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BANK OF MONTREAL

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BANK OF MONTREAL

BMO·NYSE·Finance·CIK 0000927971

Bank of Montreal provides a range of financial services, primarily across North America. The company operates through four main business segments: Canadian P&C, U.S P&C, BMO Wealth Management, and BMO Capital Markets. Its personal banking offerings include deposits, home lending, consumer credit, small business lending, credit cards, cash management, and financial and investment advice. For commercial clients, it provides various financing options, treasury and payment solutions, and risk management products. The company also offers investing, banking, and wealth management advisory services, digital investing services, and financial solutions for individuals, families, and businesses. It delivers investment management services to institutional, retail, and high net worth investors, alongside diversified insurance and wealth and pension de-risking solutions. Additionally, Bank of Montreal provides individual life, critical illness, and annuity products, segregated funds, and group creditor and travel insurance. Its capital markets activities include debt and equity capital-raising, loan origination and syndication, balance sheet management, treasury management, mergers and acquisitions advice, restructurings and recapitalizations, trade finance, and risk mitigation services. The company also offers research and access to financial markets for institutional, corporate, and retail clients through sales and trading solutions related to debt, foreign exchange, interest rates, credit, equities, securitization, and commodities. It provides new product development, origination, risk management, and advisory services for hedging strategies, including interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and commodities prices, along with funding and liquidity management services. Bank of Montreal was founded in 1817 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

BANK OF MONTREAL (NYSE:BMO) is a publicly traded company in the Finance sector. Wiseek has independently scored 17 items for BMO at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-09-16, rated 7/10. Across its 17 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 9/10, with 8 rated 8 or above. Recent SEC coverage for BMO spans 6-K, FWP.

Recent high-impact activity:

  • BMO Raises US$1B in 7.375% NVCC Capital Notes to Bolster Tier 1 Capital
  • BMO Q3 Earnings: Adjusted EPS Up 22% Despite C$962M Goodwill Charge
  • BMO to Sell Moneris Stake to Francisco Partners for ~$1B, Expecting $600M After-Tax Gain
  • BMO to Acquire Australia-Based Capital Markets Business, Bolstering Global Metals & Mining Leadership
  • BMO to Redeem $1 Billion Subordinated Notes Due 2031

Financial Snapshot

Fiscal year ended October 31, 2025
Cash & Equivalents
$67.48B
Debt / Equity
0.00×
Source: 40-F · filed 2025-12-17 · accession 0001193125-25-321328

Short Interest & Short Volume

7.10 days to cover

FINRA reported short interest of 4,466,213 shares in BMO as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, a 23.4% decrease from the prior period — about 7.1 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 2, 2026, 94.2% of BMO volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.

Short interest (bi-monthly positions)4,466,213 shares as of September 15, 2026
Change vs prior period▼ 23.4%
Days to cover7.10 at avg daily volume of 629,326
Daily short volume (FINRA facilities)94.2% of 1,629,612 shares on October 2, 2026
5-day average short volume86.7%

Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.

Dilution Risk

Low risk

Filing-implied dilution signals for BMO, detected from its recent SEC filings · based on capital-structure filings through 2026-10-02.

1 recent capital raise

Structured Note Offering · Return Profile

A filing-implied signal, not a realized share count. How Wiseek tracks dilution →

Insider Transactions

BMO files as a Foreign Private Issuer (FPI). Under SEC Exchange Act Section 16(a), officers, directors, and 10% owners of FPIs are exempt from Form 4 insider-transaction reporting requirements. Comparable disclosures, when applicable, appear in the company's Form 20-F (annual) or Form 6-K (interim) filings on SEC EDGAR.

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$165.7
52-week range · as of 2026-09-16 $119.84 – $187.22
Market cap
$115.13B
Volume
2.4M (3.1× avg)
3-mo avg 789.9K
Live data · 2026-10-05 03:51 UTC · Market closed

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BMO
Sep 16, 2026, 4:05 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $172.60
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: -$6.90 (-4%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Aug 25, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $171.69
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: -$5.99 (-3%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Aug 10, 2026, 6:09 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $181.92
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: -$16.22 (-9%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Jun 29, 2026, 6:48 PM EDT
Source: PR Newswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $176.08
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: -$10.38 (-6%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Jun 15, 2026, 5:10 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $168.40
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: -$2.70 (-2%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Jun 02, 2026, 5:13 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $162.90
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$2.80 (+2%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
May 28, 2026, 5:20 PM EDT
Filing Type: FWP
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $161.84
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$3.86 (+2%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
May 27, 2026, 12:08 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
9
Price at Filing: $162.11
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$3.59 (+2%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
May 27, 2026, 12:02 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
9
Price at Filing: $162.15
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$3.55 (+2%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
May 27, 2026, 6:01 AM EDT
Source: PR Newswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $165.87
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: -$0.170 (-0.10%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
May 11, 2026, 5:57 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
9
Price at Filing: $152.90
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$12.80 (+8%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Mar 19, 2026, 4:29 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $136.62
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$29.08 (+21%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Mar 11, 2026, 5:08 PM EDT
Filing Type: FWP
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $142.04
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$23.66 (+17%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Feb 25, 2026, 12:09 PM EST
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $148.71
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$16.99 (+11%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Feb 25, 2026, 12:03 PM EST
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $148.82
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$16.88 (+11%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Jan 14, 2026, 4:12 PM EST
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $133.26
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$32.44 (+24%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
BMO
Jan 07, 2026, 5:10 PM EST
Filing Type: FWP
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $132.98
Real-time Price: $165.70 info
Change: +$32.72 (+25%) info
Market Cap: $115.13B info
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