Research Analysts Issue Forecasts for BCE Q1 Earnings

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) – Stock analysts at National Bank Financial issued their Q1 2025 earnings per share estimates for BCE in a research report issued on Wednesday, March 26th. National Bank Financial analyst A. Shine anticipates that the company will post earnings per share of $0.62 for the quarter. The consensus estimate for BCE’s current full-year earnings is $3.11 per share. National Bank Financial also issued estimates for BCE’s FY2026 earnings at $2.65 EPS.

BCE has been the topic of a number of other research reports. Barclays cut shares of BCE from an “equal weight” rating to an “underperform” rating and lowered their target price for the company from C$41.00 to C$30.00 in a research note on Thursday, January 30th. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their price target on BCE from C$45.00 to C$41.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, December 18th. Canaccord Genuity Group increased their price objective on BCE from C$33.00 to C$33.50 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, February 7th. Scotiabank reduced their target price on shares of BCE from C$42.00 to C$40.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 7th. Finally, National Bankshares increased their target price on shares of BCE from C$35.00 to C$36.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, March 11th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, BCE presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of C$40.50.

BCE Trading Up 2.4 %

Shares of BCE stock opened at C$33.13 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day moving average of C$33.86 and a 200-day moving average of C$38.07. The stock has a market cap of C$30.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 111.15, a P/E/G ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.48. BCE has a 52-week low of C$31.43 and a 52-week high of C$49.13. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 226.73, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a current ratio of 0.62.

BCE Dividend Announcement

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.9975 per share. This represents a $3.99 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 12.04%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 14th. BCE’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 1,338.57%.

BCE Company Profile

BCE is both a wireless and internet service provider, offering wireless, broadband, television, and landline phone services in Canada. It is one of the big three national wireless carriers, with its roughly 10 million customers constituting about 30% of the market. It is also the ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrierthe legacy telephone provider) throughout much of the eastern half of Canada, including in the most populous Canadian provincesOntario and Quebec.