Charter Communications (CHTR)

• Market cap: $36B
• 1 day: -0.2%
• 5 days: 3.12%
• 1 month: 0.11%
• 3 months: -33.64%
• 6 months: -24.69%
• Year to date: -24.6%
• 1 year: -22.31%
• 5 years: -56.8%
• 10 years: 42.71%
• Sector: Communication Services
• Industry: Telecom Services

About: Charter is the product of the 2016 merger of three cable companies, each with a decades-long history in the business: Legacy Charter, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks. The firm now holds networks capable of providing television, internet access, and phone services to roughly 58 million US homes and businesses, around 35% of the country. Across this footprint, Charter serves 29 million residential and 2 million commercial customer accounts under the Spectrum brand, making it the second-largest US cable company behind Comcast. The firm also owns, in whole or in part, sports and news networks, including Spectrum SportsNet (Los Angeles Lakers), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles Dodgers), SportsNet New York (New York Mets), and Spectrum News NY1. Charter plans to acquire cable peer Cox.

Employees: 94,500

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

26% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 123 | Existing positions closed: 98

24% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 328 | Existing positions reduced: 264

12% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $37.4B [Q1] → $41.9B (+$4.58B) [Q2]

1.68% more ownership

Funds ownership: 71.42% [Q1] → 73.09% (+1.68%) [Q2]

1% more funds holding

Funds holding: 862 [Q1] → 873 (+11) [Q2]

7% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $783M | Put options by funds: $845M

14% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 22 [Q1] → 19 (-3) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $223
• Avg. target: $339
• High target: $500

7 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 29%
• neutral: 3 43%
• negative: 2 29%

Bernstein Laurent Yoon	$350	Outperform Maintained	10 Sep 2025
Goldman Sachs Michael Ng	$223	Sell Assumed	2 Sep 2025
Wells Fargo Steven Cahall	$300	Equal-Weight Reinstated	21 Aug 2025
UBS John Hodulik	$355	Neutral Maintained	28 Jul 2025
RBC Capital Jonathan Atkin	$370	Sector Perform Maintained	28 Jul 2025