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BCE has underperformed, down 14% this past year and nearly 35% in the last three, despite high dividend yields of 8.84%. Regulatory pressures and increased debt levels have raised concerns about dividend cuts, but payments have remained stable. Recent macroeconomic changes and strategic pivots suggest BCE is undervalued and can sustain dividends into 2025.

This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering large discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields about 3.4%, we present two other groups of five DGI stocks each, with the goal of moderate to high yields.

These stocks have yields between 5.9% and 8.5%.

MONTRÉAL, Oct. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - BCE Inc. (TSX: BCE) (NYSE: BCE) will hold its third-quarter 2024 results conference call with the financial community on Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 8:00 am eastern. Participants will include Mirko Bibic, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Curtis Millen, Chief Financial Officer.

Telcos are capital-intensive. It means they must spend considerable amounts of money to maintain and improve their networks. Since 2017, BCE has been on a streak of securing more and more debt. ATD reported a mixed quarter as revenue jumped by 17%, but EPS declined by 4%.

BCE's subsidiary BELL and MacLean forge a partnership to revolutionize mining with advanced technology and foster sustainability.

We had previously rated BCE as a buy, and expected it to do better than TELUS and Rogers Communications. The stock has done poorly but the options have offset the bulk of the pain. We examine the Q2-2024 results, the dividend coverage and also look at one of the preferred shares.

There are many stocks that yield more than 5% and can be safe investments to hang on to here. Investors may be discounting some stocks too much due to questions around their growth prospects.

Rose's Income Garden has been active for 2.75 years with 85 stocks and a current yield of 6.3%. RIG has a total return of 12.08% YTD, outperforming SPY by 6.77% since inception on November 22, 2021. Evaluation of 48 common stocks based on EPS yield, P/E, and Chowder# metrics to identify winners for investment.

BCE's second-quarter performance is affected by lower revenues from the Product segment and competitive pricing strategies.