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Telkom’s current CEO, Serame Taukobong, took on the role in January 2022, and under his leadership, the network operator has observed a significant turnaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While it took a few years to show, Telkom managed to restore investors’ confidence, and its share price gains began to show in July 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, the company has reported significantly improved financial results in recent years and resumed paying dividends after a nearly four-year absence. This is attractive for investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Telkom’s latest financial results, which were for the six months ended 30 September 2025, were positive, with its revenue increasing by 3.4% to R22.1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It attributed the strong growth to improved mobile data and fibre data revenue. Data revenue improved by 7.9% over the six months and accounted for nearly 60% of the Telkom Group’s total revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Double-digit growth in mobile and fibre-related data revenue underscored the success of the data-led strategy,” the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Mobile data revenue increased by 10.3%. Fibre-related data revenue grew by 12.3%.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These improvements showcase the success of Telkom’s data-led strategy, and Taukobong said the results show that the company is well-positioned to deliver on its commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In the second half, revenue will remain a key area of focus across the Group, and we will continue with our sustainable cost-optimisation efforts,” the CEO said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that Telkom will continue to leverage its extensive fibre footprint to drive further growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given Telkom’s recent performance, MyBroadband calculated the return on a R1,000 investment in the company over a year between 21 January 2025 and 21 January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without including dividend reinvestment, R1,000 in Telkom shares at the starting date would have secured roughly 30.14 shares. The value of these would have grown to around R1,850 a year later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the return on investment is significantly higher when reinvesting dividend payouts. Telkom declared a dividend of R2.61 per share in its 2025 financial results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It comprised an ordinary dividend of R1.63 and a special dividend of R0.98. This works out to a payout of around R78.66 on a R1,000 investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reinvesting this into more Telkom shares would have resulted in a total return of R1,927.66, or roughly 98%, as of 21 January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The table below shows the return on a R1,000 investment in Telkom, made on 21 January 2025, with dividend reinvestment, by 21 January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telkom explains how it transitioned from a struggling, copper-focused provider to a lean, data-led firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":561485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1355,109,103115,62278],"class_list":["post-629933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-serame-taukobong","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-dividend","tag-telkom-share-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630337,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629933\/revisions\/630337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Telkom investment value change between January 2025 and January 2026<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Share price at close of JSE trading on 21 January 2025<\/td> R33.17<\/td><\/tr> Share price at close of JSE trading on 21 January 2026<\/strong><\/td> R61.34<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Change in share price only<\/td> +84.9%<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Total dividend on 14 July 2025<\/td> R2.61<\/td><\/tr> Total value of a share plus dividend payout<\/strong><\/td> R63.95<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Total change if dividend payout pocketed<\/td> +92.8%<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Revised dividend value if reinvested on payout date<\/td> R3.16<\/td><\/tr> Total value of shares with reinvested dividends<\/strong><\/td> R64.50<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Total change if dividend payout pocketed<\/td> +94.44%<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"