BCE - BCE Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BCE in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BCE shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BCE, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for BCE's stock. Their BCE share price forecasts range from $47.00 to $70.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $63.18 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 37.1% from the stock's current price.
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BCE's stock was trading at $43.95 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BCE shares have increased by 4.9% and is now trading at $46.09.
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BCE saw a decrease in short interest during the month of December. As of December 30th, there was short interest totaling 17,300,000 shares, a decrease of 37.6% from the December 15th total of 27,720,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,650,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 10.5 days. Approximately 1.9% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 4th 2023.
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BCE Inc. (NYSE:BCE) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 4th. The utilities provider reported $0.82 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.65 by $0.17. The utilities provider had revenue of $5.84 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.94 billion. BCE had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.78% and a net margin of 11.85%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up .8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.59 EPS.

BCE declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 2nd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.713 per share on Monday, April 17th. This represents a $2.85 annualized dividend and a yield of 6.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 14th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.68.
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BCE (NYSE:BCE) pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.85%. BCE has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 116.88%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, BCE will have a dividend payout ratio of 105.47% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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BCE updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.32-$2.42 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $2.60. The company issued revenue guidance of $18.18 billion-$18.90 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $18.50 billion.

84 employees have rated BCE Chief Executive Officer Mirko Bibic on Glassdoor.com. Mirko Bibic has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BCE investors own include AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Enbridge (ENB), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), CVS Health (CVS), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Royal Bank of Canada (RY) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP).

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 DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale (0.32%), Montrusco Bolton Investments Inc. (0.20%), Capital Advisors Inc. OK (0.12%), Lincluden Management Ltd. (0.10%), Addenda Capital Inc. (0.07%) and LGT Capital Partners LTD. (0.06%).

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One share of BCE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.09.

BCE (NYSE:BCE) has a market capitalization of $42.03 billion and generates $18.59 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $2.27 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.31 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 49,781 workers across the globe.

BCE's mailing address is 1 carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell Building A 7th Floor, Verdun A8, H3E 3B3. The official website for the company is www.bce.ca. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (888) 932-6666, via email at investor.relations@bell.ca, or via fax at 514-766-5735.