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

USM POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where USM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 85.58% of US stocks.
• USM's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
• USM ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 11th percentile.

USM Stock Summary

• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for USM is currently 2.19, higher than just 8.7% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.41, UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP has a higher such ratio than only 13.64% of stocks in our set.
• UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -31.08%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 15.14% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP are TDS, SKYW, ACCO, MRTN, and NHC.
• 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 69.23% lower, now standing at 0.4.
• USM's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 24.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for USM.

USM Growth Metrics

Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -33.49%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 1.4%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -37.37%.

USM's revenue has moved up $2.82e+08 over the prior 52 months.

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
2022-09-30	4,189	787	85
2022-06-30	4,122	1,017	131
2022-03-31	4,109	989	145
2021-12-31	4,122	802	155
2021-09-30	4,126	954	134
2021-06-30	4,137	908	185

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.