6 companies · median 22 of 36 checks · prices as of 2026-09-08
Telecoms stocks.
Sorted by how many checks each one passes. Sort by any column to see who is cheapest, who is growing, or who has the strongest balance sheet - and how that compares with what is normal for the industry.
Ranked by checks passed
6 of 201 covered companies→The telecoms companies we cover are not one trade: T-Mobile (TMUS) passes 26 of its 36 checks and AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) passes 8, with a median of 22.
→VZ, TMUS, T are 80% of the $724.5B we cover here, so a sector average says more about them than about the rest.
 T-MobileTMUSRuns one of the three US wireless networks, the one winning the most subscribers.ReportFact sheet | +0.1% | -26.6% | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 26/36 |
 VerizonVZRuns one of the three US wireless networks, plus fibre broadband.ReportFact sheet | +0.5% | +21.3% | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 23/36 |
 ComcastCMCSARuns Xfinity cable and broadband, NBCUniversal, Peacock and the Universal theme parks.ReportFact sheet | -0.6% | -13.1% | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 22/36 |
 AT&TTRuns one of the three US wireless networks and a growing fibre broadband business.ReportFact sheet | -0.3% | -9.4% | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 21/36 |
 Warner Bros. DiscoveryWBDOwns Warner Bros., HBO and Max, CNN and Discovery, carrying heavy debt from the merger.ReportFact sheet | -0.5% | +132.2% | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 12/36 |
 AST SpaceMobileASTSBuilding a satellite network to connect ordinary phones directly from space.ReportFact sheet | +6.1% | +55.9% | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8/36 |
Every filing behind this table closes on 2026-06-30; prices are the close of 2026-09-08. Each name links to its full report; every score is a count of pass-or-fail checks read from that company's own filings.
Where the sector falls short
median score per axis→Health is where the telecoms companies we cover come up short most often, at a median of 2 of 6, while Quality runs at 4.5.
| Value | ●●●○○○ | 3 of 6 |
| Growth | ●●●○○○ | 3 of 6 |
| Quality | ●●●●●○ | 5 of 6 |
| Health | ●●○○○○ | 2 of 6 |
| Shareholder returns | ●●●●○○ | 4 of 6 |
| Trend analysis | ●●●●○○ | 4 of 6 |
What a normal margin looks like here
sector percentiles · 62 filers→Operating margin clusters among telecoms companies, from -11% to 14% across the middle of the field, with a midpoint of -0% measured over 62 filers.
| Metric | Bottom third | Midpoint | Top third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin n=62 | -10.9% | -0.3% | 13.8% |
| Net margin n=63 | -12.7% | -1.4% | 8.0% |
| Return on equity n=53 | -11.9% | -0.7% | 11.1% |
Who grows, and who keeps it
every company in the industry→VZ, T, TMUS do both: growing faster than this industry's middle and keeping more of each sale than it does. The industry's middle is -0% growth on a 1% margin.
A year of price
not a fact about the business→3 of 6 are up over twelve months and the median move is +6.0% - Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) at +132.2% against T-Mobile (TMUS) at -26.6%. Price is not a fact about a business, and the Trend chapter of each report says what it is measured on.
Head to head
3 pairsThe table above gives the order. These put two of them in one column each, so you can see where the difference actually is.