Belden is a communication equipment business based in the US. Belden shares (BDC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Belden employs 8,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.3 billion.
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| Latest market close | $102.45 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $60.44 - $108.65 |
| 50-day moving average | $96.75 |
| 200-day moving average | $86.38 |
| Wall St. target price | $118.00 |
| PE ratio | 22.7771 |
| Dividend yield | $0.2 (0.19%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $4.71 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $102.45 from 2024-09-04
| 1 week (2024-08-29) | -4.29% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-08-05) | 6.50% |
| 3 months (2024-06-05) | 5.92% |
| 6 months (2024-03-05) | 17.70% |
| 1 year (2023-09-05) | 8.00% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-09-02) | 59.60% |
| 3 years (2021-09-03) | 75.22% |
| 5 years (2019-09-05) | 115.32% |
Valuing Belden stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Belden's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Belden's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 23x. In other words, Belden shares trade at around 23x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Belden's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.14. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Belden's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Belden's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $362.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Belden's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $2.3 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 11.44% |
| Gross profit TTM | $926.3 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.05% |
| Return on equity TTM | 16.55% |
| Profit margin | 8.51% |
| Book value | $29.96 |
| Market Capitalization | $4.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 3.34% of net profits
Recently Belden has paid out, on average, around 3.34% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.19% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Belden shareholders could enjoy a 0.19% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Belden's case, that would currently equate to about $0.2 per share.
While Belden's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Belden is investing more in its future growth.
Belden's most recent dividend payout was on 7 October 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 11 September 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Belden's shares were split on a 1:2 basis on 15 July 2004. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Belden shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 100% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Belden shares which in turn could have impacted Belden's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Belden's shares have ranged in value from as little as $60.4376 up to $108.645. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Belden's is 1.065. This would suggest that Belden's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Belden Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a portfolio of signal transmission solutions for mission critical applications in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates in two segments, Enterprise Solutions and Industrial Automation Solutions. The Enterprise Solutions segment offers copper cable and connectivity solutions, fiber cable and connectivity solutions, interconnect panels, racks and enclosures, and signal extension and matrix switching systems for use in applications, such as local area networks, data centers, access control, 5G, fiber to the home, and building automation. It also provides power, cooling, and airflow management products for mission-critical data center operations; and end-to-end fiber and copper network systems. This segment serves commercial real estate, education, financial, stadiums and venues, military installations, and broadband and wireless service providers, as well as data centers, governments, healthcare, and hospitality sectors. The Industrial Automation Solutions segment offers network infrastructure and digitization solutions; secure networks for the digitization and automation of industries and infrastructure; and products and solutions covering various aspects of data handling, including acquisition, transmission, orchestration, and management for applications in discrete automation, process automation, energy, and mass transit.
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