Telstra shares got a boost today as the ACCC decided against letting rival Telcos roam their regional mobile network at a government fixed price.
Some analysts have estimated that mobile communications contributes about 45% of earnings, or $4.2 billion, in 2017/18. Telstra shares have jump by over 4% to reach $4.45 in early trade.
On April 20th, we wrote a blog piece about how TLS at $4.00 per share represented close to an 8% yield on their 15.5 cent dividend. We see value in the stock up to $4.50 keeping the forward yield in the 7.00% area.