The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.
Diluted shares outstanding: 5.73B (2021) → 5.64B (2025)
Telefónica, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services in Europe and Latin America. The company offers mobile and related services and products, including mobile voice, value added, mobile data and internet, wholesale, corporate, roaming, fixed wireless, and trunking and paging services; traditional fixed telecommunication services, such as PSTN lines; ISDN accesses; public telephone services; local, domestic, and international long-distance and fixed-to-mobile communications; corporate communications; supplementary value-added services; video telephony; intelligent network; telephony information services; and leases and sells handset equipment. It also provides internet provider service; portal and network, retail and wholesale broadband access, narrowband switched access and other technologies, internet through fibre to the home, very high bit-rate digital subscriber line, and voice over internet protocol services; leased line, virtual private network, fibre optics, web and managed hosting, content delivery and application, security, and outsourcing and consultancy services, including network management or CGP; and desktop, system integration, and professional services. In addition, the company offers wholesale services for telecommunication operators, such as domestic interconnection and international wholesale services; leased lines for other operators; and local loop leasing services, as well as bit stream services, wholesale line rental accesses, and leased ducts for other operators' fiber deployment. Further, it provides video/TV services; smart connectivity and services; financial and other payment, cloud, security, advertising, and big data services; digital products; Aura, an artificial-intelligence ecosystem; Movistar Home device; open gateway; living apps; smart Wi-Fi; NT; Solar 360; and Phoenix, a digital sales platform. Telefónica, S.A. was incorporated in 1924 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.
-10.4% YoY
YoY Growth Rate
Revenue declining
+67.6% YoY
YoY Growth Rate
Strong earnings growth
$964M/ year
↑ Rising (+49% vs prior year)
2.9% of revenue
Below sector average (12%)
R&D investment increasing — building for the future
Cash flow positive
$14.5B cash & investments
Quarterly Free Cash Flow
↓ Burn rate worsening
Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising
Telefónica, S.A.'s revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.
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ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.
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FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.
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Interest coverage below 1. Their profits don't cover the interest bill.
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Yield above 6% — often a flag the market is pricing in a cut.
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