BCE Inc (NYSE:BCE) has a beta value of 0.66 and has seen 1.24 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $20.01B, closed the recent trade at $21.71 per share which meant it lost -$0.27 on the day or -1.24% during that session. The BCE stock price is -66.61% off its 52-week high price of $36.17 and 6.59% above the 52-week low of $20.28. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 3.5 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 3.45 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that BCE Inc (BCE) is Hold stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 3.00. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 5 out of 10 have rated it as a Hold, with 4 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
BCE Inc (NYSE:BCE) trade information
Sporting -1.24% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the BCE stock price touched $21.71 or saw a rise of 2.07%. Year-to-date, BCE Inc shares have moved -33.41%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -1.33%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of BCE Inc (NYSE:BCE) have changed 0.82%. Short interest in the company has seen 51.16 million shares shorted with days to cover at 15.31.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $49.77, which means that the shares’ value could jump 56.38% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $47.0 while the price target rests at a high of $53.31508451. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -145.58% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -116.49% from the levels at last check today..
BCE Inc (BCE) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -6.07% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -44.80% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -6.37% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to decrease by -2.46%.
BCE Dividends
BCE Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-08 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 2.45 at a share yield of 11.27%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 7.07%.
BCE Inc (NYSE:BCE)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.03% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 45.66% with a share float percentage of 45.67%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with BCE Inc having a total of 655.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are ROYAL BANK OF CANADA with over 49.97 million shares worth more than $1.62 billion. As of 2024-06-30, ROYAL BANK OF CANADA held 5.4778% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BANK OF MONTREAL /CAN/, with the holding of over 37.53 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.24 billion and represent 4.1135% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund and VANGUARD TAX-MANAGED FUNDS-Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund . As of Jan 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 0.46% shares in the company for having 4.25 shares of worth $92.55 million while later fund manager owns 2.68 shares of worth $58.28 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 0.29% of company’s outstanding stock.
