Our investment case

We are the leading financial services group in the Nordics with a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies.

Nordea is listed at the stock exchanges in Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen and we have around 580,000 private shareholders.

Below you can find some of the key reasons why you should consider being one of them.

1. Nordea today

Market leading position in the Nordic area

Diversified across business areas

2. Market leading shareholder returns

+292%

Total shareholder return, September 2019 to October 2025

+25%

Annual total shareholder return, September 2019 to October 2025

Consistent, strong capital generation

3. Structurally attractive Nordic banking environment

4. Superior earnings growth and market-leading profitability

Superior EPS growth, driven by positive jaws

Resilient earning power with low volatility

 

5. Nordic Scale and modernising technology to outperform competition 

 

Our sustainability objectives:

Net-zero

emissions by 2050 at latest

40–50%

reduction in emissions across investment and lending portfolios by 2030.

50%

reduction in emissions from internal operations by 2030.

 

Strong progress since 2019

Reducing the bad

Progress

Target

-36% reduction in emissions in our lending portfolio

2030: 40-50%

-43% reduction in emissions in Life & Pension

2029: 40-50%

-44% reduction in emissions in our Asset & Wealth Mgmt

2030: 50%

-53% reduction in emissions from internal operations

2030: 50%

Increasing the good

Progress

Target

EUR 185bn sustainable financing facilitation

2025: >EUR 200bn

40% of each gender representation at the top three leadership levels: 41%/59%

2025: 40% 

86% of exposure to large corporates in climate-vulnerable sectors covered by transition plans 

2025: 90%

Double the net-zero-committed AuM - on track

by 2025

After visiting this page, is your perception of Nordea?