Telephone & Data Systems (TDS) reported $1.19 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 4.2%. EPS of -$0.05 for the same period compares to -$0.13 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.55% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.17 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being -$0.01, the EPS surprise was -400%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how TDS performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- TDS Telecom Residential connections - Broadband - Wireline, Incumbent: 227.7 thousand versus 232.68 thousand estimated by two analysts on average.
- TDS Telecom Residential connections - Broadband - Wireline, Expansion: 141.8 thousand versus the two-analyst average estimate of 148.17 thousand.
- TDS Telecom Residential connections - Broadband - Cable: 188.2 thousand versus the two-analyst average estimate of 188.74 thousand.
- TDS Telecom Residential connections - Broadband - Total: 557.7 thousand versus the two-analyst average estimate of 569.58 thousand.
- Operating Revenues- TDS Telecom: $265 million versus $257.35 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -0.8% change.
- Operating Revenues- TDS Telecom- Service- Commercial: $35 million versus $33.37 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -5.4% change.
- Operating Revenues- TDS Telecom- Service- Wholesale: $47 million versus $38.07 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +6.8% change.
- Operating Revenues- TDS Telecom- Service: $265 million versus $255.17 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -0.8% change.
- Operating Revenues- TDS Telecom- Service- Residential - Wireline, Incumbent: $85 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $87.06 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -5.6%.
- Revenues from contracts with customers- Total- Equipment and product sales: $186 million compared to the $185.19 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Operating Revenues- TDS Telecom- Service- Residential - Cable: $62 million compared to the $63.17 million average estimate based on two analysts. The reported number represents a change of -10.1% year over year.
- Operating Revenues- All other: $5 million compared to the $14.75 million average estimate based on two analysts. The reported number represents a change of -88.6% year over year.
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Shares of TDS have returned -1.8% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +2.7% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
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