Company Analysis

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co (SHEN)

Nasdaq: SHEN · Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone) · Edinburg, VA · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade4.1
◀ Past 3.3● Present 4.0▶ Future 4.7

The grade of Shenandoah Telecommunications Co

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.1/10
◀ Past3.325% of the headline
● Present4.035% of the headline
▶ Future4.740% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.3/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.9/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

4 warning events since 2017; the latest 2022-03-03.

weight 22% of this tense · 29th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's filings since 2017 show 4 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2017-03-20); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2022-03-03); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2018-03-01) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.7/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-4.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 7 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 37th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $535 million in fiscal 2016 to $358 million in fiscal 2025, down 4.4% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 69% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2018; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-4.4%bottom 8% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 26% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 47% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak68.5%bottom 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 3.2% a year. 6% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 6 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 29th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's diluted share count grew about 3.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 6% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 6 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $94 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 23% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.0/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -4%: lost 4¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 54%: owes 54¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 37th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Shenandoah Telecommunications Co lost about 4 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 54 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 37% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 19% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 40% of 19 in its family; net margin -9.2%.

weight 33% of this tense · 40th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $358 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 42% by size; a net margin of -9.2% ranks in the bottom 18%; revenue growth of 12.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 39% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$358Mbottom 42% of its family
  • net margin-9.2%bottom 18% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth12.9%top 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
4.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 47% of 11 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2026.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mckay, Edward H (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-02-05, 9 months (bottom 15% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.4 years (top 32%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 42%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge9 in three years among 21 peopletop 42% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed7.4 yearstop 32% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record10 monthsbottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.7/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
1.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 13% of 19 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 13th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $27 million against debt of $628 million leaves -31.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -72.1% of revenue (bottom 3%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-31.5%bottom 23% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-72.1%bottom 3% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
8.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 13% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 87th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 12.9% a year over the last three filed years against -4.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 8% of its family); the newest year grew 9.1% (top 29%); capital spending grew 23.8% a year (top 3%) (its annual reports). Shenandoah Telecommunications Co reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Residential and SMB Incumbent Broadband at $170 million (47%), Residential and SMB Glo Fiber Expansion Markets at $83 million (23%), Commercial Fiber at $79 million (22%), and 2 more; 4 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+17.2 points a yeartop 8% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth9.1%top 29% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending23.8%top 3% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
1.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 15% of 17 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 15th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co's newest year against its own record: revenue of $358 million in fiscal 2025 came in 5% below the $377 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 26% of its family); net income of $33 million against a prior three-year average of $64 million (bottom 9%); a net margin of -9.2% against 19.6% before (bottom 9%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-5.0%bottom 26% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-151%bottom 9% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-28.8 pointsbottom 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton SHEN · research, not advice