Is BCE Stock Finally a Buy in 2026? [Yahoo! Finance Canada]
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Earlier in 2025, I looked at BCE Inc. TSX: BCE ) through a very specific lens: tax-loss harvesting. In a non-registered account, selling below your cost base and using the capital loss to offset future gains can be a practical way to extract value from a bad stock pick. At the time, that framing made sense. It is now 2026, which raises a different question. Is BCE finally a buy today? That question comes after a major reset. In mid 2025, BCE cut its dividend in half, from $0.9975 per share to $0.4375. That move materially improved the company's financial flexibility by bringing its payout ratio down to about 43.1% of free cash flow. Previously, BCE was paying out more than it generated, which was not sustainable. That said, the company is not out of the woods. Investors are still digesting its acquisition of Ziply in the U.S., with no clear line of sight yet on whether it will be accretive. Debt-to-equity ratios remain elevated, and cost-cutting has been aggressive, particularly
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- BCE (NYSE:BCE) (TSE:BCE) had its "outperform" rating reaffirmed by analysts at Scotiabank.MarketBeat
- Monday's analyst upgrades and downgrades [Globe and Mail, The (Toronto, Canada)]Globe and Mail, The
- BCE Q4 2025 results and 2026 guidance to be announced February 5PR Newswire
- Top 100 Canadian CEOs now earn 248 times more than the average Canadian worker: report [BNN Bloomberg (Canada)]BNN Bloomberg
- BCE Inc. (BCE) Dividend De-Risked, BMO Capital Raises to Outperform [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
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- 11/6/25 - Beat
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- 11/18/25 - Form 6-K
- 11/12/25 - Form 6-K
- 11/6/25 - Form 6-K
- BCE's page on the SEC website