Brokers Offer Predictions for BCE’s Q1 Earnings (TSE:BCE)

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) – National Bank Financial issued their Q1 2025 earnings estimates for shares of BCE in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday, March 26th. National Bank Financial analyst A. Shine forecasts 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.

Other equities analysts also recently issued research reports about the stock. 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 for the company in a research note on Wednesday, December 18th. Barclays lowered 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. TD Securities upped their target price on BCE from C$31.00 to C$33.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, February 7th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded BCE from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating and lowered their target price for the stock from C$35.00 to C$29.00 in a report on Friday, February 7th. Finally, National Bankshares increased their price target on BCE from C$35.00 to C$36.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a report on Tuesday, March 11th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, BCE presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of C$40.50.

BCE Stock Down 0.8 %

Shares of TSE BCE opened at C$32.87 on Friday. The company’s 50 day moving average price is C$33.84 and its 200-day moving average price is C$37.96. 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 has a 52-week low of C$31.43 and a 52-week high of C$49.13. The company has a market capitalization of C$29.77 billion, a P/E ratio of 110.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.48.

BCE Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.9975 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 14th. This represents a $3.99 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 12.14%. 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.