T-Mobile US
T-Mobile US's revenue rose 8.5% to $88.3 billion in fiscal 2025. Its operating margin was 20.7%, down from 22.1% a year earlier. Free cash flow was $18.0 billion, up 33.8%. It paid out $14.1 billion in dividends and buybacks, 78% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 3.6%.
Operating margin is operating income as a share of revenue. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending. Return on capital is after-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash. Market cap is the last closing share price times the latest diluted share count, so it is approximate. P/E is the last close divided by diluted earnings per share over the last four quarters, or the latest fiscal year where the quarters aren't available; there is none when the company made a loss.
What T-Mobile US does
T-Mobile US is a mobile phone company. It sells wireless phone and data plans and home internet through a 5G fixed wireless service that runs over its cell network and, in some places, fiber lines. Its brands are T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile. It also sells phones, tablets and other devices, often paid off in monthly installments, and rents network access to other companies that resell service under their own names. Nearly all of its revenue comes from the United States.
At the end of 2025 it served 142.4 million customers. Most of its service revenue comes from postpaid customers, who pay after using the service, at 81%; prepaid customers made up 15% and wholesale and other services 4%. Total revenues grew by $6.9 billion in 2025. T-Mobile says it is the second-largest US wireless carrier by customers; its main rivals are AT&T and Verizon, and in home internet, cable, satellite and fiber providers.
In August 2025 it bought the wireless business of UScellular. It sells through its own stores, websites and apps, and through national retailers and dealers. Deutsche Telekom owns about 52.8% of its shares and controls the T-Mobile trademarks it uses. It had about 75,000 full-time and part-time employees at the end of 2025.
Its biggest risks, as it describes them
- Losing customers in a highly competitive industry, or failing to win new ones.
- Cyberattacks and data breaches, which it has suffered before.
- The scarcity and cost of wireless spectrum, the airwaves its network needs.
- Folding in the UScellular business, which may bring network and customer problems.
- Deutsche Telekom controls most of the votes and the T-Mobile name, and its interests may differ from other shareholders'.
Charts show fiscal years, from the 10-K filings.
Revenue and margins
Net income and earnings per share
From fiscal 2016 to 2025, earnings per share grew 21.5% a year and net income 25.1% a year, as new shares raised the share count by 36% and diluted each share's earnings.
Returns on capital
Cash flow
Payouts and share count
Valuation
Two ways to value T-Mobile US yourself, both starting from its filings: a discounted cash flow model and the price-to-earnings method.
Discounted cash flow (DCF)
A discounted cash flow (DCF) model values a business as the cash it may generate in future, discounted back to today. The starting figures come from T-Mobile US's 10-K (or, for net cash and shares, its latest 10-Q) and the assumptions are yours: start from one of three example scenarios, then change any figure to see what it implies for a share, and how that compares with the last share price.
Value per share on three example scenarios, from T-Mobile US's fiscal 2025 free cash flow of $18.0B, net cash of −$88.1B at December 31, 2025 and 1,131 million diluted shares, from its filings. The scenarios are fitted to T-Mobile US: the base scenario's growth in years 1 to 5 is its revenue growth over the last 3 years, 3.5% a year; the cautious and optimistic ones are lower and higher, and growth in years 6 to 10 is halfway to the long-run rate. The base scenario's discount rate is 8%: 7% for a stable business (Wireless Telecommunication Services), plus 1 point for unsteady results (revenue fell in two of the last five years); the cautious and optimistic ones use a point more and a point less. Select one to load it into the calculator. These are the model's arithmetic on those assumptions, not a forecast or a price target.
- Last close, October 26, 2026
- $146.93
- Value on these assumptions, against the last close
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- Cash flows in years 1 to 10, valued today
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- Everything after year 10, valued today
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- Plus net cash
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- Share of value from after year 10
How the value changes with two assumptions
Price-to-earnings (P/E) method
Another common way to value a company is to multiply its earnings per share by a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple: the number of years of today's earnings an investor pays for a share. A higher multiple usually means investors expect earnings to grow. Choose a multiple, for example from similar companies, to see the value it gives.
Value per share on three example scenarios, from T-Mobile US's earnings per share of $9.57 (over the last four quarters). Each grows earnings for a year at the cash flow scenarios' rates and applies a multiple to next year's earnings: 16.6×, the average of the Communication Services median and T-Mobile US's own P/E today for the base scenario, 20% less and more for the cautious and optimistic ones. The price is brought back a year at 9%, 8% and 7%. Select one to load it into the calculator. These are the model's arithmetic on those assumptions, not a forecast or a price target.
- Last close, October 26, 2026
- $146.93
- Value at this multiple, against the last close
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- T-Mobile US's P/E at the last close
- 15.4×
Balance sheet
| Fiscal year end | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and short-term investments | 6.6 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 80.1 | 79.7 | 81.1 | 84.7 | 93.7 |
| Net debt (negative means net cash) | 73.5 | 75.1 | 76.0 | 79.2 | 88.1 |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 3.2x | 3.7x | 2.8x | 2.6x | 2.8x |
| Debt to equity | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.6x |
| Interest coverage | 2.2x | 1.9x | 4.0x | 4.9x | 4.7x |
| Current ratio | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 1.0x |
| Quick ratio | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.9x |
Insider trades
Over the 12 months between October 27, 2025 and October 26, 2026, 2 insiders bought $3.0 million of T-Mobile US shares on the open market, and 11 insiders sold $190.0 million, $41.3 million of it under trading plans set up in advance.
