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BCE (BCE) Reports Q1 Earnings: What Key Metrics Have to Say
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BCE (BCE - Free Report) reported $4.13 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 7.4%. EPS of $0.48 for the same period compares to $0.53 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -2.17% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.22 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.44, the EPS surprise was +9.09%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how BCE performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Postpaid: 320,250 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 357,978.
Wireline voice - Retail residential NAS lines: 1,772,611 compared to the 1,790,718 average estimate based on three analysts.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Total: 468,585 versus 496,869 estimated by three analysts on average.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Postpaid: -9,598 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 13,979.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Prepaid: 9,002 versus the three-analyst average estimate of -3,060.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Total: -596 versus 10,919 estimated by three analysts on average.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Postpaid: 9,520,838 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 9,544,415.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Prepaid: 767,140 versus 755,078 estimated by three analysts on average.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Total: 10,287,980 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 10,299,490.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn: 1.6% compared to the 1.6% average estimate based on three analysts.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Postpaid: 1.2% compared to the 1.2% average estimate based on three analysts.
Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Prepaid: 5.8% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 5.6%.
Shares of BCE have returned +1.2% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +11.3% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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BCE (BCE) Reports Q1 Earnings: What Key Metrics Have to Say
BCE (BCE - Free Report) reported $4.13 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 7.4%. EPS of $0.48 for the same period compares to $0.53 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -2.17% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.22 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.44, the EPS surprise was +9.09%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how BCE performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Postpaid: 320,250 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 357,978.
- Wireline voice - Retail residential NAS lines: 1,772,611 compared to the 1,790,718 average estimate based on three analysts.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Total: 468,585 versus 496,869 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Postpaid: -9,598 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 13,979.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Prepaid: 9,002 versus the three-analyst average estimate of -3,060.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Total: -596 versus 10,919 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Postpaid: 9,520,838 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 9,544,415.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Prepaid: 767,140 versus 755,078 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Total: 10,287,980 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 10,299,490.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn: 1.6% compared to the 1.6% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Postpaid: 1.2% compared to the 1.2% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Prepaid: 5.8% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 5.6%.
View all Key Company Metrics for BCE here>>>Shares of BCE have returned +1.2% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +11.3% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.