Company Analysis

Optimum Communications, Inc. (OPTU)

NYSE: OPTU · Cable & Other Pay Television Services · Long Island City, NY · filing with the SEC since 2017
Grade3.2
◀ Past 2.8● Present 3.3▶ Future 3.3

The grade of Optimum Communications, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.2/10
◀ Past2.825% of the headline
● Present3.335% of the headline
▶ Future3.340% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

2.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
0.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2026-09-21.

weight 22% of this tense · 8th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Optimum Communications, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2026-08-14); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2026-09-21) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.1/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 7 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 41st percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Optimum Communications, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $6.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $8.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span4.0%bottom 34% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 28% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 47% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak14.9%bottom 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.1% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 15 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 24th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Optimum Communications, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 15 sales (6 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-28 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 41% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

3.3/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
2.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

Leverage 106%: owes 106¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 23rd percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Optimum Communications, Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 19 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 106 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 3% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 39% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 43% of 18 in its family; net margin -16.7%.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Optimum Communications, Inc.'s standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $8.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 21% by size; a net margin of -16.7% ranks in the bottom 31%; revenue growth of -3.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 19% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$8.59Btop 21% of its family
  • net margin-16.7%bottom 31% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-3.8%bottom 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
3.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 38% of 14 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2022.

weight 22% of this tense · 38th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Optimum Communications, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mathew, Dennis (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-10-07, 4.1 years (top 46% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.6 years (bottom 46%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 16%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge8 in three years among 11 peoplebottom 16% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed7.6 yearsbottom 46% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record4.1 yearstop 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.3/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 30% of 16 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 30th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Optimum Communications, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.1 billion against debt of $26 billion leaves -81.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -1.4% of revenue (bottom 16%); a gross margin of 69.3% (top 28%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-81.6%bottom 3% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-1.4%bottom 16% of its family
  • gross margin69.3%top 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 43% of 16 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Optimum Communications, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.8% a year over the last three filed years against 4% over all 10, slowing (top 47% of its family); the newest year grew -4.1% (bottom 22%); research spending grew 50% a year (top 25%); capital spending grew -11% a year (bottom 23%) (its annual reports). Optimum Communications, Inc. reported 7 product lines in fiscal 2025: Broadband at $3.5 billion (41%), Pay TV at $2.6 billion (30%), Business Services and Wholesale at $1.5 billion (17%), and 4 more; 3 of 7 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-7.8 points a yeartop 47% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-4.1%bottom 22% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending50.0%top 25% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-11.0%bottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
2.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 22% of 16 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Optimum Communications, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $8.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.4% below the $8.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 34% of its family); net income of $1.4 billion against a prior three-year average of $48 million (bottom 9%); a net margin of -16.7% against 0.5% before (bottom 22%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-0.4%bottom 34% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times below its prior average or morebottom 9% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-17.2 pointsbottom 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton OPTU · research, not advice