BCE INC. vs T-Mobile US, Inc., two Telecom stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Neither carrier's subscriber growth prints here, but the multiples assign it all to one side: T-Mobile at 19.4 times earnings is priced as the North American carrier that still grows, BCE at a headline 4.6 times as one that does not (a figure that low beside a 26.6% net margin says a one-time gain is doing the arithmetic; the durable read is the 11.4% free-cash yield). T-Mobile's economics are clean and mid-pack, a 19.5% operating margin, an 18.9% return on equity, a 9% free-cash yield with a young 2.1% dividend. The pair prices growth against yield inside one industry: the grower at four times the multiple, the yielder with the fatter current cash.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | BCE | TMUS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $22.92 | $182.63 |
| Market cap | $21.3B | $201.3B |
| Sector | Telecom | Telecom |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | -4.3% |
| P/E | 4.6 | 19.4 |
| P/B | 1.24 | 3.60 |
| P/S | 1.18 | 2.22 |
| EV/EBITDA | 5.5 | 6.2 |
| Revenue growth | +1.1% | +9.4% |
| Operating margin | — | 19.5% |
| Net margin | 26.6% | 11.7% |
| Return on equity | 27.9% | 18.9% |
| Return on assets | 8.1% | 4.9% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 23.2% |
| FCF yield | 11.4% | 9.0% |
| Dividend yield | — | 2.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| Current ratio | 0.58 | 1.09 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 0.47 | 6.65 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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