Ratings BCE Inc.

Equities

BCE

CA05534B7604

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44.59 CAD -0.73% Intraday chart for BCE Inc. -0.47% -14.53%

Summary

  • Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.

Strengths

  • Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
  • This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
  • There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
  • Analysts' price targets are all relatively close, reflecting good visibility on the company's valuation.

Weaknesses

  • As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
  • The company is in a hindered financial situation with significant debt and rather low EBITDA levels.
  • The company's enterprise value to sales, at 3.14 times its current sales, is high.
  • For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
  • For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.
  • Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.
  • The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.

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Sector: Integrated Telecommunications Services

1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
-14.53% 29.72B
B+
+9.65% 199B
B+
+5.25% 167B
C
+0.46% 116B
A-
-2.38% 89.84B
B-
+17.65% 72.93B
B-
+2.80% 58.42B
B
-5.07% 50.97B
B
-13.54% 40.2B
B
-34.49% 36.67B
C
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Financials

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Consensus

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Business Predictability

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Environment

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