AT&T Inc. operates in the Telephone communications, exc. radio sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares AT&T Inc. with three other telecommunications providers in North America: T-Mobile Us Inc (2020 sales of $68.40 billion of which 100% was Lease of mobile communication devices), Verizon Communications ($128.29 billion of which 69% was Consumer), and Comcast Corporation ($103.56 billion of which 58% was Cable Communications).

Sales Analysis. During the second quarter of 2021, sales at AT&T Inc. totalled $44.05 billion. This is an increase of 7.6% from the $40.95 billion in sales at the company during the second quarter of 2020. During the first two quarters of 2021, sales totalled $87.98 billion, which is 5.1% higher than through the first two quarters of 2020. There appears to be at least some degree of seasonality in the sales at AT&T Inc.: during 8 of the previous 9 years, sales were highest during the fourth quarter. The exception to this was during 2012, when the first quarter was the best quarter, accounting for 26% of sales (during that same year, the fourth quarter accounted for 22% of sales). AT&T Inc. reported sales of $171.76 billion for the year ending December of 2020. This represents a decrease of 5.2% versus 2019, when the company's sales were $181.19 billion. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 17.9% decline in Latin America, from $6.96 billion to $5.72 billion. There were also decreases in sales in Communications (down 2.5% to $138.85 billion) and Warnermedia (down 9.1% to $30.44 billion) . However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of Corporate and Other (up 15.3% to $1.93 billion) .