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.

TELUS CORP., $25.06, Toronto symbol T, is your #1 Income Buy for 2023.

The company had 12.87 million wireless subscribers as of September 30, 2023. It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec.

Telus recently acquired additional wireless spectrum (or radio frequencies) from the federal government....

TELUS INTERNATIONAL (CDA) INC. $10 remains a buy for aggressive investors. The operator of call centres (Toronto symbol TIXT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 274.0 million; Market cap: $2.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.telusinternational.com) paid $1.17 billion in January 2023 for 86% of WillowTree (all amounts except share price and market cap in U.S....
CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY, $96.95, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CP; shares outstanding: 931.8 million; Market cap: $88.8 billion; Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 0.8%) ships freight over a 32,190-kilometre rail network....

TELUS CORP. $24 is still your #1 Income Buy for 2023. The company (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $33.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 6.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier after BCE....
TELUS, $22.78, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $33.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.4%; www.telus.comwww.telus.com) is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier (after BCE, see page 81).


Telus now plans to cut 4,000 positions from Telus and another 2,000 from its Telus International (CDA) Inc....

Dividend yields for these two telecom firms have spiked in the past few weeks. That’s mainly because rising interest rates are prompting income-seeking investors to buy bonds. However, it looks like the current cycle of interest rate hikes has peaked and rates could fall in the next year....

Higher interest rates mean dividend-paying stocks must increasingly compete with fixed-income investments for investor interest. However, sustainable dividends still offer an attractive and growing income stream for investors.


Meanwhile, dividend-focused ETFs often follow strategies that can set investors up for maximum long-term gains with the least amount of risk....

Telus has largely completed a multi-year plan to upgrade its wireless and fibre-optic networks. Those improvements are already attracting new customers and lifting the company’s cash flow. Telus has also lowered capital spending, which will free up cash for future dividend hikes.


TELUS, $22.19, is a buy. The stock (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $31.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.6%; www.telus.com) is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier (after BCE) with 12.53 million subscribers....
A: The iShares S&P/TSX Composite High Dividend Index ETF, $24.44, symbol XEI on Toronto (Units outstanding: 58.7 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; www.blackrock.com/ca), aims to track the S&P/TSX Composite High Dividend Index, which effectively holds the 75 highest-yielding Canadian stocks.

The index is market-capitalization weighted, with each stock capped at 5% (any stock may rise above 5% temporarily until rebalancing)....

In February 2021, Telus Corp. (Toronto symbol T) set up its business services unit International as a separate, publicly traded company. The new firm’s shares are now down 65% since the initial public offering. That’s mainly because many of its larger clients, particularly in the technology industry (contributing 45% of its revenue), are spending less on its services....