National Bank Financial Forecasts BCE Q2 Earnings

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) – National Bank Financial issued their Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for BCE in a research report issued to clients and investors on Sunday, June 29th. National Bank Financial analyst A. Shine expects that the company will earn $0.72 per share for the quarter. National Bank Financial has a “Strong-Buy” rating on the stock. The consensus estimate for BCE’s current full-year earnings is $3.11 per share. National Bank Financial also issued estimates for BCE’s FY2025 earnings at $2.83 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $2.32 EPS.

Other equities analysts have also recently issued research reports about the company. National Bankshares set a C$35.00 price objective on BCE and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, June 6th. Royal Bank Of Canada lowered their price target on BCE from C$37.00 to C$35.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, May 9th. Desjardins raised their target price on BCE from C$36.00 to C$39.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, May 9th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on shares of BCE from C$28.00 to C$29.00 in a research note on Monday, May 12th. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group increased their target price on shares of BCE from C$31.50 to C$32.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, May 9th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating, one has issued a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, BCE has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of C$37.04.

BCE Stock Performance

TSE BCE opened at C$30.20 on Tuesday. The stock has a market capitalization of C$27.35 billion, a PE ratio of 101.32, 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 business has a 50 day simple moving average of C$30.15 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of C$32.05. BCE has a 1-year low of C$28.73 and a 1-year high of C$49.13.

BCE Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, July 15th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, July 15th will be issued a dividend of $0.4375 per share. This represents a $1.75 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.79%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 16th. BCE’s payout ratio is currently 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.