BDC·Belden Inc.
BDC|Analyst Targets
BDC|Insider Trading
BDC|Fundamentals
BDC|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4'26 | $2.30 | - | - |
| Q3'26 | $2.28 | $2.26 | -0.8% |
| Q3'25 | $1.92 | $1.97 | +2.6% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4'26 | $980M | - | - |
| Q3'26 | $971M | $966M | -0.6% |
| Q3'25 | - | $698M | - |
BDC|Monthly Returns
Market Data
BDC Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 4.11B
- P/E ratio
- 16.8
- Day range
- $94.81 – $99.53
- News sentiment
- 59/100 · Neutral
- Analyst target
- $151.20 (+53.9%)
- Consensus
- Buy · 12 analysts
Price action on BDC is defensive - rallies are being sold rather than extended. At this size, a single catalyst moves the stock further than it would a larger peer.
Reverse DCF
What growth is priced into BDC?
At today's price, Belden Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 7.9% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 8.87% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at 1.8% a year, so the market is asking for 6.0 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis BDC looks priced above what its own growth record supports.
- Implied FCF growth
- 7.9%
- Growth trend
- 1.8%
- Growth gap
- +6.0 pts
- Verdict
- RICH
- Discount rate (WACC)
- 8.87%
- Beta
- 1.18
Behaviour On Record
What BDC's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 43.6% 77th pct
- Below its peak
- -30.3%
- vs 200-day average
- -11.0%
- Up days (1y)
- 51%
Belden Inc. is currently running 43.6% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against BDC's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 77th percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 31.9%.
BDC is trading -30.3% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -29.3%, and the deepest was -55.5% in 2018. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began, and where past declines also continued.
Price sits -11.0% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 21st percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year BDC closed higher on 51% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a falling streak.
On November specifically: over 13 years of records, BDC finished the month higher 9 of 13 times, with a median return of +3.4% and an average of +5.0%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +5.0% on average, its weakest March at -3.3%.
Overnight risk is measurable too: BDC has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 242 of 3,267 sessions (7.4% of the time), with the largest gaps running +26.6% and -12.0%.
All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-04, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against BDC's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of BDC's sector?
Belden Inc. sits in the Software sector, currently ranked 11th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging).
- Sector rank
- #11 of 12
- Sector state
- Lagging
- Sector rotation score
- 18
Analyst Consensus Estimates
What do analysts expect BDC to earn?
Analysts expect Belden Inc. to earn $8.66 per share in the fiscal year ending Dec 2026 and $10.03 in the fiscal year ending Dec 2027, from 5 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on BDC?
Needham most recently initiated coverage on Belden Inc. to Buy on Sep 23, 2026 with a price target of $140. Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.
- Latest action
- Needham: Buy
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 0
- Net rating momentum
- 0
Corporate Stakes
Which companies own a stake in BDC?
IES Holdings Inc. reports a stake in Belden Inc. on SEC Form 13F: 174.8K shares, about 0.42% of the company, worth $21.0M at the end of Q2 2026, a position it opened that quarter. At today's price that stake is worth $17.2M, about 0.29% of IESC's own market value.
- Holder
- IESC
- Shares held
- 174.8K
- Stake
- 0.42%
- Value
- $21.0M
Form 13F lists US-listed shares held at quarter-end and is filed up to 45 days later. Stakes in private companies are not on it. Value now and Change put those same shares, adjusted for any stock split, at today's price against their reported quarter-end value, so they do not reflect buying or selling since.
Earnings Release, Scored
What did Belden Inc.'s latest earnings release say?
Most important lines
- 1
Reached agreement to supply $100 million of fiber solutions to major US data center customer in 2027
New this quarter - 2
Our data center business reached an important milestone, with a signed agreement to supply $100 million of fiber assemblies in 2027.
New this quarter - 3
With this announcement, we now expect our data center business to grow by more than 50% next year.
New this quarter
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News & sentiment
What is the news saying about BDC?
BDC fell 13.8% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 44 and 93 from Oct 14 to Oct 22, then dropped to 62 on Oct 23.
- Oct 30 -4.6%same day: What Belden (BDC) Said on Its Q3 Earnings Call
- Nov 2 +4.7%
- Nov 5 -8.5%
Technical analysis
How strong is BDC's momentum right now?
On the daily chart BDC ranks at the 30th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bearish reading.
Institutional ownership
Are big funds buying or selling BDC?
57 of the 102 tracked managers added to BDC in their latest 13F and 38 trimmed. Together they own 37.3% of the company, worth $1.8B. Vanguard Portfolio Management and Vanguard Capital Management alone hold 10.8%.
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- $60.0M positionAdded 4.6% last quarter
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- $52.5M positionAdded 140.8% last quarter
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How has BDC done against its peers?
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