BCE (BCE) Q2 Earnings: How Key Metrics Compare to Wall Street Estimates

While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.

Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.

Here is how BCE performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:

• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Postpaid: 309,481 versus 323,213 estimated by two analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Prepaid: 164,158 versus 144,933 estimated by two analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Total: 473,639 compared to the 468,146 average estimate based on two analysts.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Postpaid: 41,594 versus 33,530 estimated by two analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Prepaid: 16,033 versus 22,487 estimated by two analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Total: 57,627 versus the two-analyst average estimate of 56,017.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Mobile Connected Device Subscribers - Subscribers EOP: 3,393,596 compared to the 3,438,233 average estimate based on two analysts.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Prepaid: 771,245 versus 777,699 estimated by two analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Total: 10,380,270 versus the two-analyst average estimate of 10,378,660.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn: 1.4% versus the two-analyst average estimate of 1.3%.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Postpaid: 1% versus the two-analyst average estimate of 1%.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Prepaid: 5.6% versus the two-analyst average estimate of 5.3%.

View all Key Company Metrics for BCE here>>>

Shares of BCE have returned +2.8% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +3.3% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.

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