BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) Plans $0.44 Quarterly Dividend

BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 15th, TickerTech Dividends reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, January 15th will be given a dividend of 0.4375 per share on Thursday, January 15th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 5.4%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 15th.

BCE Stock Performance

TSE:BCE traded up C$0.38 during trading on Friday, reaching C$32.62. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 5,214,254 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,737,459. The firm has a market cap of C$30.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 4.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.51. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 226.73, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a current ratio of 0.62. The firm has a 50 day moving average of C$32.62 and a 200-day moving average of C$32.43. BCE has a 12 month low of C$28.73 and a 12 month high of C$36.80.

BCE (TSE:BCE) (NYSE:BCE) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 6th. The company reported C$0.79 earnings per share for the quarter. The company had revenue of C$6.05 billion for the quarter. BCE had a net margin of 1.10% and a return on equity of 1.39%. Research analysts expect that BCE will post 3.1120864 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.