United States telephone communications excluding radiotelephone industry landscape illustrating listed-company operations, infrastructure and market activity

Prism Finance USA · comparison snapshot

Top Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone Stocks in USA

Name: Top Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone Stocks in USA comparison snapshot
Creator: Fliar BI Prism

Five U.S.-listed telephone communications excluding radiotelephone names, read through one evidence stack: market path, official filing history, profitability, readiness, Prism attention and industry context.

Snapshot: 02 September 2026Not investment adviceRanked by Prism readiness

Readiness leaderiQSTEL · 44

Strongest available pathTDS · +83.9%

Widest latest marginIDT · 6.2%

Companies compared5 · U.S.-listed

01 · Readiness ranking

Five companies, one comparable score

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Readiness #1IQST · NASDAQ

iQSTEL

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone

Founded 2011Coral Gables, Florida$9.9M market cap

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44Cautious

Snapshot price$0.91as of page date

Monthly-close return-97.5%five-year window

FY2025 revenue$0.32BiQSTEL Inc

Net margin-2.7%FY2025

Prism attention0.4%share across these five

Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions

+389.8%

FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 48.8%

52-week position1% through range

$0.87$7.23

News mentions398

Community mentions0partial coverage

U.S.-scope patents0

Prism InsightsWhat sits behind the readiness signal
Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk

Earnings signal66/100
Management stability70/100
Market position12/100
Capital-event signal25/100
Innovation pulse21/100

Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 11 M&A involvements, 0 asset-acquisition events and 5 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 4 lifetime product-launch events, 1 in the latest 360 days, and 17 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #2LUMN · NYSE

CenturyLink

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone

Founded 2007BATON ROUGE$7.02B market cap

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43Cautious

Snapshot price$6.81as of page date

Monthly-close return-45.0%five-year window

FY2025 revenue$11.33BLumen Technologies, Inc.

Net margin-15.3%FY2025

P/E snapshot-23.0xone ratio, not a verdict

Prism attention8.5%share across these five

Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions

-36.3%

FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR -10.7%

52-week position30% through range

$4.57$11.95

News mentions7.7K

Community mentions0partial coverage

U.S.-scope patents2030

Prism InsightsWhat sits behind the readiness signal
Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk

Earnings signal45/100
Management stability90/100
Market position32/100
Capital-event signal40/100
Innovation pulse0/100

Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 62 M&A involvements, 21 asset-acquisition events and 55 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 18 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #3IDT · NYSE

IDT

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone

Founded 2010Watertown, South Dakota$1.71B market cap

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37Cautious

Snapshot price$68.94as of page date

Monthly-close return+64.3%five-year window

FY2025 revenue$1.23BIDT CORP

Net margin6.2%FY2025

P/E snapshot21.1xone ratio, not a verdict

Prism attention4.4%share across these five

Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions

-14.9%

FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR -4.0%

52-week position96% through range

$45.72$69.90

News mentions4.0K

Community mentions0partial coverage

U.S.-scope patents6839

Prism InsightsWhat sits behind the readiness signal
Observed risk 7/100higher means more observed risk

Earnings signal70/100
Management stability90/100
Market position12/100
Capital-event signal0/100
Innovation pulse0/100

Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 11 M&A involvements, 0 asset-acquisition events and 0 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 2 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

Recent available records contain 2 lawsuit, 0 regulatory and 0 layoff events across their stated windows.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #4SHEN · Nasdaq

Shentel

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone

Founded 1902Luray, Virginia$699.3M market cap

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35Cautious

Snapshot price$12.63as of page date

Monthly-close return-60.0%five-year window

FY2025 revenue$0.36BSHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CO/VA/

Net margin-9.2%FY2025

Prism attention0.8%share across these five

Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions

+45.9%

FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 9.9%

52-week position39% through range

$9.67$17.35

News mentions754

Community mentions0partial coverage

U.S.-scope patents0

Prism InsightsWhat sits behind the readiness signal
Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk

Earnings signal42/100
Management stability90/100
Market position19/100
Capital-event signal10/100
Innovation pulse3/100

Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 5 M&A involvements, 11 asset-acquisition events and 2 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 1 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #5TDS · NYSE

TDS

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone

Founded 1969Madison, Wisconsin$4.13B market cap

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34Cautious

Snapshot price$35.87as of page date

Monthly-close return+83.9%five-year window

FY2025 revenue$1.07BTELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC /DE/

Net margin-0.6%FY2025

P/E snapshot9.0xone ratio, not a verdict

Prism attention85.9%share across these five

Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions

-79.5%

FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR -32.7%

52-week position25% through range

$31.51$49.12

News mentions77.7K

Community mentions0partial coverage

U.S.-scope patents12

Prism InsightsWhat sits behind the readiness signal
Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk

Earnings signal50/100
Management stability90/100
Market position10/100
Capital-event signal0/100
Innovation pulse0/100

Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 3 M&A involvements, 1 asset-acquisition events and 1 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

02 · Side-by-side

The comparisons that change the picture

Every bar preserves its own meaning. Price return, revenue scale, profitability and attention are deliberately not blended into one recommendation.

