BCE Inc operates in the Telephone communications, exc. radio sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares BCE Inc. with three other
telecommunications providers in North America:
Lumen Technologies Inc
of UNITED STATES
(2020
sales of $20.71 billion
of which 28%
was Enterprise),
Altice Usa Inc
of UNITED STATES
($9.89 billion
of which 37%
was Broadband), and
Level 3 Parent LLC
which is
also
based in UNITED STATES
($7.93 billion
of which 45%
was IP and Data Services).
Sales Analysis.
During the second
quarter of 2021, sales at BCE Inc. totalled
C$5.70 billion.
This is
an increase of 6.4%
from the C$5.35 billion in sales at the company during the second quarter of 2020.
This was the largest same quarter increase in sales since the second
quarter of 2017.
During the first two
quarters of 2021, sales totalled C$11.40 billion, which is
3.7% higher
than through the first two quarters of 2020.
Sales at BCE Inc. appear to have some seasonality: during each of the previous 9
years, sales have been highest during the fourth quarter, which has accounted for
between 25.8% and 26.7%
of the annual
sales.
BCE Inc. reported sales of C$22.88 billion (US$18.09 billion)
for the
year ending
December of 2020.
This
represents
a
decrease of 4.5%
versus 2019, when the company's sales were C$23.96 billion.
The sales level in 2020 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2015, BCE Inc. had sales
of C$21.51 billion.
Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 15.7% decline
in Bell Media, from C$2.81 billion to C$2.37 billion.
There were also decreases in sales in
Bell Wireline (down 1.5% to C$11.88 billion)
and
Bell Wireless (down 5.0% to C$8.63 billion)
.