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Belden Inc

BDC Technology Communication Equipment

Belden Inc’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.7 billion, up 10.3% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 11.6%, EPS grew 14.3%, free cash flow grew 55.7% and total debt fell 3.21%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years, operating cash flow growth for five; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

105.83 3.32 −3.04%
Market cap
$4.3B
P/E
17.0×
Fwd P/E
18.8×
Dividend yield
0.19%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
3.05
Beneish M
−2.57
Dividend safety
74/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total buys 6.00
Total sells 3.09
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — 1 — — — — — —
Sell 1 6 3 2 — 1 — — — — 1 —
Insider Ownership 1.71%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 4,270.00
Revenue 2,864.87
Net Income 244.14
Free Cash Flow 212.16
Net Debt 881.91
Current Ratio 2.14 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.89
P/E ratio 16.99
Fwd P/E 18.80
P/S ratio 1.44
P/B ratio 2.98
Past 5Y EPS Growth —
This Y EPS Growth 14.45%
Next Y EPS Growth 15.55% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y revenue growth 24.19% (at or above 10%: strong)
Next 5Y EPS Growth 13.91%

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 22.27%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 69.51%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 62.46%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 50.83%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 68.03%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.03
Annual Dividend Rate 0.20
Annual Dividend Yield 0.19%
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
2025 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2024 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2023 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2022 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2021 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2020 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2019 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2018 0.21
0.05
0.01
0.05
0.05
0.05
2017 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2016 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 597 370 390 349
Receivables 414 410 463 534
Inventory 367 343 402 421
Other 79 73 94 90
1,457 1,196 1,349 1,394
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 343 316 361 359
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
634 623 697 653

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 1.63% 9.16% 1.37%
Cash Flow 3.93% 15.40% 8.05%
Earnings 13.63% 0.00% (2.30%)
Book Value 4.36% 10.80% 3.39%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 696 750 — — —
’25 625 672 698 720 2,715
’24 536 604 655 666 2,461
’23 642 692 627 551 2,512
’22 610 667 670 659 2,606
’21 509 576 605 612 2,301
’20 464 425 476 388 1,752
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (19) 129 — — —
’25 7 82 105 160 355
’24 3 83 92 175 352
’23 (32) 87 105 160 320
’22 (58) 49 87 202 281
’21 (41) 68 75 170 272
’20 (52) 40 51 135 173
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (63) 89 — — —
’25 (25) 57 65 121 219
’24 (21) 61 67 116 223
’23 (46) 68 104 105 217
’22 (69) 31 110 148 220
’21 (53) 48 47 165 208
’20 (73) 22 33 104 86
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 1.30 1.74 — — —
’25 1.27 1.53 1.41 1.70 5.91
’24 0.90 1.19 1.30 1.42 4.80
’23 1.45 1.60 1.70 0.91 5.66
’22 0.79 1.31 2.23 1.42 5.72
’21 0.64 0.97 0.91 (1.11) 1.41
’20 (0.25) (1.52) 0.38 0.15 (1.23)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.3
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 36.51 64.60 37.79 40.67 25.54 40.18 47.89 60.55 71.20 83.18

