NYSE:BCEBCE Stock Price, Forecast & News

BCE's stock was trading at $42.16 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BCE stock has decreased by 3.7% and is now trading at $40.58. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BCE in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for BCE.

BCE is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for BCE.

BCE will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, August 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

BCE Inc. (NYSE:BCE) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.80 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.24. The utilities provider had revenue of $5.68 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.65 billion. BCE had a return on equity of 18.24% and a net margin of 12.63%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down .9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.77 EPS. View BCE's earnings history.

BCE declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 8th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.5883 per share on Wednesday, July 15th. This represents a $2.35 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.80%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 12th. View BCE's dividend history.

10 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for BCE's stock. Their forecasts range from $58.00 to $65.00. On average, they anticipate BCE's share price to reach $61.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 50.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for BCE.

Press coverage about BCE stock has been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BCE earned a media sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about BCE.

BCE saw a increase in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 9,620,000 shares, an increase of 48.7% from the June 15th total of 6,470,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,390,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.9 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View BCE's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BCE investors own include AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), AbbVie (ABBV), Pfizer (PFE), Enbridge (ENB), Suncor Energy (SU), CVS Health (CVS) and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD).

BCE trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BCE."

BCE's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.17%), Addenda Capital Inc. (0.14%), LGT Capital Partners LTD. (0.07%), Hexavest Inc. (0.02%), Cardinal Capital Management Inc. (0.01%) and Nexus Investment Management ULC (0.01%).

BCE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Addenda Capital Inc., Chemung Canal Trust Co., Hexavest Inc., Gradient Investments LLC, and Fulton Bank N. A..

BCE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LGT Capital Partners LTD., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Exane Derivatives, Cardinal Capital Management Inc., Canandaigua National Corp, Nexus Investment Management ULC, Richard P Slaughter Associates Inc, and Forte Capital LLC ADV.

Shares of BCE can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of BCE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.58.

BCE has a market capitalization of $36.70 billion and generates $18.06 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $2.40 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.64 on an earnings per share basis. BCE employs 52,100 workers across the globe.

The official website for BCE is www.bce.ca.

BCE's mailing address is 1 carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell Building A 7th Floor, Verdun A8, H3E 3B3. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 514-870-8777 or via email at [email protected]