TELUS CORP. $31 (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 654.1 million; Market cap: $20.3 billion; Priceto- sales ratio: 2.0; Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) plans to build a new 58-storey office tower, called Telus Sky, in downtown Calgary. In addition to offices, the building will include retail stores and residential units. Telus will be the main tenant, occupying 20% of the building’s overall floor space.
This project will cost $400 million. That’s equal to 1.1 times the $362 million, or $0.56 a share, that Telus earned in the three months ended March 31, 2013. The company expects to finish construction in the fall of 2017.
Telus is a buy.