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 91.55% of US stocks.
• USM's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 48 weeks.
• USM ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 10th percentile.

USM Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for United States Cellular Corp is higher than just 8.97% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• USM's price/sales ratio is 0.65; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 13.72% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for USM comes in at -38.74% -- higher than that of only 7.38% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to United States Cellular Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be TDS, CSSE, ECOL, FAMI, and TIG.
• Visit USM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's 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 4 year price growth rate is now at -15.17%.
• The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 30.7%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 96.14%.

Over the past 33 months, USM's revenue has gone up $192,000,000.

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
2021-06-30	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
2020-06-30	4,019	940	180
2020-03-31	4,019	779	143

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 17.56% of graded US stocks.
• USM's asset turnover comes in at 0.425 -- ranking 27th of 63 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.