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Profile - Telephone & Data Systems (AMEX:TDS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
30 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60602
Phone: (312) 630-1900
Fax: (312) 630-1908
Email: tdsinfo@teldta.com
Employees (last reported count): 8,860
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 ·Industry: Communications Services
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 400 MidCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 43%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 5 insider sells; 82.0K shares
  (0.3% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 71% (125% of float)
(523 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 772.0K shares (+1.82%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Telephone and Data Systems is a diversified telecommunications service company with cellular telephone and telephone operations. At December 31, 1999, TDS served approximately 3.2 million customer units in 35 states, including 2,602,000 cellular telephones and 645,800 telephone access lines. TDS conducts substantially all of its cellular operations through its 80.7%-owned subsidiary, United States Cellular Corporation. At December 31, 1999, U.S. Cellular provided cellular telephone service through 139 majority-owned and managed (consolidated) cellular systems serving approximately 17% of the geography and approximately 9% of the population of the United States. TDS conducts substantially all of its telephone operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, TDS Telecommunications Corporation. At December 31, 1999, TDS Telecom operated 104 Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) telephone companies serving 571,700 access lines in 28 states.
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Financial Summary
Telephone and Data is a diversified telecommunications services company with cellular telephone and telephone opreations. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 11% to $1.24 billion. Net loss from continuing operations before extraordinary items and account. changes applicable to Common totaled $307.5 million vs. an income of $56 million. Results reflect increased sales in U.S. Cellular segment, offset by the pre-tax loss realized due to the VoiceStream Wireless-Deutsche Telecom merger.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

LeRoy Carlson, 84
Chairman
$868K
LeRoy Carlson, Jr, 54
Pres, CEO
746K
John Rooney, 58
Pres and CEO of United States Cellular Corp.
558K
Sandra Helton, 51
Exec. VP-Fin., CFO, Director
733K
Scott Williamson, 50
Sr. VP - Acquisitions and Corp. Devel.
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..
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Statistics at a Glance -- AMEX:TDSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 21-Dec-2000
$80.60 
Recent Price$103.25 
52-Week High
on 15-Sep-2000
$122.875
Beta0.91 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)176.6K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)168.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-13.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+16.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$6.07B
Shares Outstanding58.8M
Float33.2M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.54 
Dividend Yield0.52%
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 19-Dec-1988
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$66.18 
Earnings (ttm)-$3.77 
Earnings (mrq)-$5.77 
Sales (ttm)$41.05 
Cash (mrq)$1.53 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.56 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.52 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$2.45B
EBITDA (ttm)$833.0M
Income available to common (ttm)-$218.4M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-8.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)17.0%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-2.52%
Return on Equity (ttm)-5.33%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.71 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.30 
Total Cash (mrq)$89.8M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short477.0K
Percent of Float1.4%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
0 
Short Ratio2.81 
Daily Volume170.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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