TDS
HoldUnloved QualityTelephone and Data Systems, Inc. · Communication Services · United States · $4.1B cap · $65.7M/day traded
$36.01 +1.1% · close 4 Nov · scored 5 Nov
Unloved Quality: Strong and cheap, but the market has not warmed to it.
Report expected 9 Nov: the next-year EPS estimate has been little changed over the last 4 weeks.
As of 5 Nov 2026, MoatMap's StockRank for Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS) is 54/100, ranked against 24,000+ stocks in 35 markets (Quality 53, Value 53, Momentum 43, each scored against its sector).
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ABOUT TELEPHONE AND DATA SYSTEMS, INC.
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Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., a telecommunications company, provides communications services to residential, commercial, and wholesale customers in the United States. It operates through two segments: TDS Telecom and Array.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY (USD)
| Year | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | CAGR | TTM | 2026E | 2027E | Fwd CAGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 5.4B | 1.4B | 1.3B | 1.2B | -39.0% | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.3B | 1.0% |
| EPS | -0.07 | -5.05 | -0.85 | -0.66 | — | 4.00 | 3.70 | 0.22 | — |
| Shares | 112.0M | 113.5M | 114.5M | 113.8M | +1.6% | 107.6M | — | — | — |
| Debt | 4.8B | 5.1B | 3.0B | 1.4B | -33.6% | 1.2B | — | — | — |
| Equity | 5.8B | 5.2B | 5.1B | 4.8B | -6.4% | — | — | — | — |
| Op CF | 1.2B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 589.9M | -20.1% | 105.7M | — | — | — |
| Inv CF | -1.8B | -1.3B | -754.5M | 2.1B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fin CF | 613.0M | 56.0M | -277.5M | -2.3B | — | — | — | — | — |
Made a new 52-week low 10 trading days ago, 27% below its 52-week high. The fall has not stopped yet.
Calmer than 71% of stocks we rank over the past year (volatility 31% a year).
How this is worked out
StockRank weighs the business, its price and its trend. The price check reads only the chart: the price side of the Momentum score, in words.
The rules: Still falling is a new 52-week low in the last two weeks, at least 25% below the high. Finding a floor is no new low since. Turning up is 20 or more trading days without a new low, at least 10% off it, and back above a rising 50-day average. In an uptrend is above the 200-day average and within 15% of the high.
In 2,112 US drawdowns since 2001, buying while the price was still falling was followed by a further 20% drop 42% of the time. Waiting for a turn (the Turning up rule above) cut that to 33%, at about 7% higher prices and with no better returns. Part of that cut is simply not buying: 13% of falls never turned, and waiting kept those out. Among turns that were bought, 38% still fell another 20%, and 33% of turns were followed by a new low within six months. The benefit was largest in crashes such as 2008 and 2020.
What it measures: how much the price moved day to day over the past year, scaled to a yearly figure (annualised volatility) and ranked against every stock we cover. Very calm under 20% a year, Calm 20 to 30%, Average 30 to 40%, Bumpy 40 to 55%, Very bumpy above that.
What we found: across about 13,500 stocks in 34 markets (2002 to 2025), past swings were a good guide to the next year's, and bumpier stocks fell further. How much further changed too much between eras to put a number on it.
Calm is not safe: a calm stock can still slide steadily.
Rules fixed before any data was fetched. Describes the chart, not a recommendation.
SCORE BREAKDOWN
FUNDAMENTALS
SECTOR PEERS
Closest peers in Communication Services, ranked by industry match, size, and score similarity. Cross-listings of TDS are excluded.
| Ticker | Company | Mkt Cap | StockRank | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDS | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.(you) | $4.1B | 54 | Hold |
| IRDM | Iridium Communications Inc. | $4.7B | 40 | Hold |
| AD | Array Digital Infrastructure, Inc. | $2.9B | 39 | Hold |
| LUMN | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | $4.7B | 24 | Sell |
| GSAT | Globalstar, Inc. | $10.7B | 36 | Hold |
| CHTR | Charter Communications, Inc. | $14.1B | 71 | Buy |
| ATEX | Anterix Inc. | $1.5B | 27 | Sell |
| IDT | IDT Corporation | $2.0B | 89 | Strong Buy |
| GLIBA | Liberty Capital Corporation | $852M | 35 | Hold |
| ATNI | ATN International, Inc. | $399M | 80 | Buy |
Peer medians: ROE 3.1% · P/E 18.7x · Gross margin 55.8%
Company Deep Dive
A 10,000-word report: the business and its segments, what management promised on earnings calls and whether it delivered, the competition, and how things could turn out.