Research Analysts Offer Predictions for BCE Q1 Earnings

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) – Research analysts at National Bank Financial issued their Q1 2025 earnings estimates for shares of BCE in a report released 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 subject of several other reports. Scotiabank cut their target price on 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. JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded BCE from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from C$35.00 to C$29.00 in a research report on Friday, February 7th. National Bankshares lifted their target price on BCE from C$35.00 to C$36.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, March 11th. Canaccord Genuity Group increased their target price 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, TD Securities raised their price target on shares of BCE from C$31.00 to C$33.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, February 7th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of C$40.50.

BCE Stock Performance

TSE BCE opened at C$32.87 on Friday. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is C$33.84 and its 200 day simple moving average is C$37.96. The firm has a market capitalization of C$29.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 110.27, a P/E/G ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.48. 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.

BCE Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Stockholders 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 12.14%. 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.