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

TDS POWR Grades

• TDS scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 75% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for TDS is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 51 weeks.
• TDS ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 9th percentile.

TDS Stock Summary

• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for TDS is currently 1.84, higher than merely 5.58% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.42, Telephone & Data Systems Inc has a higher such ratio than only 7.45% of stocks in our set.
• Telephone & Data Systems Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -32.89%, greater than the shareholder yield of just 8.83% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Telephone & Data Systems Inc are USM, CSSE, ECOL, CLH, and KAMN.
• TDS's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Telephone & Data Systems Inc's official 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 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -57.24%.
• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at -26.24%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 66.08%.

Over the past 67 months, TDS's revenue has gone up $152,759,000.

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
2021-06-30	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
2020-03-31	5,179	1,056	131

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 19.49% of graded US stocks.
• TDS's asset turnover comes in at 0.421 -- ranking 27th of 63 Communication stocks.
• USM, VZ, and CHTR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with TDS.

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