BCE, Inc. (USA) (NYSE:BCE)

They have a monopoly in phone service in Canada.

Dividend is more volatile than I'd like, and not a lot of cash on hand. Lots of debt. I'd say no more than 0.5%, if that.

12/17

BCE, the largest telephone company in Canada also sells satellite TV, internet, wireless internet, cell phones and increased its interest in media (CTV) recently. it has a high dividend (>5%), its stock has increased about 5% in the last year and will continue to do well medium and in the medium and possibly long term as long as there are no mis steps by management. It can use its size to cross sell and marketing to gain deeper market share in its various markets. While land lines are slowly decreasing, it is holding its own and growing in its various other businesses. It has plenty of cash to keep increasing its dividend as it has in the past. I think the next 2-4 years will tell if it will be a market leader in the long term as well as the short and medium term. Telus and Rogers are two strong competitors that it must watch out for.

I joined Excel. Bought and sold stock at a profit. Now I am grateful. BCE and just started with a small company.

Nice growth, good dividend.

Significant growth from mobile division

Great Canadian Bell, good growth

Think its purchase of CBC will help, high dividends and growth.

Good solid telecommunications company. Will appreciate over the long term. Nice defensive stock too.

Powerful telecom, huge competitive moat, absolute money machine, great dividend payouts

Mobile business is good and more new features will increase margins

BCE is the AT&T of Canada in its most basic form. It's now going through its Iphone craze phase in Canada as they have it now on Bell Networks. So this stock is going to shoot up because of its demand. Perhaps it already has. Demand is strong for the Iphone.

Also the other side of the business is the home phone service and the internet providing and HDTV etc. They have some of the best services in the industry in the world, period.

I think this is an undervalued stock. It also has a very healthy dividend as well paying 6%. The stock has gone up since I bought it in the middle of December till now up about 13% and it's still going up.

I believe this stock is on a rally to $35.00-$40.00 because AT&T went through the same thing when they were releasing their Iphone.

Company is very healthy money-wise and has made some key partnerships with is peers such as Telus in working on their network infrastructure improvements together.

I see the Canadian market jumping on these new and improved phones that they have and they will sell another milllions+ amount of phones and continue on smiling.

BUY IT ON THE DIPS.

Great dividend, company has just increased dividend, buying back shares, and a very strong balance sheet.

This stock was chosen as part of a group of stocks based upon criteria which focused heavily on dividend yield, cash flow, and balance sheet information.

The stock dropped after the announcement of the unfavorable opinion by KPMG on their solvency post-acquisition. The opinion cause the buyout to fail. Had the opinion been reversed, this stock would have rallied. The rally will happy, albeit slowly. I say it will recover within 6 months.

O ntario Teachers’ Pension Plan did not go through
B others me that the arms in New York still have very large positions
A dividend would be nice
M ay even give a special dividend
A rbitrage is over

Since the collapse of a purchase bid by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund the stock has lost its general appeal. The report by KPMG revealed some inherent weakness in the stock's B/S and Income producing ability in the communication sector. In short the stock will probably experience some negative growth, lower dividend expectations and may have to cover some losses if the economy continues to falter. New lows are possible for 2009.

short-term- Hedge funds have to get out post deal collapse - well-run telecom will return to $25-28 in one year + 6% yeild