Following T-Mobile’s release of initial Q4 results, Wells Fargo has now posted several updates to its guidance for the company for the quarter. Although these were preliminary results, the news is looking mostly up for the nation’s third-largest carrier. In fact, both the carrier’s postpaid net adds – which represent new subscribers before taking churn into account – and postpaid phone adds beat out the firm’s previous expectations. T-Mobile reported 1.1 million branded net postpaid additions and 891,000 postpaid phone adds. That, along with some of the company’s other reported figures prompted Wells Fargo to summarily increase its outlook for T-Mobile’s EBITDA, both adjusted and core, and its Q4 revenue estimates for the company. In terms of revenue, Wells Fargo now predicts the carrier to bring in around $30 million more than previously expected – an increase of around 0.27-percent. Meanwhile, EBITDA has also been tweaked in the upward direction, by around 0.79-percent with regard to the adjusted and 5.17-percent for the core EBITDA.
However, it isn’t necessarily all good news for T-Mobile. Wells Fargo and analysts in the industry do expect T-Mobile to continue on its growth path into next year and the carrier is expecting to report 3.6 million net branded adds for the full year. That growth is predicted to be at a much slower pace as compared to previous years because of both market saturation within the country and churn. T-Mobile’s initial report placed churn at 1.18-percent and down by 10 basis points year-over-year, but analysts have previously speculated that churn would continue the 2017 trends and cut into growth for every carrier. In those prior reports, T-Mobile’s churn was expected to be somewhat less than other carriers and the initial reports seem to track well with that. Bearing that in mind, with market saturation becoming a barrier to general growth more as time goes on, churn will have an increasing effect on growth.
Having said that, the outlook for T-Mobile appears to be moving in an upward trend for now despite that growth is slowing. That slowing is actually predicted to happen across the entire mobile cell services industry, and some market analysts view T-Mobile’s preliminary report as a sign of a healthy market. That’s especially true, with consideration for the negative impact that was expected to follow T-Mobile and Sprint’s failed merger last year.
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