Telus raises your dividend

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TELUS CORP. $22 is a buy. The telecom provider (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $33.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend yield: 7.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; 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 7.3%. Moreover, the company has pledged to raise the annual dividend rate by between 7% and 10% from 2023 through the end of 2025. Telus’s improvements to its 5G and fibre-optic networks should continue to help it attract new users. The stock also trades at a reasonable 22.2 times the $0.99 a share that the company will probably earn in 2024. Telus is a buy. buy…