Telus Corp.
Toronto symbol T.A, provides local and long distance telephone service in B.C., Alberta and parts of Quebec, and wireless service across Canada.
In the past few years, Telus has invested huge sums in its wireless and Internet networks. Those improvements have helped it compete, not only with BCE and Rogers, but with Shaw Communications’ lower-priced Freedom Mobile service.
Less than 90% of Canadians use mobile services, so there’s still room to expand....
BCE INC. $59.56 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares o/s: 898.2 million; Market cap: $53.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Divd. yield: 5.1%; www.bce.ca) is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider: it has 3.0 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces....
BCE INC. $58.42 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 898.0 million; Market cap: $52.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.2%; www.bce.ca) and TELUS $47.93 (Toronto symbol T; Shares o/s: 598.7 million; Market cap: $28.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.telus.com) have both used equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co....
BCE INC. $58 (www.bce.ca) and TELUS CORP. $47 (www.telus.com) have both used equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in their wireless networks. Canada and the U.K. are now considering joining other members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing group (U.S., Australia and New Zealand) in banning Huawei equipment from their planned ultrafast 5G wireless networks....
BCE INC. $53.97 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares o/s: 898.0 million; Market cap: $48.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Divd. yield: 5.6%; www.bce.ca) is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider: it has 3.1 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces....
TELUS CORP. $47 (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares o/s: 598.2 million; Market cap: $28.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.0; Dividend yield: 4.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) has 9.15 million subscribers and is Canada’s third-largest wireless carrier after Rogers (No....
ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $45.03 (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Units outstanding: 103.9 million; Market cap: $4.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.5%; www.alliedreit.com) owns 147 office buildings, mainly in major Canadian cities....
A: BMO Canadian High Dividend Covered Call ETF, $18.36, symbol ZWC on Toronto (Units outstanding: 21.1 million; Market cap: $387.4 million; www.bmo.com/gam/ca/investor/products/etfs), focuses on mostly high-quality Canadian stocks....
TELUS CORP. $47 (Toronto symbol T; Income-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 599.0 million; Market cap: $28.2 billion; Dividend yield: 4.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.telus.com) is Canada’s third-largest wireless carrier, after Rogers Communications (No....
ENBRIDGE INC. $43 (www.enbridge.com) continues to sell some of its less-important assets to help pay down the debt it took on to buy Spectra Energy in February 2017. That firm operates crude oil and natural gas pipelines in the U.S. and Canada....