TELUS (NYSE:TU) Issues Earnings Results

TELUS (NYSE:TU) (TSE:T) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday. The Wireless communications provider reported $0.25 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.16 by $0.09, Briefing.com reports. TELUS had a return on equity of 7.90% and a net margin of 3.73%. The company had revenue of $3.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.70 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.14 earnings per share.

TELUS Stock Down 2.5 %

NYSE:TU traded down $0.41 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $16.20. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,974,118 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,304,375. The stock has a market capitalization of $24.01 billion, a P/E ratio of 41.59, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.51 and a beta of 0.73. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $15.81 and a 200-day moving average of $16.48. The company has a current ratio of 0.75, a quick ratio of 0.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.42. TELUS has a 52-week low of $14.63 and a 52-week high of $19.14.

TELUS Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, September 10th will be given a dividend of $0.284 per share. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 10th. This represents a $1.14 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 7.01%. This is a positive change from TELUS’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.28. TELUS’s dividend payout ratio is currently 292.32%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, StockNews.com lowered TELUS from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Friday, June 14th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $26.20.

About TELUS

TELUS Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides a range of telecommunications and information technology products and services in Canada. It operates through Technology Solutions and Digitally-Led Customer Experiences segments. The Technology Solutions segment offers a range of telecommunications products and services; network services; healthcare services; mobile technologies equipment; data services, such as internet protocol; television; hosting, managed information technology, and cloud-based services; software, data management, and data analytics-driven smart food-chain and consumer goods technologies; home and business security; healthcare software and technology solutions; and voice and other telecommunications services, as well as mobile and fixed voice and data telecommunications services and products.