BCE Inc (BCE) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $37.01, with 5.28 million shares of worth about $195.41 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -10.17% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -0.22%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 912.30M shares, out of which, 911.78M shares are available for trading.
However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 37.51, or with a loss of -0.22%. Stock saw a price change of -6.04% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -10.65%. Year-to-date (YTD), BCE shares are showing a performance of -6.02% which decreased to -19.25% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $36.15 but also hit the highest price of $48.38 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for BCE Inc shares is 1.94 million. The stock is currently trading -7.45% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -7.51% for SMA50 and it goes to -11.13% lower than SMA200.
BCE Inc (NYSE: BCE) currently have 912.30M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 45.69% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $33.76B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.61. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 21.94, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.69 in the same period. Its PEG reads 9.54 and has Quick Ratio of 0.56 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.79. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for BCE, volatility over the week remained 2.47% while standing at 1.78% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that BCE Inc (BCE) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.55 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.59 and it is $2.38 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.52 which is $0.61 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.64 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -4.38% while it is estimated to increase by 3.53% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 2.30% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -6.75% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
