Zacks Research Brokers Reduce Earnings Estimates for BCE

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) – Zacks Research reduced their Q3 2025 earnings estimates for shares of BCE in a research note issued on Tuesday, February 25th. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now anticipates that the company will earn $0.70 per share for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $0.77. The consensus estimate for BCE’s current full-year earnings is $3.11 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for BCE’s Q3 2025 earnings at $0.70 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.72 EPS and Q4 2025 earnings at $0.72 EPS.

Other research analysts have also issued research reports about the stock. Canaccord Genuity Group cut their price target on shares of BCE from C$41.00 to C$37.50 in a report on Friday, November 8th. Royal Bank of Canada cut their target price on shares of BCE from C$45.00 to C$41.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, December 18th. Scotiabank reduced their target price on shares of BCE from C$42.00 to C$40.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 7th. Canaccord Genuity Group lifted their target price on shares of BCE from C$33.00 to C$33.50 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 7th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered shares of BCE from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating and reduced their target price for the company from C$35.00 to C$29.00 in a report on Friday, February 7th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have issued a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, BCE has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of C$40.42.

BCE Trading Down 1.1 %

TSE BCE opened at C$33.42 on Friday. BCE has a 12 month low of C$31.43 and a 12 month high of C$50.58. The company has a 50-day moving average of C$33.58 and a 200-day moving average of C$39.86. 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 company has a market cap of C$30.27 billion, a P/E ratio of 112.12, a P/E/G ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.48.

BCE Cuts Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Investors of record on Wednesday, January 15th were paid a dividend of $0.9975 per share. This represents a $3.99 annualized dividend and a yield of 11.94%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, December 16th. BCE’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 1,338.57%.

About BCE

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.