| Date | Insider | Trade | Shares | Price | Value | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | Daniel James DrobacVP & Chief Accounting Officer | Sold plan | 772 | $178.33 | $137,671 | Form 4 |
| May 21, 2026 | Jon FreierChief Operating Officer | Sold plan | 4,799 | $190.00 | $911,810 | Form 4 |
| May 1, 2026 | Andre AlmeidaChief Broadband, Ent. & Emerg | Bought | 5,097 | $196.18 | $1.0 million | Form 4 |
| May 1, 2026 | Michael J. KatzChief Bus. and Prod. Officer | Sold | 5,000 | $195.81 | $979,050 | Form 4 |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Srikant M. DatarDirector | Sold | 1,000 | $218.25 | $218,250 | Form 4 |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Srikant M. DatarDirector | Sold | 3,291 | $221.10 | $727,640 | Form 4 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Mark Wolfe NelsonChief Legal Officer & GC | Sold | 2,329 | $222.38 | $517,967 | Form 4 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Sievert G MichaelDirector | Sold | 1,089 | $221.85 | $241,595 | Form 4 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Sievert G MichaelDirector | Sold | 13,911 | $220.07 | $3.1 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 19, 2026 | Sievert G MichaelDirector | Sold | 80,000 | $214.94 | $17.2 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Peter OsvaldikChief Financial Officer | Sold | 27,000 | $214.86 | $5.8 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Mark Wolfe NelsonChief Legal Officer & GC | Sold plan | 6,274 | $219.69 | $1.4 million | Form 4 |
Piotroski F-score
The F-score counts how many of nine simple tests of profitability, funding and efficiency a company passed in a year (Piotroski, 2000). The more tests passed, the stronger the year: 8 or 9 is strong, 0 to 2 weak. Companies that report no gross profit are scored on the other eight.
| Test | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Cash from operations is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Return on assets rose | Pass | Pass | Fail |
| Cash from operations exceeds net income | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Debt fell relative to assets | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| Current ratio rose | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Share count didn't rise | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Gross margin rose | — | — | — |
| Revenue rose relative to assets | Fail | Pass | Pass |
| F-score | 6 of 8 | 7 of 8 | 6 of 8 |
| Accruals ratio | −4.9% | −5.3% | −7.9% |
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10 years of figures
| Fiscal year | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| Revenue | 37.5 | 40.6 | 43.3 | 45.0 | 68.4 | 80.1 | 79.6 | 78.6 | 81.4 | 88.3 |
| Revenue growth | 15.5% | 8.3% | 6.7% | 3.9% | 52.0% | 17.1% | −0.7% | −1.3% | 3.6% | 8.5% |
| Gross profit | 26.7 | 29.0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Research and development | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating income | 4.0 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 6.6 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 14.3 | 18.0 | 18.3 |
| Net income | 1.5 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 8.3 | 11.3 | 11.0 |
| Diluted EPS (US$) | 1.69 | 5.20 | 3.36 | 4.02 | 2.65 | 2.41 | 2.06 | 6.93 | 9.66 | 9.72 |
| Diluted shares (millions) | 833 | 872 | 858 | 863 | 1,155 | 1,255 | 1,255 | 1,200 | 1,173 | 1,131 |
| Cash flow | ||||||||||
| Cash from operations | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 6.8 | 8.6 | 13.9 | 16.8 | 18.6 | 22.3 | 27.9 |
| Capital expenditure | 4.7 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 11.0 | 12.3 | 14.0 | 9.8 | 8.8 | 10.0 |
| Free cash flow | −1.9 | −1.4 | −1.6 | 0.4 | −2.4 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 8.8 | 13.5 | 18.0 |
| Dividends paid | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
| Share buybacks | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 19.5 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 13.1 | 11.2 | 10.0 |
| Acquisitions | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 3.5 |
| Stock-based compensation | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| Balance sheet at fiscal year end | ||||||||||
| Cash and short-term investments | 5.5 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 10.4 | 6.6 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 21.8 | 12.1 | 13.0 | 27.3 | 78.2 | 80.1 | 79.7 | 81.1 | 84.7 | 93.7 |
| Total assets | 65.9 | 70.6 | 72.5 | 86.9 | 200.2 | 206.6 | 211.3 | 207.7 | 208.0 | 219.2 |
| Total liabilities | 47.7 | 48.0 | 47.8 | 58.1 | 134.8 | 137.5 | 141.7 | 143.0 | 146.3 | 160.0 |
| Shareholders' equity | 18.2 | 22.6 | 24.7 | 28.8 | 65.3 | 69.1 | 69.7 | 64.7 | 61.7 | 59.2 |
| Margins and ratios | ||||||||||
| Gross margin | 71.1% | 71.4% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating margin | 10.8% | 12.0% | 12.3% | 12.7% | 9.7% | 8.6% | 8.2% | 18.2% | 22.1% | 20.7% |
| Net margin | 3.9% | 11.2% | 6.7% | 7.7% | 4.5% | 3.8% | 3.2% | 10.6% | 13.9% | 12.4% |
| Free cash flow margin | −5.1% | −3.5% | −3.8% | 1.0% | −3.5% | 2.0% | 3.5% | 11.2% | 16.5% | 20.4% |
| Return on capital | 7.9% | 14.4% | 11.2% | 9.5% | 5.5% | 4.5% | 3.8% | 7.6% | 9.8% | 9.8% |
| Return on equity | 8.4% | 22.2% | 12.2% | 13.0% | 6.5% | 4.5% | 3.7% | 12.4% | 17.9% | 18.2% |
| Return on assets | 2.3% | 6.7% | 4.0% | 4.3% | 2.1% | 1.5% | 1.2% | 4.0% | 5.5% | 5.2% |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 1.6x | 1.0x | 1.0x | 2.1x | 3.3x | 3.2x | 3.7x | 2.8x | 2.6x | 2.8x |