Available monthly-close return

Dated window printed on each company card; not a forecast.

TDS

+83.9%

IDT

+64.3%

CenturyLink

-45.0%

Shentel

-60.0%

iQSTEL

-97.5%

Latest revenue

USD billions, official filing scope shown on each company card.

CenturyLink

$11.33B

IDT

$1.23B

TDS

$1.07B

Shentel

$0.36B

iQSTEL

$0.32B

Latest profit margin

Company-card labels distinguish continuing-operations and net-income scope.

IDT

6.2%

TDS

-0.6%

iQSTEL

-2.7%

Shentel

-9.2%

CenturyLink

-15.3%

Prism news attention

Normalized share across these five names; attention is not quality.

TDS

85.9%

CenturyLink

8.5%

IDT

4.4%

Shentel

0.8%

iQSTEL

0.4%

03 · Prism readout

What the signals say—and what they do not

The headline share is normalized telephone communications excluding radiotelephone news attention across these five names. Partial community coverage and U.S.-scope patent records are displayed separately and are not blended into it.

Scale + attention

TDS leads the conversation

It holds 85.9% of measured telephone communications excluding radiotelephone news attention and also carries the basket's largest revenue base at $1.07B.

Price path

TDS leads the available price paths

Its monthly-close return is +83.9% for the five-year window. At the other end, iQSTEL is -97.5% for its five-year window. Windows printed on each card must be compared carefully; price history is not a forecast.

Profitability

IDT has the widest latest margin

Its FY2025 net margin is 6.2%. Its revenue history in this snapshot spans only the periods printed on its card, so longer histories are not treated as equivalent.

Price vs operating signals

CenturyLink shows why one ratio is not a verdict

It has the basket's lowest snapshot P/E at -23.0x while its five-year window price return is -45.0%. Valuation, price path and readiness answer different questions.

04 · Research areas

Deeper Prism readout where coverage is dense

Shown only for companies with more than 800 available Prism news records. Counts describe the available research corpus, not company quality.

Areas of research · LUMN

CenturyLink

7,714available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response

Leadership & governance

Earnings & financial performance

Capital allocation & transactions

Legal, arbitration & regulatory

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+7.0%429 latest 12m vs 401 prior 12m

Machine-classified coverage tone

70.9% positive-8.0 pp vs preceding four quarters

24Q3

24Q4

25Q1

25Q2

25Q3

25Q4

26Q1

26Q2

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

residential broadband 100consumer internet plans 72fiber internet 70high-bandwidth broadband 62ultra-fast isp 60high-speed broadband 60home internet 59cable broadband 57

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-15–2026-06-03 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06

Areas of research · IDT

IDT

4,020available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Earnings & financial performance

Price action & investor response

Capital allocation & transactions

Legal, arbitration & regulatory

Leadership & governance

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+26.7%607 latest 12m vs 479 prior 12m

Machine-classified coverage tone

85.2% positive-4.6 pp vs preceding four quarters

24Q3

24Q4

25Q1

25Q2

25Q3

25Q4

26Q1

26Q2

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

crispr-cas9 33earnings report 31diagnostic biotechnology 29crispr applications 26gene delivery systems 24synthetic biology 20annual earnings 16financial report 15

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-06-19 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06

Areas of research · TDS

TDS

77,737available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Legal, arbitration & regulatory

1,641

Price action & investor response

1,559

Macro demand & rates

230

Earnings & financial performance

208

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+40.3%15,705 latest 12m vs 11,191 prior 12m

Machine-classified coverage tone

77.8% positive+0.4 pp vs preceding four quarters

24Q4

25Q1

25Q2

25Q3

25Q4

26Q1

26Q2

26Q3

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

mutual fund strategies 4,858asset allocation funds 4,323multi-asset funds 3,900balanced funds 3,563underlying fund analysis 3,539portfolio of funds 3,530hybrid funds 2,691fund run risk 2,509

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-08-03 · trend and themes shown through 2026-08

05 · Community discussion

Common topics where conversation clears the gate

Shown only above 25 entity-matched mentions. Coverage is partial and topic counts exclude identified namesake noise.

06 · Company event log

Common news types and recent highlights

Event patterns and selected recent headlines come from available Prism company-event records since 2023. Obvious forecast, holdings, duplicate and retrospective noise is filtered.

