Charter Communications, Inc. (CHTR)

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Charter Communications, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 6 warning events: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 6 times, the latest 2020-10-16) (its current reports).

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Charter Communications, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $29 billion in fiscal 2016 to $55 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.3% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 1% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Charter Communications, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 5.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 21% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $4 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Charter Communications, Inc. earned about 24 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 87 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Charter Communications, Inc.'s standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $55 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 9% by size; a net margin of 9.1% ranks in the top 36%; revenue growth of 0.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 42% (its annual reports).

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Charter Communications, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Winfrey, Christopher L (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-01-19, 3.8 years (bottom 46% of its family); the 24 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10.4 years (top 21%); 15 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 people in charge now (bottom 22%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Charter Communications, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $477 million against debt of $94 billion leaves -60.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.1% of revenue (bottom 34%) (its annual report).

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Charter Communications, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.5% a year over the last three filed years against 7.3% over all 10, slowing (top 34% of its family); the newest year grew -0.6% (bottom 28%); capital spending grew 7.5% a year (top 43%) (its annual reports). Charter Communications, Inc. reported 8 product lines in fiscal 2025: Residential Internet Product Line at $24 billion (43%), Residential Video Product Line at $14 billion (25%), Commercial Smalland Medium Business Product Line at $4.3 billion (8%), and 5 more; 4 of 8 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Charter Communications, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $55 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.5% below the $56 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 16% of its family); net income of $5.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $4.9 billion (top 47%); a net margin of 9.1% against 9% before (top 47%) (its annual reports).