Belden - BDC Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Belden in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" BDC shares.
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4 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Belden's shares. Their BDC share price forecasts range from $76.00 to $88.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $83.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.6% from the stock's current price.
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Belden's stock was trading at $71.90 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BDC shares have increased by 10.4% and is now trading at $79.36.
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Belden saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,170,000 shares, an increase of 8.3% from the December 31st total of 1,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 268,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.4 days. Approximately 2.8% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 8th 2023.
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Belden will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 8th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Belden Inc. (NYSE:BDC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 2nd. The industrial products company reported $1.77 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.57 by $0.20. The industrial products company earned $670.49 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $634.29 million. Belden had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.35% and a net margin of 5.53%. The company's revenue was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.31 EPS.

Belden announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 30th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Thursday, January 5th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.25%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 14th.
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Belden (NYSE:BDC) pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.25%. The dividend payout ratio is 6.21%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BDC will have a dividend payout ratio of 3.12% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Belden issued an update on its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.60-$1.70 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $1.57. The company issued revenue guidance of $635.00 million-$650.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $631.71 million.

1 employees have rated Belden Chief Executive Officer Roel Vestjens on Glassdoor.com. Roel Vestjens has an approval rating of 100% among the company'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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (3.39%), Ziegler Capital Management LLC (0.35%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.22%), Comerica Bank (0.11%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.06%) and Yousif Capital Management LLC (0.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Anshuman Mehrotra, Ashish Chand, Doug Zink, John S Stroup, Jonathan C Klein, Judy L Brown and Roel Vestjens.
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Shares of BDC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of BDC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $79.36.

Belden (NYSE:BDC) has a market capitalization of $3.40 billion and generates $2.41 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $63.92 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.22 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 6,200 workers across the globe.

Belden's mailing address is 1 NORTH BRENTWOOD BLVD 15TH FLOOR, ST. LOUIS MO, 63105. The official website for the company is www.belden.com. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at (314) 854-8000, via email at investor.relations@belden.com, or via fax at 314-854-8001.