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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Media · CIK 0001702780
$0.6002
-15.05% · live
Updated
$278.0M market value
From Optimum Communications, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026 · read the filing
Optimum Communications broadcasts television and radio. It took in $8.59B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 22 cents on every dollar of sales.
The filing does not provide enough evidence for a clear financial conclusion.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Said previously published accounts cannot be relied on, in a filing on 2026-09-21.
Form 8-K, item 4.02 · Read the filing
Received a delisting or listing-standard notice, in a filing on 2026-08-14.
Form 8-K, item 3.01 · Read the filing
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score -0.46
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
Significant financial weakness across most measures.
From Optimum Communications, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
$1.68B → -$112.6M
Profit
-$102.9M → -$1.87B
Operating margin
18.8% → -1.3%
Profit margin
-1.1% → -21.8%
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 13, 2026
Deteriorated: turned negative
$1.68B to -$112.6MCritical
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: $1.77B wider
-$102.9M to -$1.87BCritical
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.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
OPTU fell 15.05% on the latest quote. The average Communication Services company tracked here moved +4.95%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 20.0 points below its sector and 14.0 points below the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 19 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 19 analysts publishing on this company, 1 say buy, 10 say hold, 5 say sell and 3 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.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
No. It lost $1.87B last year, losing about 22 cents on every dollar of sales.
No. Sales shrank 4.1% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 20.5 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $0.93 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 lost $1.87B and generated $1.23B 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 · Feb 13, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 13, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 15, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K/A · Feb 23, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 16, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $8.59B | $8.95B | $9.24B | $9.65B | $10.09B | −4.1% |
| Cost of revenue | $2.64B | $2.90B | $3.03B | $3.21B | $3.38B | −9.0% |
| Gross profit | $5.95B† | $6.06B† | $6.21B† | $6.44B† | $6.71B† | −1.7% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 69.3% | 67.7% | 67.2% | 66.8% | 66.5% | +1.6 pts |
| Operating income | -$112.6M | $1.68B | $1.70B | $1.80B | $2.52B | n/m |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -1.3% | 18.8% | 18.4% | 18.7% | 25.0% | −20.1 pts |
| Interest expense | — | — | — | — | $1.27B | — |
| Income before tax | -$1.93B | -$82.3M | $118.6M | $516.7M | $1.31B | −2243.7% |
| Net income | -$1.87B | -$102.9M | $53.2M | $194.6M | $990.3M | −1716.0% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -21.8% | -1.1% | 0.6% | 2.0% | 9.8% | −20.6 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $-4.03 | $-0.2235 | $0.1166 | $0.4279 | $2.09 | −1705.7% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPTUOptimum Communications, Inc. · this page | 2.0/10 | 5/9 | -4.1% | -21.8% |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Bought on the open market — 129,808 shares at $0.76 ($98.2K)
Holds 16,646,763 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 732,279 shares at $0.74 ($544.1K)
Holds 17,379,042 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Said previously published accounts cannot be relied on · Published results
Read the filingReceived a delisting or listing-standard notice · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 189 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 17 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
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 OPTU's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 13, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
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. 9 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 | 2.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 2.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 3.3 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 15, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 3.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 16, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 4.7 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 12, 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
5 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
-0.46
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.
Deteriorated: −20.1 pts
18.8% to -1.3%Critical
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.
Deteriorated: −20.6 pts
-1.1% to -21.8%Critical
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.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$149.4M to -$118.8MCritical
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.
Deteriorated: $3.81 wider
-$0.22 to -$4.03Critical
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: +294.6%
$256.5M to $1.01BCritical
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.
Improved: +1.7 pts
67.7% to 69.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: +5.1%
$24.87B to $26.15BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Changed: -6.0%
$1.43B to $1.35BNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -46.6%
$311.1M to $166.0MCritical
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: $195.5M wider
-$96.3M to -$291.8MCritical
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.
Deteriorated: −9.9 pts
-4.5% to -14.4%Critical
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.
Deteriorated: $0.69 wider
-$0.34 to -$1.03Critical
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: +424.2%
$247.3M to $1.30BCritical
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: −6.3 pts
14.5% to 8.2%Significant
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.
Deteriorated: -5.8%
$2.15B to $2.02BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +1.8 pts
69.1% to 71.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: -11.2%
$25.21B to $22.40BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: turned positive
-$2.36B to $166.0MCritical
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.
Improved: $2.59B narrower
-$2.88B to -$291.8MCritical
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: +122.5 pts
-114.3% to 8.2%Critical
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: +125.2 pts
-139.6% to -14.4%Critical
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: $8.81 narrower
-$9.83 to -$1.03Critical
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: -15.1%
$26.39B to $22.40BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +23.6%
$1.05B to $1.30BSignificant
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.
Improved: +1.5 pts
69.4% to 71.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: -3.3%
293.3M to 283.7MNotable
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.
3 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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Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 5.7% 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.
Trailing P/E is not meaningful because the latest trailing earnings are zero or negative. The price-to-book and price-to-sales figures below still provide reference points.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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| CHTRCHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. /MO/ | 3.3/10 | 6/8 | -0.6% | 9.1% | 3.03x | 8.61x |
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| Median of peers | 3.3/10 | — | -0.6% | 9.1% | 3.03x | 8.61x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Bought on the open market — 120,958 shares at $0.74 ($89.7K)
Holds 17,500,000 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 1,291,471 shares at $0.84 ($1.1M)
Holds 18,791,471 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 50,536 shares at $0.85 ($42.8K)
Holds 18,842,007 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 535,191 shares at $0.85 ($452.6K)
Holds 19,377,198 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 171,711 shares at $0.83 ($143.4K)
Holds 19,548,909 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 400 shares at $0.85 ($340.00)
Holds 19,549,309 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 20,000 shares at $0.74 ($14.8K)
Holds 868,454 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 24,927 shares at $1.66 ($41.4K)
Holds 908,454 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 20,000 shares at $0.88 ($17.6K)
Holds 888,454 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 20,000 shares ($14.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 20,000 shares ($17.6K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
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.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue -5.8% · Operating margin −6.3 pts · Operating income -46.6% — against Q2 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Sold shares outside a public offering · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin −130.2 pts · Operating income turned negative · Profit $2.81B wider — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin −20.1 pts · Operating income turned negative · Profit $1.77B wider — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingThe first 40 of 189. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-13. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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