QualityDipStocks / Telecommunications · Cable & media
Charter Communications CHTR
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 55% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, 8% under its Market Value. No fair value estimate for now: the model’s result is too extreme to stand behind.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $121.45price −8%
- Off 52-wk high
- −55%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.14
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $111.49
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$102.18−8.4%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$111.49you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 26$121.45+8.9%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$248.19+122.6%
Fair value estimate
Estimate unreliable for CHTR: the model gives 411% above the price, more than we can stand behind (usually peak-cycle cash flow, heavy debt, or cash flows that include customer or loan balances). We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, CHTR’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 26% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much CHTR moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 4.2× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.14
- Volatility
- 53% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.03
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.12
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 32.2% (price / FCF 3.1×): $4.4B of free cash in the last 12 months.
ValuationP/E of 2.7× vs a 13.1× median for the 8 Telecommunications companies we cover.
Cash returnsShare count down 14.4% in a year: $4.8B of buybacks over 12 months.
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 5.0×: modest for what the business earns before interest, tax and depreciation.
ValuationTrades 8.2% below its Market Value of $121.45, the average price paid since the Aug 26 filing.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
Balance sheetNet debt of $93.5B, 691% of the market cap (Jun 30, 2026).
Balance sheetDebt is 5.5× shareholders’ equity.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity fell 10 points in two fiscal years, to 31% in FY2025.
GrowthSales grew only 0.5% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: sales down vs the year-ago quarter; net debt 4.4× EBITDA (limit 3×).
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Charter Communications in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Telecommunications
All fundamentals
P/E 2.7 · FCF yield 32.2% · ROE 30%
Valuation
- P/E
- 2.7×Telecommunications median 13.1×
- Price / FCF
- 3.1×
- FCF yield
- 32.2%
- EV / EBITDA
- 5.0×
- Price / sales
- 0.25×
- Price / book
- 0.80×
- Market cap
- $13.5Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $107B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $54.4B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- −1.5%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +0.5%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $38.43
- EPS growth, last FY
- +3.5%
- Net income, 12 months
- $4.9B
- Net income growth
- −6%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 23.3%
- Net margin
- 9.1%
- FCF margin
- 8.0%
- Return on equity
- 30%
- Return on invested capital
- 9%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $509M
- Total debt
- $94.0B
- Net cash
- −$93.5B
- Debt / equity
- 5.54×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $4.4B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +1%
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $4.8B35.2% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −14.4%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $635M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Charter Communications’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
MV $121.45 · FCF value $490.56
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 49 · 5 days +2.7%
The business
FCF $2.2B · Sales −2%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$2.2B
- Free-cash-flow yield17.6%
- Free-cash-flow margin4%
- Gross margin55%
- Operating margin24%
- Return on invested capital9%
- Return on equity27%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)−2%
- Net debt / EBITDA4.4×
Next report
Nov 6
- DateFri Nov 6, before the open
- Consensus EPS$10.06
- Year-ago EPS$8.34
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
CHTR is outside our quality screen
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