BCE Inc T.BCE

Dividend safety

[GreenMonster333]

I am fairly new to investing. I am wondering if the dividend of BCE should be safe over the next 5 years or so? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

[Quintessential1]

BCE is as blue chip as you can get in a canadian company.  They just met earnings expectations and a predictable ER is what you want in a reliable dividend payer. They are dipping now so it's a good time to buy before they announce their next dividend.  Expect a boost to the dividend in Q1 2022 and some share price growth from here. All just my opinion DYODD and GLTY 

[jx7000]

I, too, am looking to get back into BCE for their div stability and pretty good price appreciation. However, all this talk of inflation and interest rates going up in 2022 might put a damper on their stock price. What'ya think?

[JayBanks]

  So your talking about a very large picture issue that I'm not gonna be able to do proper justice, but I'll try and discuss a couple points. I don't feel interest rates will hurt BCE as much as it will hurt you and me and most of the rest of the buisness community. For several reasons but I'll hit a few here: Not all thier debt is dependant on floating rates - I have

[Quintessential1]

This stock is a safety stock and is one that investors gravitate towards when the economy looks like it is going bad.   You can watch this stock and as the market dips on bad news this one dips less and can rise as investors know their money is relatively safe as is their payout.  Look at the March 2020 covid drop and you will see that the share price on this stck only dropped 15

[Dibah420]

***************************************************************************************************************** Dividends are determined Q over Q by the Board. Because markets fluctuate day by and even minute by minute, there is no crystal ball that can look 5 years into the future. However, you have the benefit of looking BACK and seeing how consistently a company has maintained or even grown

[JayBanks]

As others have stated this monster is pretty much as strong as you can get for steady dividends in Canada. Payout ratio is usually a metric used for calculing safety and you should use that for most other companies, unfortunately BCE has convoluted math involved and 'Net Income' is not really a proper number for this stock, I'm not an expert by any stretch but I believe it's

[Dibah420]

I sifted the sedimate twice so it is now clearly sentiment.  Percentages remain unchanged. Cheere and happy holidays.

[JayBanks]

  Haha well played! Should have read 'Sentiment' my bad. If you can please sift and shift that for us holders if possible, I would like to see this return to past growth patterns. I like my 9.88 and 6.38 yeilds on cost as I hold this in 2 accounts, but I was after more stable price appreciation year over year coupled with the decent dividend growth profile.

[jx7000]

The ex-div date is the 14th of this month so if you haven't jumped in yet, it might be too late to get in on this quarter's div (I could be wrong on that).