Valley Telephone Cooperative Coop. 401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Valley Telephone Cooperative Coop. 401(k) Retirement Plan

Valley Telephone Cooperative Coop. 401(k) Retirement Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc., headquartered in Texas. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $14M in total end-of-year assets and covers 210 participants across the Information & Media industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 741207591, and the plan has been effective since 1993-05-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $13M at the beginning of 2024 to $14M at year-end - up 8.6%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $14M, with reported net income of $1M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 3 plan years Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $33M to $32M, a decline of 3.0%, while reported participants moved from 370 to 340 (-8.1%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2022 at $33M; the softest was 2023 at $31M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $33M in assets across 2 plans covering 370 participants; 2023 - $31M in assets across 2 plans covering 357 participants; 2024 - $32M in assets across 2 plans covering 340 participants.

Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.

How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank Valley Telephone Cooperative Coop. 401(k) Retirement Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.