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.

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TELUS CORP., $21.80, Toronto symbol T, is your #1 Income Buy for 2025.

The company is Canada’s largest wireless carrier with 13.88 million subscribers (including non-cellphone devices such as tablets). It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec.

Starting in 2011, Telus began rewarding its shareholders with twice yearly dividend increases....
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TELUS INTERNATIONAL (CDA) INC. $4.94 remains a buy, but only for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol TIXT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 275.0 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.telusinternational.com) now operates as Telus Digital Experience....
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Telus offers a very compelling 8.1% yield as it diversifies into high-growth sectors, keeps adding customers and forecasts more dividend raises to come.

TELUS INTERNATIONAL (CDA) INC. $5.68 remains a buy, but only for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol TIXT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 275.0 million; Market cap: $1.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.telusinternational.com) now operates as Telus Digital Experience....
TELUS, $22.07, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $33.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.8%; www.telus.com) has 13.61 million wireless subscribers across Canada....
Starting in 2011, telecom Telus began rewarding its shareholders with twice yearly dividend increases. Under the current version of the plan, the company committed to increasing the annual rate by between 7% and 10% from 2023 through the end of 2025.


More dividend increases beyond 2025 seem likely now that Telus has largely completed a multi-year plan to expand its 5G cellular and fibre-optic networks....