Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

TDS Communication Services Telecom Services

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.2 billion, down 75.3% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+3.60%
EPS
+5,000.0%
Free cash flow
−134.0%
Total debt
−83.3%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

32.49 3.52 −9.78%
Market cap
$3.5B
P/E
10.6×
Fwd P/E
9.3×
Dividend yield
0.49%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.36
Beneish M
−0.96
Dividend safety
16/100

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS) Price to free cash flow

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Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. has no meaningful price to free cash flow: its trailing twelve-month free cash flow is negative. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.0× (November 2026) to 103× (December 2016) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 24.2× 374.82%
FY2024 5.1× (8.05%)
FY2023 5.5× —
FY2022 0.0× —
FY2021 0.0× —
FY2020 12.9× (75.96%)
FY2019 53.7× 255.01%
FY2018 15.1× (55.60%)
FY2017 34.1× 48.69%
FY2016 22.9× —

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Jun 2026 0.0× —
Mar 2026 0.0× —
Dec 2025 24.2× 121.91%
Sep 2025 10.9× 180.25%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.0× High 103×
Ten-year median 3.5×
Current reading's percentile 47

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Telecom Services industry median 8.1×
Communication Services sector median 10.2×
Market median 14.1×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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