5 Wireless Telecom Stocks to Sell

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tdp2664 InvestorPlace The highly competitive wireless telecom industry takes no prisoners. Either you have an upper-echelon phone — like Apple ‘s (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPhone or a 4G Android device by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) — with enough infrastructure to wrap around the globe a few hundred times, or you’re left in the dust wondering why you even created a phone company in the first place. What’s worse, even with these attributes, the highly regulated and expensive operations of this industry makes profiting from the ears of would-be customers as difficult as you can imagine. These five sad sacks of the wireless telecom world have come up with poor reception on Wall Street for the past year. I watch more than 5,000 publicly traded companies with my Portfolio Grader tool, ranking companies by a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. And this week, I’ve got five wireless telecom stocks to sell. Here they are, in alphabetical order. Each one of these stocks gets a "D" or "F" according to my research, meaning it is a "sell" or "strong sell." MetroPCS Communications (NYSE: PCS ) is a wireless telecommunications provider in the United States. PCS stock is down 40% in the past year. PCS stock gets a "D" for operating margin growth, a "D" for earnings growth, an "F" for its ability to exceed the consensus earnings estimates on Wall Street, a "D" for the magnitude in which earnings projections have increased during the past month and a "D" for cash flow in my Portfolio Grader tool. For more information, view my complete analysis of PCS stock . Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE: MBT ) is a telecommunications provider in Russia. In the past 12 months, MBT stock has lost 23% compared to a gain of 6% for the Dow Jones. MBT stock gets a "D" for operating margin growth, a "D" for earnings growth,