—
C+
C+ The full Closelook — membership. Open the C+ overview

BCE Inc (BCE) — chart, structure and Closelook read

Home› Indices›
Pick a ticker to load its detail page.

Company snapshot — BCE Inc

BCE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
BCE runs Canada's Bell network, selling mobile plans, home internet, television and business connectivity, plus a US wireline arm and a media unit that owns television, radio and out-of-home advertising assets. It serves households, small firms and large enterprises directly, and also wholesales capacity to other carriers and resellers. The company is headquartered in Verdun, Canada, and trades in the US as BCE.
Where it sits in the stack
BCE carries no seat in our index; it sits in the diary's Communication Services sector rather than any layer of the AI build-out stack. Its business is regulated telecom infrastructure and media distribution, not chip design, data-centre hardware or cloud capacity, so it stands outside the sleeves the diary tracks for the build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with scored Communication Services names based in the US, including Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Reddit and Chunghwa Telecom; the market also compares it with AT&T as a fellow national carrier.
Why Closelook tracks it
BCE holds no Rubin or Halo seat and carries no quotes or mentions in the diary's editions. It does carry a Closelook composite score, with valuation the strongest module and momentum the weakest.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak momentum reading persists as the stock trades further below its recent highs, and whether the valuation strength holds if that trend continues.

BCE Inc (BCE) trades on US exchanges, classified under Communication Services.

The Closelook company score reads 46/100 composite (momentum 26, quality 58, valuation 83) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for BCE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Telecom Services · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Telecom Services · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against BCE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 5.84%, quarterly · buybacks 182 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What BCE pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.27 USD per share · a 5.84% yield on the 2026-09-22 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-22
  • Change on the year −4.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.33 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.32 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.64 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.96 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-14
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 2.18 bn USD 49% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 182 m USD 0.9% of today's market value
  • Share count +1.8% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 2.36 bn USD · 72% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 66/100 · S&P 500 fund at 64, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-22
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-22
  • Sector × region Communication services in US: −0.1% week · +2.2% month · +6.2% quarter · −2.5% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLC.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-22
  • Sovereign pressure Index -0.03 · down 0.40 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-22

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-23

Quick answers

What is BCE Inc (BCE)?

BCE Inc trades as BCE on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Communication Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-23.

Is BCE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — BCE Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-23.

What is BCE Inc's Closelook composite score?

46 out of 100, with momentum 26, quality 58 and valuation 83 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-23. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does BCE trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -4.2% vs the 50-day and -7.9% vs the 200-day average, 16.9% below the 52-week high and +4% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 54 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-22 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does BCE Inc do?

BCE runs Canada's Bell network, selling mobile plans, home internet, television and business connectivity, plus a US wireline arm and a media unit that owns television, radio and out-of-home advertising assets. It serves households, small firms and large enterprises directly, and also wholesales capacity to other carriers and resellers. The company is headquartered in Verdun, Canada, and trades in the US as BCE. Closelook's peer group places it with scored Communication Services names based in the US, including Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Reddit and Chunghwa Telecom; the market also compares it with AT&T as a fellow national carrier.

Where does BCE Inc sit in the AI build-out?

BCE carries no seat in our index; it sits in the diary's Communication Services sector rather than any layer of the AI build-out stack. Its business is regulated telecom infrastructure and media distribution, not chip design, data-centre hardware or cloud capacity, so it stands outside the sleeves the diary tracks for the build-out. BCE holds no Rubin or Halo seat and carries no quotes or mentions in the diary's editions. It does carry a Closelook composite score, with valuation the strongest module and momentum the weakest.

Does BCE Inc pay a dividend?

BCE Inc has paid 1.27 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 5.84% on the 2026-09-22 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.32 USD on 2026-09-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 2.18 bn USD in dividends and bought back 182 m USD of its own shares, 72% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 1.8% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BCE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Telecom Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.