Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

TDS US Communication Services Integrated Telecommunication Services
S&P 600
$37.42
-0.05%
Delayed · cached 15 min
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Peer comparison

CompanyPriceMarket CapP/EP/BROE %ROCE %Div yield %Valuation
Verizon$ 50.52$209.88B13.152.0216.338.415.59Above FV
AT&T$ 26.12$178.95B8.621.6317.366.454.34Below FV
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.$ 37.42$4.31B9.361.11-0.12-1.230.43

Price, market cap, P/E, P/B and dividend yield reflect the live quote (delayed, cached 15 min); ROE/ROCE from reported financials. The highlighted row is the current company. Click a column header to sort. Educational data only.

How to read the peer comparison

This table places the company beside others in the same industry on a few common measures. Comparison adds context that a single company's numbers cannot give on their own.

  • Valuation multiples like P/E and P/B are most meaningful within the same industry, because different industries naturally trade at different levels. Comparing a company only to its peers is more useful than to the whole market.
  • Return measures (ROE, ROCE) show how efficiently each company turns capital into profit. A company well ahead of or behind its peers here is worth understanding.
  • No single column decides anything. A beginner reads the row across — valuation, returns, and size together — and treats the highlighted current company as one data point among its peers.
  • Use the sortable headers to rank peers on any measure, but remember that "cheaper" or "higher" on one metric is a starting question, not an answer.

Educational only — not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security.

Educational data only. Not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security.