TDSTelephone and Data Systems, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$3.0M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -79% · now 29% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can TDS take a bad year?
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. holds $1.51B more cash than debt, and is burning $113M a quarter, about 4.8 years of cover.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 1.27
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 4.8 years
Cash runway · burning $113M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $680M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.19B
- Net cash
- $1.51B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $822M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $466M
- Debt / equity
- 0.13×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.83×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −79%
- Below its 52-week high
- 29%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.