Will TELUS (TSX:T)’s AI data annotation meaningfully change the telecom-centric investment story?

• TELUS Digital recently highlighted how its Ground Truth Studio platform supports production-grade, safety-critical data annotation for autonomous vehicle and robotics programs, combining advanced AI tools with human oversight to manage complex edge cases and ensure certified data quality.
• This focus on highly specialized and compliant AI data services underscores TELUS’ commitment to extend its capabilities beyond traditional communications and into higher-value technology infrastructure for emerging mobility and automation markets.
• Next, we consider how TELUS Digital’s human-involved AI annotation platform could impact TELUS’ broader investment story and growth objectives.

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TELUS investment story summary

To own TELUS, you need to believe that its core connectivity and growing digital platform can offset pressures on wireless ARPU, high capital expenditures, and mounting debt. The Ground Truth Studio news strengthens TELUS Digital’s commitment to specialized AI services, but does not materially change its near-term focus on free cash flow, deleveraging, maintaining high dividends, or the key risks that execution in non-telcos could remain uneven.

The recent launch of Confidential AI with Fortanix, built on TELUS’ Sovereign AI Factory, is particularly relevant here. This shows that TELUS is investing in a secure and compliant AI infrastructure that can complement Ground Truth Studio and deepen its role in data-intensive workloads. These moves occur in parallel with network modernization and health expansion as part of the same catalyst. This means using AI and digital platforms to improve margins over time and diversify revenue beyond traditional communications services.

But against this backdrop, investors should also be aware of…

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The TELUS story projects sales of C$22.1 billion and profits of C$1.6 billion by 2029.

We reveal how TELUS’s forecast yields a fair value of CA$21.00, a 24% increase over the current price.

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TELUS highlights Ground Truth Studio and Sovereign AI as potential growth drivers, but the most pessimistic analysts expected revenue to remain at about C$22 billion and profits at about C$1.5 billion by 2028. So we need to recognize how sharply different our views are and consider how this new AI data story might challenge or strengthen those expectations.

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