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BCE, through its subsidiary FX Innovation, acquired HGC Technologies (HGC) in October 2024. HGC is a ServiceNow Elite partner based in Montréal, with operations in both Canada and the United States Key Capabilities and Potentials of HGC Technologies: ServiceNow Expertise: HGC specializes in ServiceNow implementations, offering a comprehensive suite of capabilities including application development, HR service management, and customer service delivery. This expertise allows them to provide customized integrations of the ServiceNow platform into their clients' ecosystems, accelerating business results. Process Automation and Cloud Technologies: HGC brings strong capabilities in process automation and cloud technologies, which are essential for digital transformation. Their solutions help businesses streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance customer experiences. North American Talent Base: HGC has a robust talent base in North America, which supports their growth and service delivery. This talent pool is crucial for expanding their reach and providing high-quality services to clients across the region. Strategic Alignment with FX Innovation: The acquisition of HGC strengthens FX Innovation's position as a leading ServiceNow partner. It enhances their ability to offer end-to-end ServiceNow-related services, AI-driven automation, and insights, helping clients drive business transformation. Expansion into the U.S. Market: HGC's existing U.S. customer base aligns with FX Innovation's strategic plans for expansion into the U.S. market. This provides immediate access to a new and growing customer segment, furthering BCE's growth ambitions. This acquisition marks another significant step in BCE's transformation journey from a traditional telecommunications company to a technology services leader, leveraging advanced digital and AI capabilities to support mission-critical business outcomes
This study points to the BCE growth strategy in Digital Services, also demonstrated by the two following acquisitions. Dividend seeking analysts don't care for growing the base for dividend and FCF growth for the future, speaking of shortsighted. So they trashed BCE valuations. BCE, through its subsidiary FX Innovation, acquired HGC Technologies (HGC) in October 2024. HGC is a ServiceNow Elite partner based in Montréal, with operations in both Canada and the United States. Then in Nov 2024, BC...
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Bell needs to learn from Telus and spin off the enterprise business of the company for IPO. Analysts estimate that the dividends are unsustainable, with very heavy selling pressure recently and no bid support at all. On the other hand, Rogers, Telus, and even Québecor, despite experiencing corrections, have buying interest.
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The new dividend reinvestment plan will keep the payout ratio below 100%. Dividend reinvestment gives a 3% discount on the share price. The shares will be coming out from the treasuries. At any time, BCE can also do a share buyback to refill the treasuries, especially around these low prices. IPO and spinoff are good ideas.
$BCE Inc (BCE.CA)$$BCE Inc (BCE.US)$ "Verizon Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Frontier Communications, announced in September 2024, this deal is valued at approximately US$20 billion. The acquisition will add 2.2 million fiber subscribers to Verizon's network, extending its reach to 25 million premises across 31 states and Washington, D.C" Frontier is about 35% of the 25M extended reach, or 8.7M. Compares to BCE paying ~US$5B for 1.3 existing fibre locations and more...
$BCE Inc (BCE.CA)$$BCE Inc (BCE.US)$ "Transaction enterprise value is approximately $7 billion Canadian, which includes Ziply Fiber's debt that will be rolled over and remain outstanding at closing. This equates to a multiple of 14.3 times Ziply Fiber's estimated 2025 adjusted EBITDA, when taking into consideration both the net present value of tax attributes and cost synergies. Assets like Ziply Fiber transact at premiums to legacy telco multiples given th...
$BCE Inc (BCE.CA)$$BCE Inc (BCE.US)$ "BCE Inc. paid approximately $3.95 billion to privatize Bell Aliant in 2014. For Bell MTS, BCE paid around $3.9 billion in 2017." "put Ziply Fiber size into better perspective for you, their fibre footprint is, in fact, larger than that of Bell Aliant and Bell MTS combined."...BCE ZIPLY call transcript. BCE paid C$5B, plus assuming C$2B debt in 2025 dollars. So BCE is paying l...
$BCE Inc (BCE.CA)$BCE, Canada's biggest telecom giant, is set to release its third-quarter financial report on November 7th, 2024. 📢 Wall Street's Expectations 📈 Wall Street's predicting BCE's revenues and profits will both dip compared to last year. This consensus forecast is pretty crucial, but short-term stock price movements mainly hinge on how the actual numbers stack up against these expectations. If the report beats expectations, the stock price might ...
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10.5% dividend rate + 2% DRP.
BCE, through its subsidiary FX Innovation, acquired HGC Technologies (HGC) in October 2024. HGC is a ServiceNow Elite partner based in Montréal, with operations in both Canada and the United States.
Then in Nov 2024, BC...
"Verizon Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Frontier Communications, announced in September 2024, this deal is valued at approximately US$20 billion. The acquisition will add 2.2 million fiber subscribers to Verizon's network, extending its reach to 25 million premises across 31 states and Washington, D.C"
Frontier is about 35% of the 25M extended reach, or 8.7M.
Compares to BCE paying ~US$5B for 1.3 existing fibre locations and more...
"Transaction enterprise value is
approximately $7 billion Canadian, which includes Ziply Fiber's debt that will be rolled
over and remain outstanding at closing. This equates to a multiple of 14.3 times Ziply
Fiber's estimated 2025 adjusted EBITDA, when taking into consideration both the net
present value of tax attributes and cost synergies. Assets like Ziply Fiber transact at
premiums to legacy telco multiples given th...
"BCE Inc. paid approximately $3.95 billion to privatize Bell Aliant in 2014. For Bell MTS, BCE paid around $3.9 billion in 2017."
"put Ziply Fiber size into better perspective
for you, their fibre footprint is, in fact, larger than that of Bell Aliant and Bell MTS
combined."...BCE ZIPLY call transcript.
BCE paid C$5B, plus assuming C$2B debt in 2025 dollars. So BCE is paying l...
Wall Street's Expectations 📈
Wall Street's predicting BCE's revenues and profits will both dip compared to last year. This consensus forecast is pretty crucial, but short-term stock price movements mainly hinge on how the actual numbers stack up against these expectations. If the report beats expectations, the stock price might ...
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