TELUS (TSE:T) Price Target Cut to C$26.00 by Analysts at National Bankshares

TELUS (TSE:T) (NYSE:TU) had its price objective cut by National Bankshares from C$27.00 to C$26.00 in a report issued on Monday morning, BayStreet.CA reports. They currently have an outperform rating on the stock.

A number of other research firms have also weighed in on T. Royal Bank of Canada boosted their price objective on TELUS from C$29.00 to C$30.00 and gave the stock an outperform rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 9th. Scotiabank increased their price objective on TELUS from C$27.00 to C$28.00 and gave the company an outperform rating in a report on Monday, February 12th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price objective on TELUS from C$26.00 to C$27.00 and gave the stock a neutral rating in a research report on Monday, February 12th. Barclays reduced their price target on TELUS from C$25.00 to C$24.00 in a report on Monday, February 12th. Finally, Veritas Investment Research cut TELUS from a buy rating to a reduce rating and set a C$27.00 price target for the company. in a report on Friday, January 26th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of Moderate Buy and an average target price of C$27.36.

TELUS Trading Up 0.4 %

Shares of T opened at C$21.67 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 159.88, a current ratio of 0.67 and a quick ratio of 0.52. The firm has a market cap of C$32.07 billion, a P/E ratio of 38.02, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.07 and a beta of 0.70. TELUS has a 1 year low of C$21.16 and a 1 year high of C$28.95. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of C$23.50 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of C$23.51.

TELUS (TSE:T) (NYSE:TU) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 9th. The company reported C$0.24 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of C$0.23 by C$0.01. TELUS had a return on equity of 4.96% and a net margin of 4.20%. The firm had revenue of C$5.20 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of C$5.24 billion. On average, equities analysts expect that TELUS will post 1 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

TELUS Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, April 1st. Investors of record on Monday, March 11th will be paid a $0.376 dividend. This represents a $1.50 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 8th. TELUS’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 263.16%.

TELUS Company Profile

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.