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 74.14% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for USM is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• USM's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 3.84% of US stocks).

USM Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 478.03, UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 94.68% of US stocks.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP is higher than just 10.31% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.31, UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP has a higher such ratio than just 10.94% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP are SHAK, RGCO, DNUT, SHEN, and ATNI.
• 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/earnings ratio is 883.4% lower, now standing at -202.9.
• USM's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.6 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for USM.

USM Growth Metrics

The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 120%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at -20.43%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -9.38%.

USM's revenue has moved up $150,000,000 over the prior 34 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
2022-12-31	4,169	832	30
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

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.