Charter Communications (CHTR)

• Market cap: $50B
• 1 day: 1.35%
• 5 days: 5.12%
• 1 month: -5.30%
• 3 months: 7.28%
• 6 months: 6.38%
• Year to date: 0.58%
• 1 year: -2.19%
• 5 years: -30.11%
• 10 years: 125.05%
• Sector: Communication Services
• Industry: Cable & Other Pay Television 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 (long-term local rights to Los Angeles Lakers games), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles Dodgers), SportsNet New York (New York Mets), and Spectrum News NY1.

Employees: 101,100

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

87% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 125 | Existing positions closed: 67

6% more funds holding

Funds holding: 774 [Q2] → 819 (+45) [Q3]

8% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $867M | Put options by funds: $800M

2% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $32.2B [Q2] → $32.9B (+$747M) [Q3]

2% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 272 | Existing positions reduced: 267

3.31% less ownership

Funds ownership: 74.78% [Q2] → 71.47% (-3.31%) [Q3]

5% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 21 [Q2] → 20 (-1) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $315 10% downside
• Avg. target: $404 15% upside
• High target: $500 42% upside

10 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 30%
• neutral: 6 60%
• negative: 1 10%

RBC Capital Jonathan Atkin 53% 1-year accuracy 10 / 19 met price target	8% upside $380	Sector Perform Maintained	15 Jan 2025
Keybanc Brandon Nispel 35% 1-year accuracy 7 / 20 met price target	42% upside $500	Overweight Upgraded	12 Dec 2024
Exane BNP Paribas Kohulan Paramaguru 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 1 met price target	2% upside $360	Neutral Upgraded	26 Nov 2024
Benchmark Matthew Harrigan 59% 1-year accuracy 41 / 69 met price target	28% upside $450	Buy Maintained	5 Nov 2024
Deutsche Bank Bryan Kraft 63% 1-year accuracy 10 / 16 met price target	4% upside $365	Hold Maintained	4 Nov 2024