Telephone and Data Systems Inc. (TDS)

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Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025, down 14.7% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 77% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 4% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Telephone and Data Systems Inc. lost about 0 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 42% by size; a net margin of -0.5% ranks in the bottom 39%; revenue growth of -39% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 3% (its annual reports).

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Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Carlson, Walter Cd (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-05-22, 1.5 years (bottom 35% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9 years (top 23%); 13 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 21%; 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.

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Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $766 million against debt of $823 million leaves -0.7% of its assets as net cash, top 32% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 16.2% of revenue (top 29%) (its annual report).

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Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -39% a year over the last three filed years against -14.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 13% of its family); the newest year grew -5.3% (bottom 18%); capital spending grew -30.4% a year (bottom 21%) (its annual reports). Telephone and Data Systems Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Service at $1.0 billion (85%), Site Rental at $155 million (13%), Product at $30 million (2%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 93.4% above the $635 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 3% of its family); net income of $6 million against a prior three-year average of $155 million (top 32%); a net margin of -0.5% against -12.6% before (top 38%) (its annual reports).