Belden Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Belden in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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 saw a decrease in short interest during the month of February. As of February 12th, there was short interest totaling 968,300 shares, a decrease of 49.6% from the January 28th total of 1,920,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 292,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.3 days.
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Belden is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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Belden Inc. (NYSE:BDC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 9th. The industrial products company reported $0.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.77 by $0.13. The industrial products company earned $498.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $481.81 million. Belden had a negative net margin of 10.95% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.55%. The firm's revenue was down 9.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.20 earnings per share.
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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 17.1% and is now trading at $44.21.
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Belden announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 17th. Investors of record on Friday, March 12th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Wednesday, April 7th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.45%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 11th.
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Belden pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.45%. Belden does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Belden is 4.42%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Belden will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.33% 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 FY21 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 10th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.90-3.30 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.23. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.99-2.05 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.94 billion.

8 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Belden's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $62.00. On average, they expect Belden's share price to reach $44.06 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.3%.
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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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (10.91%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (8.93%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (5.49%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (4.41%), Boston Partners (3.32%) and Boston Partners (3.32%). Company insiders that own Belden stock include Biddle Neil, John S Stroup, Jonathan C Klein, Judy L Brown and Leo Kulmaczewski.
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BDC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Lapides Asset Management LLC, Voloridge Investment Management LLC, Boston Partners, Boston Partners, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Alliancebernstein L.P., and Aristotle Capital Boston LLC. Company insiders that have sold Belden company stock in the last year include John S Stroup, Jonathan C Klein, and Judy L Brown.
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BDC stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pzena Investment Management LLC, SummerHaven Investment Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Beese Fulmer Investment Management Inc., Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, and GSA Capital Partners LLP. Company insiders that have bought Belden stock in the last two years include Biddle Neil, and Leo Kulmaczewski.
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Shares of BDC 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 $44.21.

Belden has a market capitalization of $1.97 billion and generates $2.13 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $-377,020,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $4.52 on an earnings per share basis.

Belden employs 7,000 workers across the globe.

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]