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 81.33 86.85 87.15 64.33 56.94 68.87 82.83 99.13 131.82 133.77
People
People Employees 8,400 8,800 9,000 7,000 6,200 — 8,000 8,000 7,500 8,000
Revenue/emp, $m 0.28 0.24 0.24 0.30 0.28 0.00 0.33 0.31 0.33 0.34
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 2,357 2,087 2,166 2,131 1,752 2,301 2,606 2,512 2,461 2,715
Gross margin, % 41.64 38.44 38.32 37.23 32.85 33.54 35.15 38.01 37.47 37.98
EBT 126 98 230 152 91 227 317 286 228 267
EBT margin, % 5.37 4.69 10.62 7.15 5.18 9.85 12.18 11.38 9.26 9.83
Net income 128 93 161 (377) (55) 64 255 243 198 238
Depreciation 146 150 149 661 109 88 89 99 116 129
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 55.99 49.44 53.24 50.50 39.13 51.37 59.45 59.48 60.48 68.56
Earnings 2.67 1.38 3.10 (9.37) (1.23) 1.43 5.81 5.75 4.88 6.00
Cash flow 7.48 6.05 7.11 6.56 3.87 6.07 6.42 7.57 8.65 8.96
Capex (1.27) (1.50) (2.37) (2.61) (1.94) (1.44) (1.40) (2.44) (3.17) (3.43)
Free cash flow 6.21 4.55 4.74 3.96 1.93 4.64 5.01 5.13 5.48 5.53
Book value 34.72 33.99 34.11 22.89 16.91 21.34 26.09 27.61 31.82 31.93
Shares, m 42 42 41 42 45 45 44 42 41 40
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 28.74 57.25 13.43 0.00 0.00 45.97 12.54 13.41 23.03 19.46
P/S 1.37 1.60 0.78 1.09 1.07 1.28 1.23 1.30 1.86 1.70
P/B 2.21 2.32 1.22 2.40 2.48 3.08 2.80 2.79 3.54 3.65
EV/Sales 1.70 2.08 1.27 1.57 1.68 1.64 1.41 1.54 2.17 2.03
EV/FCF 15.33 22.58 14.29 20.10 34.17 17.82 16.75 17.04 22.91 24.07
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 315 255 289 277 173 272 281 320 352 355
Capex (54) (63) (96) (110) (87) (64) (62) (103) (129) (136)
Free cash flow 261 192 193 167 86 208 220 217 223 219
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 909 693 542 655 578 1,125 896 823 574 652
Total debt 1,620 1,561 1,463 1,439 1,574 1,460 1,161 1,204 1,130 1,286
Net debt 772 1,000 1,056 1,032 1,072 818 474 607 760 896
Shareholders’ equity 1,461 1,435 1,388 966 757 956 1,144 1,166 1,295 1,264
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 3.17 1.52 3.31 (11.01) (1.69) 1.95 7.74 7.58 6.04 6.91
ROIC 6.49 6.00 8.03 6.48 5.13 9.29 14.04 11.19 8.11 9.13
ROE 9.85 4.02 8.93 (33.61) (6.40) 7.46 24.25 21.02 16.13 18.56
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Belden Inc vs peers in Communication Equipment (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
VIAV Viavi Solutions Inc. $10.8B — (loss-making) 59.1× +52.53% (above 0%: growing) +250.00% (above 0%: growing) +6,100.00% (above 0%: growing) 59.06% 13.83% Compare
VSAT Viasat Inc. $9.3B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −1.24% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −31.14% (below 0%: shrinking) 35.70% 4.09% Compare
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. $9.0B — (loss-making) 202× +86.42% (above 0%: growing) n/m −191.62% (below 0%: shrinking) 27.72% (12.88%) Compare
BDC Belden Inc $4.2B 17.5× 18.8× +11.63% (above 0%: growing) +14.29% (above 0%: growing) +55.69% (above 0%: growing) 39.14% 13.23%
ONDS Ondas Holdings Inc. $4.0B — (loss-making) 19.8× +1,235.44% (above 0%: growing) n/m −1,000.26% (below 0%: shrinking) 43.13% (194.51%) Compare
EXTR Extreme Networks, Inc. $3.2B 75.6× 67.1× +10.28% (above 0%: growing) n/m −13.31% (below 0%: shrinking) 62.17% 6.22% Compare
DGII Digi International Inc. $2.8B 58.5× 48.2× +28.98% (above 0%: growing) +50.00% (above 0%: growing) +41.46% (above 0%: growing) 64.85% 16.51% Compare
VISN Vistance Networks, Inc. $1.4B 0.2× 9.4× −1.39% (below 0%: shrinking) +1,671.43% (above 0%: growing) −200.40% (below 0%: shrinking) 35.33% (2.78%) Compare
HLIT Harmonic Inc. $1.2B — (loss-making) 32.4× +53.55% (above 0%: growing) n/m +54.60% (above 0%: growing) 52.37% 17.71% Compare
Median of peers $3.6B 58.5× 48.2× +40.75% +250.00% −22.22% 47.75% 5.16%

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Belden Inc (BDC) key facts

  • Strength: Belden Inc’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.7 billion, up 10.3% from fiscal 2024.
  • Belden Inc (BDC) is a Communication Equipment company in the Technology sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • As of October 12, 2026, BDC traded at $105.83, a market capitalization of $4.3 billion.
  • Belden Inc pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share, a yield of 0.19%, with a payout ratio of 3.25%.
  • Return on equity was 18.6% and debt-to-equity 0.89.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 8 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 3.05 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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