BCE (BCE) Q3 Earnings: Taking a Look at Key Metrics Versus Estimates

For the quarter ended September 2025, BCE (BCE) reported revenue of $4.39 billion, up 0.4% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.57, compared to $0.55 in the year-ago quarter.

The reported revenue represents a surprise of +0.96% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.35 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.52, the EPS surprise was +9.62%.

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.

As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.

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: 315,607 versus 350,352 estimated by three analysts on average.
• Wireline voice - Retail residential NAS lines: 1,766,361 compared to the 1,685,630 average estimate based on three analysts.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Gross Subscriber Activations - Total: 514,661 versus 544,918 estimated by three analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Postpaid: 11,511 versus 25,949 estimated by three analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Prepaid: 56,507 versus 44,649 estimated by three analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Net Subscriber Activations - Total: 68,018 versus 70,599 estimated by three analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Postpaid: 9,525,355 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 9,591,334.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Prepaid: 873,579 compared to the 861,931 average estimate based on three analysts.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Subscribers End of Period - Total: 10,398,930 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 10,453,270.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn: 1.5% versus 1.5% estimated by three analysts on average.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Postpaid: 1.1% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 1.2%.
• Mobile Phone Subscribers - Blended churn - Prepaid: 5.1% compared to the 4.9% average estimate based on three analysts.

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Shares of BCE have returned -3.6% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +1.3% 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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