NYSE:BDCBelden Stock Price, Forecast & News

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 (WHO). Since then, BDC stock has decreased by 4.8% and is now trading at $35.97.
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9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Belden in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 2 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Belden is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 4th 2020.
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Belden Inc. (NYSE:BDC) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 29th. The industrial products company reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.27 by $0.19. The industrial products company had revenue of $424.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $410.19 million. Belden had a positive return on equity of 16.39% and a negative net margin of 25.43%. Belden's revenue for the quarter was down 33.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.39 earnings per share.
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Belden announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 22nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 18th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Thursday, July 9th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.56%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, June 17th.
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Belden declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, November 29th 2018, which permits the company to buyback $300,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy up to 13.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

9 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Belden's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $62.00. On average, they anticipate Belden's stock price to reach $41.94 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.6% from the stock's current price.
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Media coverage about BDC stock has been trending very positive on Saturday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. 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. Belden earned a media sentiment score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.
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Belden saw a increase in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 3,600,000 shares, an increase of 22.0% from the June 15th total of 2,950,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 427,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.4 days.
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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 shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.34%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.68%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (2.65%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (1.38%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.34%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.07%). Company insiders that own Belden stock include Biddle Neil, Henk Derksen, John S Stroup, Leo Kulmaczewski, Paul Keith Turner and Roel Vestjens.
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BDC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vanguard Group Inc., Prudential PLC, LSV Asset Management, Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Dupont Capital Management Corp, UBS Group AG, and Balyasny Asset Management LLC.
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BDC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, Macquarie Group Ltd., State of Tennessee Treasury Department, and Lapides Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Belden stock in the last two years include Biddle Neil, Henk Derksen, John S Stroup, Leo Kulmaczewski, and Roel Vestjens.
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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 Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of BDC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $35.97.

Belden has a market capitalization of $1.60 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'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]