Telus raises its dividend

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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. It also sells landline phone, Internet, TV, and security services in B.C., Alberta, and eastern Quebec. With the January 2025 payment, Telus will increase your quarterly dividend by 3.4%, to $0.4023 a share from $0.3891. The new annual rate of $1.609 a share yields a high 6.8%. Moreover, the company has pledged to raise the annual dividend rate by between 7% and 10% from 2023 through the end of 2025. The stock also trades at a reasonable 21.0 times the $1.05 a share that the company will probably earn in 2025. Telus Corp. is a buy. buy…