Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

November 2024 | 50 pages | ID: T357B55424BBEN
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Abstracts

Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Telephone & Data Systems Inc. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Telephone & Data Systems Inc. position in the Communication Services Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about Telephone & Data Systems Inc. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
• Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Telephone & Data Systems Inc.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
• The Telephone & Data Systems Inc. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
• In the part that describes Telephone & Data Systems Inc. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
• Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Telephone & Data Systems Inc. business.

About Telephone & Data Systems Inc.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. operates as a telecommunications service company. The company provides wireless operations by its 82 % owned subsidiary, United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular), and wireline operations by its wholly-owned subsidiary, TDS Telecommunications Corporation (TDS Telecom). It also conducts printing and distribution services through its 80%-owned subsidiary, Suttle Straus, Inc. (Suttle-Straus).

Segments

The company has three reportable segments: U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations; TDS Telecom’s Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) wireline operations; and TDS Telecom’s Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) wireline operations.

U.S. CELLULAR OPERATIONS

Wireless Interests

U.S. Cellular is a wireless telecommunications service provider. As of December 31, 2009, U.S. Cellular provided wireless voice and data services to approximately 6.1 million customers in five geographic market areas in 26 states. U.S. Cellular operates its wireless systems under an organizational structure in which it groups its markets into geographic market areas to offer customers service areas that primarily utilize U.S. Cellular’s network. U.S. Cellular’s ownership interests in wireless licenses include both consolidated and investment interests in licenses covering portions of 35 states as of December 31, 2009.

Products and Services

Wireless Devices: U.S. Cellular offers a range of wireless handsets and laptop cards for use by its customers. The wireless devices that U.S. Cellular offers are compatible with its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 1XRTT and/or third generation Evolution-Data Optimized (3G) network. In addition, U.S. Cellular offers a range of accessories, such as carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers and other items to customers, and U.S. Cellular sells wireless devices to agents and other third-party distributors for resale.

During 2009, U.S. Cellular’s smartphone category was expanded with the addition of various BlackBerry and Windows Mobile-based handsets, such as the BlackBerry Tour, BlackBerry Flip, next generation BlackBerry Curve, HTC Snap, and HTC Touch Pro II. In addition, U.S. Cellular expanded its premium handset offering with the addition of the LG Tritan, LG Bliss, and Samsung Caliber.

U.S. Cellular purchases wireless devices and accessory products from various manufacturers, with the substantial majority of such purchases made from LG InfoComm, Samsung, Research In Motion, Motorola, Personal Communications Devices, LLC, Superior Communications, and Kyocera.

Wireless Services: U.S. Cellular’s customers are able to choose from various packaged voice and data pricing plans that are designed to fit different usage patterns and customer needs, including both postpay and prepay options. U.S. Cellular generally offers wide area and national consumer plans that can be tailored to a customer’s needs by the addition of features or feature packages. Additionally, U.S. Cellular offers hybrid prepay service plans, which include unlimited or packages of minutes for a monthly fee.

U.S. Cellular’s easyedge brand of enhanced data services use a binary runtime environment for wireless (BREW) technology, licensed from Qualcomm, and adds limited computer-like functionality to non-smartphone handsets, enabling applications to be downloaded over-the-air directly to the customer’s wireless device. These data services include news, weather, sports information, games, ring tones, and other services. Applications are added to U.S. Cellular’s easyedge catalog on an ongoing basis. Significant applications include Mobile Browser, which gives customers connectivity for accessing Web e-mail, social networking and other Internet sites, and performing e-commerce transactions; Mobile E-mail, which helps bridge the gap for customers who want to stay connected no matter where they are or what they are doing; Your Navigator, which offers voice-prompted turn-by-turn navigation to help customers reach their destinations; Music Sync, which turns a customer’s handset into a music player; and Search & Info, which gives customers the ability to search for ri

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Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Telephone & Data Systems Inc. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Telephone & Data Systems Inc. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Communication Services Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Industry Position Analysis

6. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. EXPERTS REVIEW¹

7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions

8. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS²

9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS²

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES²

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

11. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS²

12. TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC. VRIO ANALYSIS²

APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF FIGURES

Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. 1-year Stock Charts
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. 5-year Stock Charts
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Article Density Chart

1 – Data availability depends on company’s security policy.
2 – These sections are available only when you purchase a report with appropriate additional types of analyses.
The complete financial data is available for publicly traded companies.

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Key Executives
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Major Shareholders
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. History
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Offices and Representations
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Capital Market Snapshot
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Communication Services Industry Statistics
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. Consensus Recommendations¹
Analyst Recommendation Summary¹
Price Target Summary¹
Experts Recommendation Trends¹
Revenue Estimates Analysis¹
Earnings Estimates Analysis¹
Historical Surprises¹
Revenue Estimates Trend¹
Earnings Estimates Trend¹
Revenue Revisions¹

ANALYSIS FEATURES

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

• How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
• How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

• Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
• Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
• Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
• Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
• Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
• Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

• Tangible resources
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Technological
  • Organizational
• Intangible resources
  • Human
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Reputation
• Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

• Valuable?
• Rare?
• Costly to imitate?
• Organized properly?