Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Common Shares (TDS): Price and Financial Metrics

TDS POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where TDS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 70.86% of US stocks.
• TDS's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• TDS ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 13th percentile.

TDS Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 954.57, Telephone & Data Systems Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 96.69% of US stocks.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for Telephone & Data Systems Inc is higher than only 6.12% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• Telephone & Data Systems Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 30.97%, greater than the shareholder yield of 94.68% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Telephone & Data Systems Inc are PRI, INDB, OGS, SFBC, and PB.
• Visit TDS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.tdsinc.com.

TDS Valuation Summary

• TDS's price/sales ratio is 0.4; this is 79.49% lower than that of the median Communication Services stock.
• TDS's price/earnings ratio has moved up 36.3 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, TDS's price/earnings ratio has gone up 36.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for TDS.

TDS Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 61.21%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 0.22%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 2.94%.

Over the past 34 months, TDS's revenue has gone up $188,000,000.

The table below shows TDS's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	5,329	1,103	117
2021-09-30	5,333	1,229	119
2021-06-30	5,329	1,207	169
2021-03-31	5,281	1,330	214
2020-12-31	5,225	1,532	226
2020-09-30	5,184	1,308	223

TDS's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• TDS has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 18.23% of graded US stocks.
• TDS's asset turnover comes in at 0.421 -- ranking 28th of 64 Communication stocks.
• USM, VZ, and CXDO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with TDS.

The table below shows TDS's key quality metrics over time.