IQST

iQSTEL

through 2026-04-24

Earnings releases 43Company announcements 38M&A 10

2026-04-24
Earnings releases
On April 6th IQST reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025. Total Revenue came in at $316.9 million with 11.0% growth over 2024 and the company achieved a Gross Profit of $9.46 million, up 14.3% over 2024.
2026-03-31
Company announcements
Company to Present Strategic Expansion into Digital Health as a New High‑Growth Vertical
2025-06-04
M&A
On May 29, 2025, IQSTEL officially closed the acquisition of a 51% stake in GlobeTopper, a profitable fintech company specializing in enhanced B2B top‑up and digital prepaid services.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

LUMN

CenturyLink

through 2023-10-23

Asset acquisitions 4Leadership changes 2Earnings releases 1M&A 1

2023-10-23
Leadership changes
CenturyLink has hired Dell EMC veteran Gaurav Chand as executive VP of marketing.
2023-10-23
Asset acquisitions
CenturyLink itself is looking to sell its own physical data centers to a third party -- if possible.
2023-10-23
Earnings releases
CenturyLink's overall hosting and cloud revenues were $307 million for the quarter, down about $11 million from the corresponding quarter last year.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

IDT

through 2026-02-04

Earnings releases 36Lawsuits 2Leadership changes 2Company announcements 1M&A 1

2026-02-04
Earnings releases
IDT's 2025 sales reached 465.7 billion won, up about 17 percent year-on-year, and the company posted an operating profit of 9.9 billion won.
2025-12-03
Lawsuits
the decision dismissed all claims against IDT and found that contrary to the plaintiff’s claims, Straight Path’s stockholders did not incur any damages whatsoever.
2025-02-14
M&A
As revealed by Waters during the earnings call, IDT has placed a bet on the growth of the millimeter wave market with a $13 million acquisition of SpectraBeam.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

SHEN

Shentel

through 2026-03-05

Earnings releases 6Asset acquisitions 5M&A 2Business contracts 1Company announcements 1

2026-03-05
Earnings releases
Residential and SMB incumbent broadband markets' revenue declined $5.1 million, or 2.9%.
2026-03-02
Company announcements
Shentel is moving quickly to complete its fiber broadband build by the end of this year, ending 2025 with about 427,000 homes and businesses in its Glo Fiber expansion markets and, in incumbent broadband markets, more than doubling subsidized passings year-over-year to 22,000.
2025-01-02
Business contracts
Vertical Bridge also purchased 226 towers from Shenandoah Telecommunications (Shentel) for $310.3 million in cash earlier this year.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

TDS

through 2024-07-28

Lawsuits 3Asset acquisitions 1Earnings releases 1Leadership changes 1

2024-07-28
Leadership changes
Thomas Power is the group managing director at business information and marketing services company, TDS.
2024-06-03
Asset acquisitions
Last week, TDS reached a deal to sell its US Cellular wireless business to T-Mobile for $4.4 billion.
2024-05-01
Earnings releases
Telephone & Data Systems Inc. is scheduled to report 1st quarter earnings on 05/03/2024, before the market opens.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

07 · Industry landscape

Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone Industry in USA

A bottom-of-page sector lens combining Prism's exact U.S. market-growth extraction with tightly matched U.S.-primary telephone communications excluding radiotelephone news. It adds context to the stock basket without turning industry signals into a recommendation.

Prism market forecast extraction

telecommunications market

12 sources100.0% extraction confidence

2015 extracted base$12.50B

2028 extracted forecast$10.90B

Implied source CAGR5.3%

5G Developmentsstrong mobile phone penetrationemerging fixed broadband take-up

Multi-source card returned by Prism's /special_extraction market-growth service. Extracted geography mix: Global, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Myanmar. This is a dated market benchmark, not a forecast for the five-stock basket.

Prism news insights

U.S. Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone news pulse

49,211available Prism news records

Latest 12m volume+14.4%23147 vs 20233 records

Positive classified tone61.4%+7.5 pp vs prior four quarters

24Q4

25Q1

25Q2

25Q3

25Q4

26Q1

26Q2

26Q3

Available U.S.-primary Prism records matching communication, excluding, radiotelephone, telephone, telecommunication. Metadata counts can overlap; coverage volume and tone are not measures of industry output.

Recurring Prism themes

public communications and press briefings

8,388

white house staff and advisors

6,230

satellite communication technologies

4,499

vaccine hesitancy and public perception

4,485

media and politics

3,853

political satire and commentary

3,636

Metadata occurrences; one record can contribute more than one theme.

