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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Media · CIK 0001091667
$107.26
-2.52% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$14.50B market value
From CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. /MO/'s FY2025 10-K, filed Jan 30, 2026 · read the filing
CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, /MO/ broadcasts television and radio. It took in $54.77B last year, which makes it a very large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 9 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability needing attention and growth and debt weaker.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score 0.22
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Several areas of financial weakness.
From CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. /MO/'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$3.16B → $4.42B
Shares in issue
143.1M → 135.2M
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Jan 30, 2026
Improved: +39.8%
$3.16B to $4.42BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
CHTR fell 2.52% on the latest quote. The average Communication Services company tracked here moved +5.06%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 7.6 points below its sector and 1.5 points below the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 8% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 24% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 9 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $4.99B last year.
No. Sales shrank 0.6% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 5.9 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.12 in assets. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $4.99B and generated $16.08B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Jan 30, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Jan 31, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 2, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Jan 27, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Jan 28, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $54.77B | $55.09B | $54.61B | $54.02B | $51.68B | −0.6% |
| Operating income | $12.91B | $13.12B | $12.56B | $11.96B | $10.53B | −1.6% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 23.6% | 23.8% | 23.0% | 22.1% | 20.4% | −0.2 pts |
| Income before tax | $7.46B | $7.50B | $6.85B | $7.46B | $6.39B | −0.6% |
| Net income | $4.99B | $5.08B | $4.56B | $5.05B | $4.65B | −1.9% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 9.1% | 9.2% | 8.3% | 9.4% | 9.0% | −0.1 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $36.90 | $35.53 | $30.54 | $31.30 | $25.34 | +3.9% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 1,140 shares ($169.1K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via shares exchanged in Merger.
Filed notice to sell 1,933 shares ($290.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via shares exchanged in Merger.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CHTR's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Jan 30, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Jan 30, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 4.7 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Jan 31, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 4.7 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 2, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 4.7 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Jan 27, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Jan 28, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Jan 29, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
0.22
In the distress zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: -5.5%
143.1M to 135.2MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 24, 2026 — read it.
Improved: -13.1%
138.2M to 120.1MCritical
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Deteriorated: -16.0%
$606.0M to $509.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -6.6%
$3.28B to $3.06BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: −1.2 pts
23.8% to 22.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +14.3%
$9.41 to $10.76Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 24, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +16.1%
$9.27 to $10.76Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +11.1%
$1.16B to $1.29BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +1.0 pts
8.6% to 9.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -4.3%
125.5M to 120.1MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
9 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 6% and 11%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 29 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 29 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 3 say buy, 15 say hold, 5 say sell and 4 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 12.2% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 3.0x — investors pay $3.0 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Completed an acquisition or disposal · Sold shares outside a public offering · Changed the rights attached to its shares · Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Amended its charter or changed its financial year · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin −1.2 pts · Shares in issue -13.1% · Cash -16.0% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Shares in issue -11.4% · Free cash flow -21.1% · Cash -35.1% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Free cash flow +39.8% · Shares in issue -5.5% — against FY2024
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