Belden Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Belden in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" Belden stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BDC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Belden is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 27th 2021.
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Belden Inc. (NYSE:BDC) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 3rd. The industrial products company reported $1.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.93 by $0.28. The industrial products company earned $602 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $541.38 million. Belden had a net margin of 4.56% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.75%. Belden's revenue for the quarter was up 41.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.46 EPS.
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Belden's stock was trading at $37.77 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BDC shares have increased by 54.5% and is now trading at $58.34.
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Belden announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 19th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Wednesday, October 6th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.34%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 14th.
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Belden pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.35%. The dividend payout ratio of Belden is 7.27%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Belden will have a dividend payout ratio of 4.07% next year. This indicates that Belden will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Belden issued an update on its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $4.370-$4.570 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.680. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.32 billion-$2.35 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.17 billion.

3 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Belden's stock. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $68.00. On average, they expect Belden's stock price to reach $56.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.6%.
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1 employees have rated Belden CEO Roel Vestjens on Glassdoor.com. Roel Vestjens has an approval rating of 100% among Belden's employees. This puts Roel Vestjens in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

Belden's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.05%), Vanguard Group Inc. (9.60%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (9.23%), ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC (6.31%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (5.81%) and Pzena Investment Management LLC (4.56%). Company insiders that own Belden stock include Ashish Chand, Biddle Neil, John S Stroup, Jonathan C Klein, Judy L Brown and Roel Vestjens.
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BDC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including American Century Companies Inc., Pzena Investment Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC, William Blair Investment Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley. Company insiders that have sold Belden company stock in the last year include John S Stroup, Jonathan C Klein, Judy L Brown, and Roel Vestjens.
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BDC stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Royal Bank of Canada, Alliancebernstein L.P., Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Victory Capital Management Inc., Mutual of America Capital Management LLC, and Vanguard Group Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Belden stock in the last two years include Ashish Chand, and Biddle Neil.
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One share of BDC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $58.34.

Belden has a market capitalization of $2.62 billion and generates $1.86 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $-55,160,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $2.75 on an earnings per share basis.

Belden employs 6,200 workers across the globe.

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Belden was founded in 1902.

The official website for Belden is www.belden.com.

Belden is headquartered at 1 NORTH BRENTWOOD BLVD 15TH FLOOR, ST. LOUIS MO, 63105.

Belden's mailing address is 1 NORTH BRENTWOOD BLVD 15TH FLOOR, ST. LOUIS MO, 63105. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at (314) 854-8000 or via email at [email protected]