NYSE:USM - United States Cellular Stock Price, Forecast & News

United States Cellular trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "USM."

United States Cellular Corp (NYSE:USM) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The Wireless communications provider reported $0.27 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.36 by $0.09. The Wireless communications provider had revenue of $1.03 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.01 billion. United States Cellular had a return on equity of 3.12% and a net margin of 3.21%. The firm's revenue was up 3.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.41 earnings per share. View United States Cellular's Earnings History.

United States Cellular is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for United States Cellular.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for United States Cellular's stock. Their forecasts range from $40.00 to $64.50. On average, they anticipate United States Cellular's stock price to reach $48.10 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 38.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United States Cellular.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United States Cellular in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 2 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for United States Cellular.

Press coverage about USM stock has trended somewhat negative on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. United States Cellular earned a news sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the Wireless communications provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for United States Cellular.

United States Cellular saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 615,300 shares, a decline of 19.5% from the December 31st total of 764,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 211,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.9 days. Approximately 4.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View United States Cellular's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to United States Cellular include CROWN CASTLE IN/SH SH (CCI), SBA Communications (SBAC), Sprint (S), BlackBerry (BB), Telephone & Data Systems (TDS), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Boingo Wireless (WIFI) and Spok (SPOK).

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One share of USM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $34.62.

United States Cellular has a market capitalization of $2.98 billion and generates $3.97 billion in revenue each year. The Wireless communications provider earns $150 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.72 on an earnings per share basis. United States Cellular employs 5,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About United States Cellular.

The official website for United States Cellular is http://www.uscellular.com/.

United States Cellular's mailing address is 8410 West Bryn Mawr Suite 700, CHICAGO IL, 60631. The Wireless communications provider can be reached via phone at 773-399-8900 or via email at [email protected]