Frequent industry keywords

vaccine decision-making 5,592anti-vaccination sentiment 5,544vaccine trust building 5,544vaccine misinformation impact 5,369parental vaccine concerns 5,334vaccine refusal reasons 5,222vaccine acceptance barriers 5,063vaccine attitude studies 5,007

Counts cover the matched industry corpus, not the broader company-news totals above.

Curated signal map

Opportunity and caution, side by side

Evidence prompts—not probabilities.

Opportunity · market driver

5G Developments

12 forecast sources

A recurring driver in the extracted market evidence provides a measurable research thread for the sector.

Prism /special_extraction market-growth card

Opportunity · demand

public communications and press briefings

8,388 matched theme records

The largest current Prism news theme shows where sector attention and reported activity are concentrating.

Prism U.S. news metadata

Opportunity · innovation

Innovation and product activity

3,569 matched news records

Technology, product and R&D metadata provide an auditable view of the sector's innovation conversation.

Unique news records matching the curated innovation rule

Caution · market restraint

aging population

784 macro/risk records

The extracted restraint and the measured macro-news pulse belong in the downside research frame.

Prism market-growth restraint plus U.S. news metadata

Caution · news pulse

Coverage growth can reverse

+14.4% news volume

The latest 12 months contain 23,147 matched records versus 20,233 in the previous window.

Available Prism coverage through 2026-05-05

Caution · sentiment

Classified tone is not demand

61.4% positive · +7.5pp

Machine-classified news tone is useful context, but it is not revenue, output or a return forecast.

Eight-quarter Prism sentiment series

Opportunity and caution cards are curated research prompts grounded in the counts shown; they are not probabilities, recommendations or forecasts. News coverage runs 2024-01-01–2026-05-05; the latest quarter may be partial.

Explore the broader U.S. industrial landscape →

08 · Scope and sources

How to read this snapshot

Basket and ranking

Five currently eligible U.S.-listed issuers classified under SEC SIC 4813 (Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone). The builder rechecks price, filing and Prism evidence before assembling the basket. This is a focused research comparison, not a complete sector index.

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Evidence used

Official annual filingsFY revenue history and latest profitability
U.S. exchange market snapshotDated price, 52-week range, P/E, market capitalisation and monthly-close return
Fliar BI PrismReadiness, company and industry news, community context and U.S.-scope patent records
Prism market-growth extractionDated third-party Telephone Communications Excluding Radiotelephone Industry in USA market benchmark with source-count, geography and confidence context

Important: Research and educational information only. Not investment advice, a recommendation, or a live-price service. Market figures are dated as of 02 September 2026.

09 · Final derived analysis

Conclusions, comparisons, anomalies, explanations and decisions

A final evidence-linked synthesis of the metrics already displayed above. Every named company opens its actual Companies Radar profile.

Conclusions

iQSTEL leads the readiness ranking

Its Prism readiness score is 44/100, the highest in this five-company comparison.

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Scale and margin leadership sit with CenturyLink and IDT

CenturyLink has the largest displayed latest revenue at $11.33B; IDT has the widest displayed latest margin at 6.2%.

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Comparisons

Strongest versus weakest available price path

TDS is +83.9% for its five-year window; iQSTEL is -97.5% for its five-year window.

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Largest versus smallest displayed revenue base

The latest displayed revenue ranges from $11.33B for CenturyLink to $0.32B for iQSTEL. Entity and filing-period labels remain visible on the company cards.

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Anomalies

TDS has the widest attention-readiness rank gap

It ranks #1 by measured news attention (85.9%) and #5 by Prism readiness. The gap is a review flag, not evidence that either measure is wrong.

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iQSTEL shows a price-operating divergence to inspect

Its displayed filing-revenue change is +389.8% while its available monthly-close return is -97.5%. The signs differ, but the two measures cover different windows and do not establish causality.

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Explanations

Attention measures coverage volume, not quality

TDS's 85.9% share says it appears most often in the matched Prism corpus. It does not score whether that coverage is favourable or whether the company is investable.

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Different windows explain why signals can disagree

Revenue comes from the printed filing periods, price paths use the dated monthly-close windows, and Prism signals use their stated event windows. No causal attribution is made across them.

Research decisions

Verify the readiness leader in Companies Radar

Open iQSTEL's company profile and inspect the underlying management, market-activity, innovation and risk evidence before relying on the 44/100 score.

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Stress-test the largest divergence before forming a view

Compare iQSTEL's profile with TDS's profile, then reconcile the displayed filing and price windows. This is a next-research action, not a buy or sell decision.

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Method boundary: These are deterministic comparisons of the displayed snapshot fields. They flag relationships for further research, do not establish causality and are not investment recommendations.