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At&t Inc. Communication Services Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone) S&P 500Russell 3000
$21.41Close
$163.2BMarket cap
$20.21 – $28.4252-week range
Jan 20, 2027Next report · estimated
Highlights
Cautions
- Not in an uptrend 1 of 8 trend conditions
- Lagging the market RS 23 · weaker than 77% of stocks over 12 months
- Earnings shrinking EPS −90% year on year
- Financial distress Altman Z″ in the distress zone
Price
Filing Results Screen pick 52-week high and low Adjusted prices
Key figures
Off 12-month high
25%
1wk
up 2.3%
price change
1mo
down 11.3%
price change
12-month return
down 10%
market up 11% ·
its own down 23%
F-score
—
— Not assessed
Altman Z″
0.88
Elevated risk
P/E
7.4×
price / earnings
PEG
0.07
P/E / EPS growth
P/B
1.3×
price / book
Earnings yield
up 8.6%
EBIT / enterprise value
Cheaper than
89%
of the market · markedly cheap
Revenue growth
up 3%
year on year
EPS growth
down 90%
latest quarter · -97 pts
Sales growth
up 5%
latest quarter · +3 pts
ROE
up 18%
return on equity
Free cash margin
up 15%
$19.4B FCF
D/E
1.08
long-term debt / equity
Net debt / EBITDA
2.6×
Interest cover
—EBIT / interest
Piotroski tests
Repair signals
- Revenue reaccelerating (-0% then +3%)
Trade setup
ATR%
3.4%
$0.73 a day · 2×ATR $19.94
RS
23 / 99
vs the universe
Trend
1 / 8
trend template
Relative volume
1.2×
vs 50-day average
Up/down volume
1.06
50 sessions
Implied move
—
no scheduled report
Trend template · 1 of 8
- Within 25% of the 52-week high: passes
Screen verdict
Did not qualify for any screen.
Warning signs
- Bankruptcy model reads distressed The Altman score sits inside the range historically associated with financial distress. It is used here only to exclude, never to rank, and it is a statistical band rather than a prediction about this company.
Last reported
Oct 21, 2026
Last shock
Oct 9, 2026-10% in one session3.8× volumeno filing matched-3% since
Options
$2.5M28.4% IV · activity
Financials
- Net 17%
- Free cash 15%
- Cash
- Long-term debt
| FY2020Dec 31, 2020 | FY2021Dec 31, 2021 | FY2022Dec 31, 2022 | FY2023Dec 31, 2023 | FY2024Dec 31, 2024 | FY2025Dec 31, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $143.1B | $134.0B | $120.7B | $122.4B | $122.3B | $125.6B |
| Operating income | $8.4B | $25.9B | -$4.6B | $23.5B | $19.0B | $24.2B |
| Net income | -$5.2B | $20.1B | -$8.5B | $14.4B | $10.9B | $22.0B |
| Net margin | -4% | 15% | -7% | 12% | 9% | 17% |
| Earnings per share | -$0.69 | $2.68 | -$1.12 | $1.98 | $1.52 | $3.06 |
| Free cash flow | $28.4B | $26.4B | $16.2B | $20.5B | $18.5B | $19.4B |
| Free cash margin | 20% | 20% | 13% | 17% | 15% | 15% |
| Cash | $7.9B | $19.2B | $3.7B | $6.7B | $3.3B | $18.2B |
| Long-term debt | $157.2B | $169.0B | $135.0B | $135.2B | $123.5B | $136.1B |
| Shareholders' equity | $179.2B | $183.9B | $106.5B | $117.4B | $118.2B | $126.5B |
| Shares outstanding | 7.62bn | 7.62bn | 7.62bn | 7.62bn | 7.62bn | 7.62bn |
What options price now
- Expected 1-month range The at-the-money straddle for the expiry nearest a month out, as a share of the price: the move, either way, the option market is pricing by then. The range is the price plus and minus that move; the stock ends inside it a little more often than not. Methodology
- $20 – $23 ±6.2% by Nov 27, 2026
- Swings expected vs recent The daily swings the options are priced for (implied volatility) against the swings the stock actually had over the last 20 sessions (realised volatility). Bigger means options charge for more movement than the stock has been delivering; smaller, less. On a contract row, that contract's own implied volatility over the stock's realised. Methodology
- Smaller 28.4% priced · 57.5% recent
- Next month vs later At-the-money implied volatility for 8-45 day expiries over 46-90 day ones: whether options price the coming month as choppier or calmer than the two after it. Ahead of a report it usually reads choppier, and the extra comes out once the report is out. Methodology
- About the same
