak FY2016
Revenue
C$27.1Blow FY2018
III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 40-F · source on SEC EDGAR →

Is it a good business?

  • Strong
    Net income C$20.5B ÷ equity C$127.8B
    Industry peers: median 10%
    What this means

    The bank's north star, what it earns on shareholders' capital. Cost of equity is roughly 10%, so a return durably above that builds value and below it destroys it. One year is noisy; the durability across a full credit cycle is what counts.

  • Very high (≥18%)
    Net income ÷ (equity − goodwill C$19.0B − intangibles C$3.4B)
    Industry peers: median 13%
    What this means

    The cleaner return, stripping out the goodwill paid for past acquisitions. This is the number a buyer of the whole bank actually earns on the hard capital.

  • Not enough data
    Industry peers: median 63%
    What this means

    Noninterest expense or revenue missing.

Is it sound?

  • Capital (equity / assets) 6.1%
    Modest
    Equity C$127.8B ÷ assets C$2.09T
    What this means

    A plain-English leverage read: how much of the balance sheet is the owners' own money. This is a rough proxy; the regulatory figure is the CET1 ratio, which is risk-weighted and reported in the filing. The point is the same, how much loss the bank can absorb before depositors are at risk.

  • Funding
    Not enough data
    What this means

    Deposits or total assets missing.

  • Credit cost
    Not enough data
    What this means

    Provision or net interest income missing.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

In its own filing Framed as a capability

The filing positions AI as something the company uses, not something it fears.

“Specifically in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, the Bank made the following progress: 1) implemented an enhanced, streamlined system and end-to-end process for submitting unusual transaction referrals for frontline colleagues to improve the accuracy and efficiency by which the…”

AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat, and the company is using it that way.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

What an owner would ask, FY2025

read the 10-K →
  • Which reported numbers are a judgment call?
    Management names Pension & retirement, Credit & receivables as critical estimates

    each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →

The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.

Peers, Banks

The same industry, side by side on the bank lens. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueROEROTCEEfficiencyNII / assets
COFCapital One Financial Corporation$53.4B8%12%54%6.0%
USBU.S. Bancorp$28.7B12%17%59%2.5%
PNCPNC Financial Services Group Inc. (The)$23.1B10%12%63%2.4%
TFCTruist Financial Corporation$20.3B8%11%63%2.7%
BKTHE Bank of NEW York Mellon Corporation$20.1B10%20%69%0.9%
STTState Street Corporation$13.9B10%15%74%0.9%
MTBM&T Bank Corporation$9.7B9%13%57%3.2%
TDToronto Dominion Bank (The)C$27.1B14%17%1.2%
Group median10%14%2.5%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

price / tangible book

Enter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Toronto Dominion Bank (The)'s US listing is the ordinary share itself; figures in this tool are translated at CAD 1 = $0.712 (2026-07-17, reference rate); the dollar quote then reconciles exactly. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed, in CAD.

A bank is worth a multiple of its tangible book value, and the multiple it deserves is set by the return it earns on that book. Type today’s price; we show what you would be paying against what Toronto Dominion Bank (The)’s record justifies.

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The assumptions

Tangible book / share, delivered7%/yr’20→’25

The justified multiple is (return on tangible equity − growth) ÷ (cost of equity − growth). A bank earning exactly its cost of equity is worth about one times tangible book; the premium above that prices each point of durable excess return. A higher cost of equity lowers the justified multiple for a bank.

Enter a price above to run it.

Price / tangible book
Justified by the return
Normalized return on tangible equity17%
Price / book
Earnings yield
P/E (3-yr avg ’23–’25)
Graham’s price gate

Graham applied the same standards to financial enterprises (Intelligent Investor ch.14): the 15× multiple cap on averaged earnings, and P/E times price-to-book at most 22.5. The gate marks the bargain-hunter’s floor, not a verdict.

Tangible book $75.1B on 1689M shares, a 17% normalized return on it. The dials set the multiple such a return would justify; your price sets the multiple you are paying. It assumes the bank keeps earning that return; a credit cycle, a rate shock or a bad acquisition changes it, which is what the record and the 10-K are for.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Toronto Dominion Bank (The) (TD), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/TD, data as of 2026-07-09.

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