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Market cap

5.3B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E273.4

P25 9.1P50 13.9P75 26.1

Trailing P/E27.9

P25 9.5P50 16.4P75 38.9

ROE6

P25 -39P50 -0.5P75 11.8

ROIC2.1

P25 -10.3P50 2.5P75 10

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Indicator catalog

All TDS market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

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Showing 256 of 256 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001051512
Company name	Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	879433829
Employees	4,000
Employees Change	-3,900%
Employees Change Percent	-49.37
Enterprise value	$5.2B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Telecom Services
Isin	US8794338298
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$5.3B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$46.47
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	311,806x
Sector	Communication Services
Sic	4813
Symbol	TDS
Website	https://www.tdsinc.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	1.17%
EV Earnings	83.98x
EV Sales Forward	4.07x
EV/EBIT	44.74x
EV/EBITDA	11.04x
EV/Sales	4.15x
FCF yield	-0.06%
Forward P/E	273.35x
P/B ratio	1.01x
P/E ratio	27.89x
P/S ratio	4.24x
PE Ratio10 Y	27.69x
PS Forward	4.16x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	9.28%
EBITDA Margin	37.62%
Gross margin	72.38%
Gross Profit	$902.7M
Gross Profit Growth	-67.69%
Gross Profit Growth Q	-79.34%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-31.63%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	-20.68%
Net Income	$61.7M
Net Income Growth Q	1,965.63%
Net Income Growth Quarters	2%
Net Income Growth Years	2%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-22.03%
Pretax Margin	26.87%
Profit Margin	10.49%
Profit Per Employee	$15,416
ROA	0.67
Roa5y	0.13
ROCE	1.49
ROE	6.02
Roe5y	-0.64
ROIC	2.09
Roic5y	0.04

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	8.75%
Cagr15y	5.43%
Cagr1y	35.41%
Cagr20y	3.42%
Cagr3y	84.35%
Cagr5y	17.12%
Div CAGR10	-11.95%
Div CAGR3	-39.57%
Div CAGR5	-25.24%
EPS Growth Quarters	2
EPS Growth Years	2
EPS Growth5 Y	-22.95
OCF Growth	-57.39%
OCF Growth Q	-63.73%
OCF Growth10 Y	-3.6%
OCF Growth3 Y	-16.83%
OCF Growth5 Y	-18.72%
Revenue Growth	-74.32x
Revenue Growth Q	-73.19x
Revenue Growth Quarters	2x
Revenue Growth Years	0x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-38.65x
Revenue Growth5 Y	-25.07x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.11
Assets	$8.2B
Cash	$1.4B
Current Assets	$1.5B
Current Liabilities	$443.7M
Debt	$1.3B
Debt EBITDA	$2.29
Debt Equity	$0.24
Equity	$5.3B
Interest Coverage	1.23
Liabilities	$2.9B
Long Term Assets	$6.7B
Long Term Liabilities	$2.5B
Net Cash	$111.7M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$2.11
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.24
Net Debt Equity	$-0.02
Tangible Book Value	$3.5B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$30.7
WACC	6.38

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	3.43
Inventory Turnover	3.71
Net Working Capital	$-256.4M
Quick ratio	3.31
Working Capital	$1.1B
Working Capital Turnover	$1.39

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-4%
Dividend Growth	0%
Dividend Growth Years	53%
Dividend per share	$0.16
Dividend Years	53
Dividend Yield	0.34%
Ex Div Date	2026-03-16
Last Dividend	$0.04
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	32.12%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	131.33%
1Y total return	35.38%
200-day SMA	41.28
3Y total return	526.77%
50-day SMA	44.35
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	120.39%
All Time High	67.77
All Time High Change	-31.43%
All Time High Date	2007-07-19
All Time Low	1.07
All Time Low Change	4,230.85%
All Time Low Date	1982-02-19
ATR	1.32
Beta	0.34
Beta1y	0.73
Beta2y	0.82
Ch YTD	13.34
High	49.12
High52	49.12
High52 Date	2026-05-08
High52ch	-5.39%
Low	44.94
Low52	32.6
Low52 Date	2025-06-23
Low52ch	42.55%
Ma50ch	4.78%
Price vs 200-day SMA	12.58%
RSI	61.63
RSI Monthly	72.19
RSI Weekly	61.8
Sharpe ratio	1.09x
Sortino ratio	2.01
Total Return	-3.66%
Tr YTD	13.45
Tr15y	120.94%
Tr1m	3.94%
Tr1w	2.18%
Tr3m	1.56%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	3
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$56
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$-0.77
Earnings Revenue Estimate	314,080,216x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	8.14x
Operating Income	$115.8M
Operating Income Growth	-10.27
Operating Income Growth Q	288.7
Operating Income Growth3 Y	6.81
Operating Income Growth5 Y	-18.35
Operating margin	9.28
Price target	$53.33
Price Target Change	$14.76
Price Target Change Top	$20.51

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	88,391,124%
Float Percent	77.64%
Net Borrowing	-1,778,394,000
Shares Insiders	5.5%
Shares Institutions	84.12%
Shares Out	113,843,928
Shares Qo Q	-0.74%
Shares Yo Y	4%
Short Float	0.04%
Short Ratio	0.03
Short Shares	0.03

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$-22M
Average Volume	703,559.15x
Bv Per Share	46.21
CAPEX	$-475.2M
Ch10y	73.66
Ch15y	49.54
Ch1m	3.94
Ch1w	2.18
Ch1y	34.81
Ch20y	25.5
Ch3m	1.46
Ch3y	486
Ch5y	87.91
Ch6m	23.3
Change	2.13%
Change From Open	3.36
Close	45.5
Days Gap	-1.19
Depreciation Amortization	353,499,000
Dollar Volume	88,608,299
Earnings Date	2026-05-08
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$115.8M
EBITDA	$469.3M
EPS	$0.5
F Score	7
FCF	$-3.4M
FCF EV Yield	-0.07x
FCF Per Share	$-0.03
Financing CF	-2,606,741,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,968
Graham Number	22.75997
Graham Upside	-51.02
Income Tax	$347,000
Investing CF	3,134,615,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-08
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	2012-01-25
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-24
Lynch Fair Value	$2.49
Lynch Upside	-94.64
Ma150	42.11
Ma150ch	10.35%
Ma20	45.19
Ma20ch	2.84%
Net CF	999,615,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-10
Open	44.96
Optionable	Yes
P OCF Ratio	11.21
Payment Date	2026-03-31
Position In Range	36.6
Ppne	3,538,559,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$11.27
Ptbv Ratio	1.51
Relative Volume	2.71x
Revenue	1,247,224,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.49x
Share Based Comp	18,584,000
Tax By Revenue	0.03x
Tax Rate	0.1%
Tr20y	95.92%
Tr6m	23.54%
Us State	Illinois
Volume	1,906,785

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Income

TDS dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+0.3%

$0.16 annual per share

Payout ratio

+32.1%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

-25.2%

53 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

-3.7%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-03-16

Performance

TDS stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns TDS?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+84.1%

Float: +77.6% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+5.5%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

TDS momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

61.6

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+12.6%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.34

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

1.09

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

TDS vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
DIS	The Walt Disney Company	187.6B	17.3x	1.9x	9.2%	+10.8%	+7.0%	持有
GOOGL	Alphabet Inc.	4.9T	30.6x	11.5x	28.3%	+16.5%	+165.7%	买入
META	Meta Platforms Inc.	1.5T	22.2x	7.2x	29.8%	+17.9%	+2.5%	强力买入

Questions

About TDS

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What is the current TDS stock rating?

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