United States Cellular Corporation (USM): Price and Financial Metrics

USM POWR Grades

• USM scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 95.18% of US stocks.
• USM's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• USM ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 21st percentile.

USM Stock Summary

• United States Cellular Corp's stock had its IPO on March 17, 1992, making it an older stock than 80.49% of US equities in our set.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for USM is currently 3.27, higher than only 10.6% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• USM's price/sales ratio is 0.64; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 15.03% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to United States Cellular Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be TRMK, VSTA, LARK, SKYW, and AMWD.
• USM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit United States Cellular Corp's official web site, go to www.uscellular.com.

USM Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Communication Services stock, USM's price/sales ratio is 75% lower, now standing at 0.7.
• Over the past 243 months, USM's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 4.
• USM's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 4 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for USM.

USM Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 74.65%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 16.49%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -16.06%.

Over the past 52 months, USM's revenue has gone up $269,000,000.

The table below shows USM'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	4,122	802	155
2021-09-30	4,126	954	134
2021-06-30	4,137	908	185
2021-03-31	4,096	1,019	218
2020-12-31	4,037	1,237	229
2020-09-30	4,015	987	242

USM'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.

• USM has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 16.43% of graded US stocks.
• USM's asset turnover comes in at 0.414 -- ranking 30th of 64 Communication stocks.
• TDS, VZ, and CXDO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with USM.

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