National Bank Financial Weighs in on BCE Q1 Earnings

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) – Equities researchers at National Bank Financial issued their Q1 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of BCE in a research note issued to investors 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.

A number of other analysts also recently weighed in on BCE. Barclays downgraded shares of BCE from an “equal weight” rating to an “underperform” rating and cut their price target for the company from C$41.00 to C$30.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 30th. Scotiabank lowered their target price on shares of BCE from C$42.00 to C$40.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 7th. National Bankshares lifted their price target 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. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut shares of BCE from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating and lowered their price objective for the company from C$35.00 to C$29.00 in a research report on Friday, February 7th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada dropped their price objective 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. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have given a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of C$40.50.

BCE Trading Up 2.4 %

TSE:BCE opened at C$33.13 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 0.62, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 226.73. BCE has a 1-year low of C$31.43 and a 1-year high of C$49.13. The firm has a market capitalization of C$30.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 111.15, a PEG ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.48. The business’s 50-day moving average price is C$33.86 and its two-hundred day moving average price is C$38.07.

BCE Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 15th will be issued a dividend of $0.9975 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 14th. This represents a $3.99 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 12.04%. BCE’s payout ratio 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.