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

TDS POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where TDS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 74.47% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for TDS is in Value, which has been heading down over the past 160 days.
• TDS's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 6.37% of US stocks).

TDS Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 273.58, 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 90.4% of US stocks.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for TDS is currently 1.88, higher than just 5.64% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.43, Telephone & Data Systems Inc has a higher such ratio than only 8.73% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Telephone & Data Systems Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be CLH, SYBT, ECOL, CATY, and FMNB.
• 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

The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 25.95%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 27.22%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 21.38%.

Over the past 33 months, TDS's revenue has gone up $224,000,000.

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
2021-09-30	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
2020-06-30	5,181	1,230	163

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.