Belden Inc (BDC)
Technology · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Belden Inc trades at $107.93, which is 32% above the $73.69 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 46 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 16.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
BDC dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.150 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2024 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.200 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
BDC earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 5 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Belden Inc
Belden Inc. provides connection solutions to bring data infrastructure into alignment to unlock new possibilities for its customers. The company provides 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 local area networks, data centers, access control, 5G, fiber to the home, and building automation applications. It also provides power, cooling, and airflow management products for mission-critical data center operations; and end-to-end fiber and copper network systems. It also serves commercial real estate, education, financial institutions, stadiums and venues, military installations, and broadband and wireless service providers, as well as data centers, government, healthcare, and hospitality sectors. In addition, the company offers network digitization and automation solutions; 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. It sells its products to distributors, end-users, installers, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company was formerly known as Belden CDT Inc. and changed its name to Belden Inc. in May 2007. Belden Inc. was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
BDC passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
13 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$52.48M · 0.0% of book
- Marshall Wace, MARSHALL WACE, LLP$51.05M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$32.15M · 0.0% of book
- Steve Cohen, Point72 Asset Management, L.P.$26.96M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$21.35M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in BDC
We hold 7 disclosed trades in BDC by members of Congress and executive-branch officials. The latest 5:
- John Phelan · Executive branchSell · $250,001 - $500,000 · traded 27 Mar 2026 · disclosed 4 Jun 2026
- John Phelan · Executive branchBuy · $250,001 - $500,000 · traded 8 Jan 2026 · disclosed 5 Jun 2026
- John Phelan · Executive branchBuy · $250,001 - $500,000 · traded 8 Jan 2026 · disclosed 4 Jun 2026
- John Phelan · Executive branchSell · $250,001 - $500,000 · traded 27 Mar 2025 · disclosed 22 May 2026
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 16 Jun 2020 · disclosed 17 Jul 2020
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
BDC peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Communication Equipment), then in the same sector.
- MSI Motorola Solutions, Inc.
- NOK Nokia Oyj
- LITE Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- ERIC Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- UI Ubiquiti Inc.
- ASTS AST SpaceMobile, Inc.
- VSAT Viasat, Inc.
- AAOI Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
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Common questions
Is Belden Inc (BDC) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $73.69, BDC at $107.93 is 32% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own BDC?
13 of the institutions we track reported a position in BDC in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is BDC's P/E ratio?
BDC trades at 16.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Belden Inc (BDC) pay a dividend?
Yes. Belden Inc yields 0.20% at the current share price. It has paid $0.200 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 22 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its BDC data?
Fundamentals for BDC come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.