- Crash protection What options that pay off in a fall cost against options that pay off in a rise (the 25-delta skew), compared with this company's own normal - the median of its stored nightly readings, once there are 20 - and with five sessions ago. Protection costs a little more than upside on most shares. More than usual means readers of the chain are paying up to insure against a drop; it does not say which way the stock will go. Methodology
- past week: costs less
Positioning
- Premium traded
- $2.5M calls $1.8M · puts $769,028 · latest session
- 0.43× +0.10 over the week
- Open interest added The change over five sessions in option positions left open overnight, calls and puts. A rise means positions were added. It cannot say whether they were bought or sold, so more calls is not a vote for a rise: a call is as often sold against shares already held. Methodology
- calls +1.20k · puts +7.76k past week
For options traders: ATM IV 28.4% (+0.9% 1w) · 1m ÷ 3m IV 1.02 · 25Δ skew 4.1 pts · Net GEX $2.0M
Most traded contracts 2
| Contract | Next day: opened, closed or mixed A large option trade on its own is ambiguous: it may have opened a position, closed one, or been one leg of a spread. Open interest is published overnight, so the next morning settles it. Opened: open interest rose by a good share of the volume traded, so positions were added. Closed: it fell, so positions were taken off. Mixed: it barely moved, as when one side opens while the other closes. A dash: the next morning's count is not in yet. None of the three says whether the contracts were bought or sold. Methodology | Volume against open interest The day's contracts traded, divided by the positions already standing. Above 1 the day's trading exceeded every position in existence, which cannot happen without something new — though only tomorrow's open interest proves it opened rather than closed. Methodology | Bid-ask spread The gap between the bid and the ask as a share of the midpoint: what a round trip costs before the position has moved at all. Methodology | Priced vs rest of chain The contract's implied volatility less the at-the-money reading for the same company, in points: how this strike is priced against the rest of the chain. Methodology | Move to break even How far the stock must move by expiry for a buyer at the midpoint to get the premium back: strike plus premium for a call, strike less premium for a put. Methodology | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2026 · $22 call +3% from price | — | 0.08 | 4.4% | -0.9% | +5.7% | $43,065 |
| Jan 15, 2027 · $23 call +7% from price | — | 0.04 | 3.8% | -1.1% | +9.7% | $28,808 |
Liquid contracts, 3 weeks to 4 months out, soonest expiry first.
Filings
| Filed | Report | Period to | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Sep 30, 2026 | 21d |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Jun 30, 2026 | 22d |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Mar 31, 2026 | 27d |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Annual ↗ | Dec 31, 2025 | 40d |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Sep 30, 2025 | 31d |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Jun 30, 2025 | 24d |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Mar 31, 2025 | 29d |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Annual ↗ | Dec 31, 2024 | 43d |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Sep 30, 2024 | 29d |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Jun 30, 2024 | 25d |
| May 2, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Mar 31, 2024 | 32d |
| Feb 23, 2024 | Annual ↗ | Dec 31, 2023 | 54d |
Current reports
| Filed | Disclosed |
|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Director or officer change ↗ |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Director or officer change ↗ |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Other events ↗ |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Other events ↗ |
| Jul 28, 2026 | New obligation · Regulation FD ↗ |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Director or officer change ↗ |
| May 20, 2026 | Director or officer change · Charter or bylaws · Shareholder vote ↗ |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Other events ↗ |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Other events ↗ |