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Telus wireless, Internet growth boost revenue, profit

TELUS Corporation (NYSE:TU) witnessed a decline in the market cap on Wednesday as its shares dropped 0.51% or 0.17 points. The $45 average target is 3.16% above today’s ($43.62) stock price.

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Out of 3 analysts covering Telus Corporation (NYSE:TU), 3 rate it “Buy”, 0 “Sell”, while 0 “Hold”.

Getting rid of the full-time positions will save C$100 million ($76 million) to C$125 million a year, the Vancouver-based company said in its third-quarter earnings statement. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $32.60 and a 200-day moving average price of $33.59.

The company reiterated its 2015 earnings forecasts, but doubled its expected restructuring costs to C$250 million ($190 million). Sales rose 2.9 per cent to $5.35-billion from $5.2-billion a year earlier. With the volume soaring to 1,014,130 shares, the last trade was called at $43.2. The company reported $0.66 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.31. The higher estimate for the short term price target is at $56 while the lower estimate is at $43. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating on the company.

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 15th. It has underperformed by 2.13% the S&P500. For the week, the shares have seen a change of -0.24% in the share price. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, September 11th. This represents a $1.97 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.62%.

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Vancouver-based Telus Corp. provided few details about the downsizing except that many of the cuts include voluntary departures and early retirements