Telephone and Data Systems share price today

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.'s share price was $36.01 at the close on 4 November 2026. It has been falling for 2 weeks. That is 8.8% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, and it has stayed ahead for 2 weeks in a row.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). Today Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. is in stage 4. The phase helps read everything below.

In the last 52 weeks it traded between $33 and $48, and at that close it sat 21% of the way up from that low.

Over the last 10 years the share price moved +22% while the S&P 500 moved +261%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. paid $0.16 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.04 for Jun 2026. At today's price of $36.01 that is a yield of 0.44%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast.

A dividend is cash paid out for each share. The 12-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.

Telephone and Data Systems is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. earned $362 M of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter. That quarter includes a one-off gain bigger than its revenue, so the comparison with last year does not reflect normal business. Full-year FY25 profit was $27.5 M. Over 4 years profit has grown −38.2% a year on average.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

That is 116.9% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $14.5 M. 2 of the last 9 reported quarters were loss-making.

Jun 2026 profit was $362 M, +2,392.1% on a year earlier.

Read this profit with care: at $362 M it is bigger than the quarter's whole revenue of $309 M. No business earns more than it takes in from sales, so this is a one-off item (for example a debt settlement, a tax write-back or an asset sale), not money the business earned. The underlying business is running at a −6.6% operating margin. The jump on last year, and any P/E built on this profit, come from the one-off, not from a real turn in earnings.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. reported $309 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +3.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 3rd quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown −30.7% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $1.2 B.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

The last four reported quarters add to $1.3 B.

The quarterly figures for FY23 do not add up to the full-year total on file, so those quarters are left out of the charts and sums.

FY25 revenue was $1.2 B, −5.3% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +4.1% on average, against −30.7% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.'s operating margin was −6.6% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 0.6 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between −9.8% and 5.3%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Operating margin is what is left from every $100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −0.6 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −1.0 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged.

Over the last 3 years, 991% of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $590 M of operating cash against $27.5 M of profit. After $391 M of spending on assets, $199 M was left over as free cash.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $1.4 B on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 38.0% of FY25 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: $1.4 B over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.'s P/E is 12.4×, near the low end of its own history: it has been lower only 19% of the time. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 23.4×, over 4.6 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.

In short: the multiple is low against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.'s business trend cannot be read yet. There are fewer than eight usable quarters of growth figures, so there is not enough history to read the trend. This is based on 5 quarters of 1 measure, with some gaps.

Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Why it matters: with too little history, we say so rather than guess a direction.

The latest quarter’s profit includes a one-off item bigger than the normal business, so the profit line is shown but does not count in this reading.

One or more growth lines have an extreme jump caused by comparing with a near-zero or loss-making quarter. Those jumps are capped before reading and drawn at the edge of the chart, so one odd quarter does not decide the result.

The return figures here are yearly, not quarterly. They show level and direction only; they can support the growth lines but never decide the reading alone.

There are fewer than eight usable quarters, so this page does not guess a direction from so little history.

Compound annual growth rate (%)

Compound annual growth rate over each period, %. Revenue, profit and EPS come from yearly figures; the stock price row is price growth over the same periods. A dash means no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. earned a ROE of 1% in FY25. That is up from a low of −8% in FY23. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 6.4 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses.

Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. We do not have the full capital split, so ROE is the longest history we can draw here.

It comes from a 2.2% net margin and 0.15× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 2.2% net margin × 0.15× asset turnover × 1.59× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 0.5% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing plays a small part, so this return is earned, not borrowed.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: −0.6% − 5.8% = −6.4 percentage points. The 5.8% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Negative: growth at these returns loses value until returns improve.