BCE Inc. (BCE) To Go Ex-Dividend on December 15th

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

BCE Stock Up 1.2%

BCE stock traded up C$0.38 during midday trading on Friday, hitting C$32.62. 5,214,254 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,737,459. The company has a market cap of C$30.42 billion, a PE ratio of 4.90, a P/E/G ratio of 4.67 and a beta of 0.51. The firm has a 50-day moving average of C$32.62 and a two-hundred day moving average of C$32.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 226.73, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a current ratio of 0.62. 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 posted its earnings results on Thursday, November 6th. The company reported C$0.79 earnings per share for the quarter. BCE had a return on equity of 1.39% and a net margin of 1.10%.The company had revenue of C$6.05 billion during the quarter. As a group, analysts expect that BCE will post 3.1120864 earnings per share 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.