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 94.85% of US stocks.
• USM's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 160 days.
• USM ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 18th percentile.

USM Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for United States Cellular Corp is higher than just 8.47% 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 only 14.07% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for USM comes in at -15.85% -- higher than that of merely 19.69% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to United States Cellular Corp are TDS, SKYW, BSRR, FBNC, and FULT.
• 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

The 5 year revenue growth rate now stands at 0.55%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 52.45%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at -15.17%.

USM's revenue has moved up $159,000,000 over the prior 33 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
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
2020-06-30	4,019	940	180

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.