Equities Analysts Offer Predictions for TELUS Q3 Earnings

TELUS Corporation (NYSE:TU) (TSE:T) – Research analysts at National Bank Financial issued their Q3 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of TELUS in a research report issued on Wednesday, October 1st. National Bank Financial analyst A. Shine expects that the Wireless communications provider will earn $0.19 per share for the quarter. The consensus estimate for TELUS’s current full-year earnings is $0.71 per share. National Bank Financial also issued estimates for TELUS’s FY2025 earnings at $0.72 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $0.80 EPS.

TELUS (NYSE:TU) (TSE:T) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, August 1st. The Wireless communications provider reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.17 by ($0.01). TELUS had a return on equity of 9.10% and a net margin of 4.67%.The firm had revenue of $3.74 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.63 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.25 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 2.2% compared to the same quarter last year.

TU has been the topic of several other research reports. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of TELUS in a report on Saturday, September 27th. Scotiabank reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of TELUS in a research note on Tuesday, July 15th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating and seven have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $21.50.

TELUS Stock Up 0.7%

NYSE:TU opened at $15.69 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $16.12 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $15.74. TELUS has a 52-week low of $13.24 and a 52-week high of $16.74. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.72, a quick ratio of 0.81 and a current ratio of 0.86. The company has a market cap of $24.08 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.10, a P/E/G ratio of 4.59 and a beta of 0.71.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On TELUS

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in TU. NBC Securities Inc. increased its holdings in TELUS by 112,425.0% during the 1st quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 4,501 shares of the Wireless communications provider’s stock worth $64,000 after purchasing an additional 4,497 shares in the last quarter. Vest Financial LLC increased its holdings in TELUS by 49.1% during the 1st quarter. Vest Financial LLC now owns 95,944 shares of the Wireless communications provider’s stock worth $1,376,000 after purchasing an additional 31,604 shares in the last quarter. First Affirmative Financial Network increased its holdings in TELUS by 8.6% during the 1st quarter. First Affirmative Financial Network now owns 41,070 shares of the Wireless communications provider’s stock worth $589,000 after purchasing an additional 3,244 shares in the last quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC increased its holdings in TELUS by 71.9% during the 1st quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 2,321 shares of the Wireless communications provider’s stock worth $33,000 after purchasing an additional 971 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Cardinal Capital Management Inc. increased its holdings in TELUS by 1.8% during the 1st quarter. Cardinal Capital Management Inc. now owns 381,871 shares of the Wireless communications provider’s stock worth $5,479,000 after purchasing an additional 6,780 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 49.40% of the company’s stock.

TELUS Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, October 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, September 10th were paid a dividend of $0.3019 per share. This represents a $1.21 annualized dividend and a yield of 7.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, September 10th. This is a boost from TELUS’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.30. TELUS’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 263.04%.

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.