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Alex Zhao
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

BCE Saw Continued Strength in Wireless While Cost Controls Helped Improve Margin; Shares Overvalued

BCE’s third-quarter results slightly exceeded our expectations on strong performance in wireless and flattish decline in wireline. The firm’s wireless business benefited from continued expansion of its postpaid customer base at the fastest pace in nearly two years (107,000 net additions) and strong growth in average revenue per user. The wireline business saw decline in legacy phone and satellite TV business that offsets continued growth in broadband Internet and TV. However, growth in IP TV and...
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BCE Inc.

BCE is a telecommunications and media company providing wireless, wireline, Internet and television (TV) services to residential, business and wholesale customers in Canada. As of Dec 31 2017, Co. operated three segments: Bell Wireless, which provides wireless voice and data communications products and services; Bell Wireline, which provides data, Satellite TV service and connectivity, and includes Co.'s wholesale business, which buys and sells local telephone, long distance, data and other services from or to resellers and other carriers; and Bell Media, which provides conventional, specialty and pay TV, digital media and radio broadcasting services and out of home advertising services.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Alex Zhao

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