Event-Driven Stocks

TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC /DE/

TDSNYSE

Communication Services · Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone) · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

View price & chart on Yahoo Finance ↗
Signs2 good3 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY25FY24FY23FY22FY21FY20
Revenue$1.07B$1.18B$1.23B$5.29B$5.22B$5.12B
Operating income−$97.4M−$191.3M−$682.6M$122.0M$261.0M$259.0M
Net income−$6.2M−$27.7M−$500.0M$62.0M$156.0M$226.0M
Total assets$8.40B$13.68B$8.14B$14.55B$13.49B$12.53B
Total liabilities
Equity$4.80B$5.09B$5.20B$5.85B$5.93B$4.80B
EPS (diluted)$-0.65$-0.85$-5.05$-0.07$1.00$1.93
Shares out.113.8M114.3M113.0M112.0M115.0M114.0M

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2025
Operating margin
−9.1%
Net margin
−0.6%
Return on equity
−0.1%
Return on assets
−0.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−1.2%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$42.20
Revenue growth (YoY)
−9.0%
Net income growth (YoY)

Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.

Financial health

forensic scores · FY2025
Accruals / assets
7.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
7/8strong

Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Quality score

EDS Score
47
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 100

Our own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Signs

3 warning2 good
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Short interest

FINRA · bi-monthly
SettlementShares shortDays to coverΔ vs prior
May 15, 20263.8M3.4-7.7%
Apr 30, 20264.1M6.7+3.2%
Apr 15, 20263.9M4.7+2.6%
Mar 31, 20263.8M3.5-12.3%
Mar 13, 20264.4M7.4-2.1%

Shares sold short as reported to FINRA. Days-to-cover = short shares ÷ average daily volume — higher means more potential squeeze pressure.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.

Recent SEC filings

All filings ↗

Event-driven situations (2)

Spot an error in this record? Report it. Every correction is verified against the source filing before we change anything.