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The Telus store at at 2187 Queen St. East in Toronto's Beach neighbourhood is photographed on March 5 2014. The Vancouver-based company is publishing its first so-called “transparency report” Thursday morning, revealing that it received 103,462 requests for customer information from government officials and law enforcement agencies in 2013.The Globe and Mail

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One of Canada's largest telecommunications companies, Telus Corp. is trading near its 52-week high of $45.14. Most analysts have a "buy" rating on the stock, and the recent change in its StockReports+ score is due to an improvement in its price momentum, relative valuation and risk component scores. Telus' 10 score also puts it above its peers, who have an average score of 6.8. The stock has also had strong returns, with a one-year return of 14.3 per cent and a five-year return of 157.4 per cent.

StockReports+ gives each stock an average score that combines the quantitative analysis of six widely-used investment decision-making tools: earnings, fundamentals, relative valuation, risk, price momentum and insider trading. The average score for Telus is 10 out of 10. The current score places it in an exclusive group of just 68 stocks that have StockReports+'s highest score of 10.

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