Telephone & Data Systems price to free cash flow TDS

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: n/m; not a meaningful number
Last meaningful: 62.9×; Jul 2026
10-year median: 19.2×
10-year range: 7.9× to 109×
Peer median: 26.9×

Telephone & Data Systems' price to free cash flow is not a meaningful number today: free cash flow over the last twelve months was zero, negative or not reported.

It was last meaningful in Jul 2026, at 62.9×.

On the days it had one over the last ten years, its median was 19.2×, from 7.9× in May 2024 to 109× in Feb 2017.

Price to free cash flow over time

median 19.2×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	62.9×	16.3×	87.0×
2025	16.0×	10.6×	23.2×
2024	20.5×	7.9×	20.7×
2023	n/m a value too high to mean anything
2022	12.5×	9.9×	30.2×
2021	29.3×	10.5×	108×
2020	31.2×	21.4×	49.7×
2019	24.0×	10.0×	24.0×
2018	15.7×	15.3×	35.4×
2017	19.6×	18.0×	109×
2016	98.4×	86.3×	101×
2015	n/m a value too high to mean anything
2014	n/m a value too high to mean anything
2013	13.9×	12.0×	22.3×
2012	31.1×	6.0×	31.1×
2011	5.9×	5.2×	7.5×

Against its peers

Companies in Telecommunications Services nearest Telephone & Data Systems' size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to free cash flow
TDSTelephone & Data Systems	n/m
IRDMIridium Communications	17.0×
ADArray Digital Infrastructure	n/m
CALXCalix	26.9×
IDTIDT	30.1×
ATEXAnterix	138×
CHTRCharter Communications	3.0×
Peer median	26.9×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.