Telus raises your dividend

Article Excerpt

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. It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec. As well, the company owns 72.2% of Telus International (Cda) Inc. (Toronto symbol TIXT). That firm help businesses manage their call centres, websites and digital apps. Due to weaker demand for Telus International’s services, both the subsidiary and parent are cutting jobs. Severance and other costs will total $475 million in 2023. However, the plan should lower Telus’s annual expenses by $325 million, starting in 2024. Thanks in part to those savings, with the January 2024 payment, the company will raise your quarterly payment by 3.4%. Investors will then receive $0.3761 a share instead of $0.3636. The new annual rate of…