Brokers Set Expectations for BCE Q1 Earnings

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE - Free Report) NYSE: BCE - Equities research analysts at National Bank Financial issued their Q1 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of BCE in a report issued on Wednesday, March 26th. National Bank Financial analyst A. Shine anticipates that the company will earn $0.62 per share 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 several other reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut BCE from a "neutral" rating to an "underweight" rating and decreased their price target for the company from C$35.00 to C$29.00 in a research report on Friday, February 7th. National Bankshares upped 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 report on Tuesday, March 11th. Royal Bank of Canada lowered their target price on shares of 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 upped their price target on shares of BCE from C$33.00 to C$33.50 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a report on Friday, February 7th. Finally, Barclays downgraded BCE from an "equal weight" rating to an "underperform" rating and lowered their price objective for the stock from C$41.00 to C$30.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 30th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of C$40.50.

BCE Stock Performance

TSE:BCE traded down C$0.13 on Friday, reaching C$32.90. 1,196,690 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,792,745. The firm has a market cap of C$29.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 110.37, a P/E/G ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 226.73, a current ratio of 0.62 and a quick ratio of 0.43. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of C$33.83 and a 200-day simple moving average of C$37.77. BCE has a 52 week low of C$31.43 and a 52 week high of C$49.13.

BCE Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 15th will be paid a $0.9975 dividend. This represents a $3.99 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 12.13%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 14th. BCE's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 1,338.57%.

About BCE

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.