Currently, there are 912.28M common shares owned by the public and among those 911.76M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -5.85% and -31.74% over the past three months. BCE shares are trading -2.76% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -44.61% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $22.18 and touched a high of $41.77 over the same period. BCE has an average intraday trading volume of 3.78 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -3.43%, -12.87%, and -28.96% respectively.
Institutional ownership of BCE Inc (NYSE: BCE) shares accounts for 41.08% of the company’s 912.28M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $20.56B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.61. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 320.63, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.07. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.11% over the week and 2.24% over the month.
Analysts forecast that BCE Inc (BCE) will achieve an EPS of 0.72 for the current quarter, 0.66 for the next quarter and 2.88 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.69 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.69. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.76 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -12.30%, and -4.73% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of -7.01% over the next five years, compared to -6.75% over the past 5-year period.
CIBC on their part issued Sector Outperform rating on April 23, 2024.
