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BCE Inc (2)
Symbol BCE
Shares Issued 932,525,817
Close 2025-10-14 C$ 32.75
Market Cap C$ 30,540,220,507
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Globe says BCE's Bell won't raise dividend for 3 years

2025-10-15 08:13 ET - In the News

The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that Bell Canada is not planning to increase its dividend for the next three years, and instead will be focused on financing the company's emerging divisions and paying down debt. The Globe's Irene Galea and Andrew Willis write that during Bell's first Investor Day in more than a decade, Bell executives laid out plans to pivot the 145-year-old tech company toward high-growth areas such as artificial intelligence and fibre Internet expansion, while paying down the company's $32-billion long-term debt. For the short term, that means dividend growth is not a priority. "The opportunities we have to deploy capital, whether by deleveraging or funding growth, are more interesting to shareholders than bumping up the dividend a little bit more," chief financial officer Curtis Millen told The Globe after the event. The retail-investor stalwart stock now yields 5.3 per cent, still high among large-cap companies but down from 13 per cent this spring. In May, executives halved the payout in order to allocate that cash elsewhere. BCE stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange was down roughly 2 per cent Tuesday, and down 2.3 per cent year-to-date. It dropped 36 per cent in 2024.

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