During the recent session, BCE Inc (NYSE:BCE)’s traded shares were 1.14 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.67. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $22.02, reflecting an intraday gain of 3.62% or $0.77. The 52-week high for the BCE share is $36.17, that puts it down -64.26 from that peak though still a striking 7.9% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $20.28. The company’s market capitalization is $20.30B, and the average trade volume was 3.18 million shares over the past three months.
BCE Inc (BCE) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.22. BCE has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 10 analysts who have looked at this stock. 5 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 1 suggest Overweight, and 4 recommend a Buy rating for it.
BCE Inc (NYSE:BCE) trade information
BCE Inc (BCE) registered a 3.62% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 3.62% in intraday trading to $22.02, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 2.71%, and it has moved by 5.51% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -34.37%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $49.77, which implies an increase of 55.76% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $47 and $53.31508451 respectively. As a result, BCE is trading at a discount of -142.12% off the target high and -113.44% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -44.80%. While earnings are projected to return -7.92% in 2025, the next five years will return -4.73% per annum.
BCE Dividends
BCE Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for BCE Inc is 2.85, with the dividend yield indicating at 12.96 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
The next largest institutional holding, with 37.53 million shares, is of BANK OF MONTREAL /CAN/’s that is approximately 4.1135% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $1.24 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of BCE Inc (BCE) shares are VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund and VANGUARD TAX-MANAGED FUNDS-Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund . Data provided on Jan 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund owns about 4.25 shares. This amounts to just over 0.46 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $93.93 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 2.63, or about 0.29% of the stock, which is worth about $58.1 million.
