telus
Telus Corporation (also shortened and referred to as Telus Corp, and stylized as TELUS) is a Canadian publicly traded holding company and conglomerate, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is the parent company of several subsidiaries: Telus Communications offers telephony, television, data and Internet services; Telus Mobility offers wireless services; Telus Health operates companies that provide health products and services; and Telus Digital operates worldwide, providing multilingual customer service outsourcing and digital IT services. Telus has a long history and is listed with the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:T).
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These top telecoms have cut their dividends to help pay down debt. The resulting stronger balance sheets improve their long-term prospects, particularly as competition for new subscribers intensifies.
BCE INC. $32 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 932.5 million; Market cap: $29.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 5.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) has 13.77 million wireless users across Canada. It also has 4.47 million high-speed Internet users and 2.16 million fibre-optic TV subscribers; it provides traditional telephone service to 1.57 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces. Its other operations include TV and radio stations.
BCE INC. $32 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 932.5 million; Market cap: $29.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 5.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) has 13.77 million wireless users across Canada. It also has 4.47 million high-speed Internet users and 2.16 million fibre-optic TV subscribers; it provides traditional telephone service to 1.57 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces. Its other operations include TV and radio stations.
BCE and Telus are leading competitors in their respective markets; you should look for that to cut your ongoing risk. We see both as buys.
BCE INC., $32.35, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 932.5 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 5.4%) purchased Ziply Fiber in August 2025, which offers high-speed Internet access and telephone services through a fibre-optic network to residential and business customers in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
BCE INC., $32.35, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 932.5 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 5.4%) purchased Ziply Fiber in August 2025, which offers high-speed Internet access and telephone services through a fibre-optic network to residential and business customers in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
ANDREW PELLER LTD. $7.98 (www.andrewpeller.com) is a hold. The wine producer has accepted a takeover offer from Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (Toronto symbol FFH). Fairfax will pay $8.00 a share in cash for the class A shares and $12.00 for the class B shares. Shareholders should tender their shares to the offer. Meantime, the company will continue to pay a quarterly dividend of $0.0615 a share until Fairfax completes the takeover; the annual rate of $0.246 yields 3.1%.
TELUS, $13.75, is cutting your quarterly dividend by 55.2%. Starting with the October 2026 payment, investors will receive $0.1875 a share instead of $0.4184. The new annual rate of $0.75 still yields a solid 5.5%.
Telus expects the lower dividend rate will save a total of $2.7 billion by the end of 2028. It will use the savings to pay down its long-term debt of $26.43 billion (as of June 30, 2026). That’s a high 120% of its market cap.
Telus expects the lower dividend rate will save a total of $2.7 billion by the end of 2028. It will use the savings to pay down its long-term debt of $26.43 billion (as of June 30, 2026). That’s a high 120% of its market cap.
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TELUS, $17.10, has formed an alliance with Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.—now developing quantum computing hardware, which uses electrons, rather than transistors, to carry out a vast number of calculations simultaneously. That makes them much faster than regular computers.
The partners plan to collaborate on advancing sovereign quantum computing infrastructure in Canada, and on exploring the development of a quantum datacentre. The collaboration brings together Xanadu’s work in photonic quantum computing with Telus’ experience in AI, datacentre operations, and its nationwide PureFibre network.
The partners plan to collaborate on advancing sovereign quantum computing infrastructure in Canada, and on exploring the development of a quantum datacentre. The collaboration brings together Xanadu’s work in photonic quantum computing with Telus’ experience in AI, datacentre operations, and its nationwide PureFibre network.
TELUS CORP. $18 (www.telus.com) is a buy. The telecom provider has formed an alliance with Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., which is developing quantum computing hardware that uses electrons, rather than transistors, to carry out a vast number of calculations simultaneously. That makes them much faster than regular computers. The technology should spur demand for Telus’s datacentre services. Telus is a buy.
BCE INC. $33 (www.bce.ca) is a buy. The telecom’s Ziply Fiber business recently completed a new high-speed subterranean link to the U.S. Midwest region. That will help it profit from growing demand for faster and more reliable data transfer services from operators of AI datacentres and financial institutions.
BCE INC. $33 (www.bce.ca) is a buy. The telecom’s Ziply Fiber business recently completed a new high-speed subterranean link to the U.S. Midwest region. That will help it profit from growing demand for faster and more reliable data transfer services from operators of AI datacentres and financial institutions.
TELUS, $16.70, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.6 billion; Market cap: $26.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 10.0%; www.telus.com) opened a new datacentre in Rimouski, Quebec in 2025 to run artificial intelligence (AI) software using advanced chips from Nvidia.
Telus has now teamed up with Fortanix, whose software helps businesses securely run AI programs. Most AI needs unencrypted data during the training period. However, Fortanix’s Confidential Computing platform keeps sensitive data encrypted when the AI is using it.
Telus has now teamed up with Fortanix, whose software helps businesses securely run AI programs. Most AI needs unencrypted data during the training period. However, Fortanix’s Confidential Computing platform keeps sensitive data encrypted when the AI is using it.
TELUS CORP. $17 is a buy for long-term gains. The telecommunications provider (Toronto symbol T; Income-Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.6 billion; Market cap: $27.2 billion; Dividend yield: 7.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.telus.com) last raised your quarterly dividend by 0.5% with the January 2026 payment, to $0.4184 a share from $0.4163. The new annual rate of $1.674 yields a high 9.8%.
However, to conserve cash for debt repayments and other uses, Telus will pause its previously announced plan to increase the annual rate by 3% to 8% from 2026 through to the end of 2028.
However, to conserve cash for debt repayments and other uses, Telus will pause its previously announced plan to increase the annual rate by 3% to 8% from 2026 through to the end of 2028.