{"id":8888,"date":"2018-05-10T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=430c6685d666c1fc501515b4f88edf86"},"modified":"2018-05-10T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T11:48:35","slug":"telus-raises-dividend-q1-profit-slips-lower-compared-with-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/telus-raises-dividend-q1-profit-slips-lower-compared-with-a-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Telus raises dividend, Q1 profit slips lower compared with a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Telus Corp. raised its dividend as it reported its first-quarter profit slipped lower compared with a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it will now make a quarterly payment to shareholders of 52.5 cents per share, up from 49.25 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p>The increase came as Telus says it earned a profit attributable to shareholders of $410 million or 69 cents per share for the quarter ended March 31, down from $414 million or 70 cents per share a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Operating revenue for the quarter totalled nearly $3.38 billion, up from $3.18 billion in the same quarter last year.<\/p>\n<p>On an adjusted basis, Telus says it earned $435 million or 73 cents per share for the quarter compared with $418 million or 71 cents per share a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts on average had expected a profit of 75 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:T)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &mdash; Telus Corp. raised its dividend as it reported its first-quarter profit slipped lower compared with a year ago. The company says it will now make a quarterly payment to shareholders of 52.5 cents per share, up from 49.25 cents per share. The increase came as Telus says it earned a profit attributable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}