USM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (United States Cellular | NYSE:USM)

us Cellular is a regional wireless carrier that serves about 4.5 million customers spread across four major geographic clusters: the Midwest, mid-Atlantic, New England, and the Pacific Northwest. These service territories encompass a total population of about 32 million people. The vast majority of the markets the firm serves are rural or second/third-tier cities, with only the greater Milwaukee and Oklahoma City regions boasting populations greater than 1 million. us Cellular also owns a 5.5% stake in Verizon Wireless' Los Angeles operations and, unlike its wireless carrier peers, owns most of its own towers. The firm has agreed to sell its wireless operations and 30% of its wireless spectrum licenses to T-Mobile, a transaction that it expects to close in mid-2025.

United States Cellular trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol USM.

As of January 31, 2025, USM stock price declined to $62.80 with 106,266 million shares trading.

USM has a beta of 1.17, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. USM has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

USM has a market cap of $5.34 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter United States Cellular reported $922 million in Revenue and $.26 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-18 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.13.

In the last 3 years, USM traded as high as $68.31 and as low as $13.79.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that USM belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, AVUV, VB, VBR, DFAT.

USM has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +41.4%, while the SPY ETF gained +26.1%. However, in the most recent history, USM shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning +1.8% in the last 3 month period and -2.0% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +6.2% and +0.7%, respectively.

USM support price is $62.23 and resistance is $64.81 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that USM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.