Charter Communications (CHTR)
Communication Services · Cable and Satellite Providers · NASDAQ
Charter Communications is a major US connectivity provider operating the Spectrum brand, delivering high-speed internet, mobile, and video services to millions of residential and business customers.
What Charter Communications does
Charter Communications is a leading connectivity company providing broadband, mobile, video, and voice services to residential and business customers across the United States. The company operates primarily through its Spectrum brand, delivering integrated communication and entertainment services through a robust network infrastructure.
Themes: broadband internet, mobile network services, video entertainment services, commercial connectivity, network infrastructure evolution
Fundamentals
- Price$150.17 as of 2026-08-21 close
- Market cap$20.5B as of 2026-08-24
- 1-year return-44.0% 2025-08-21 close $267.98 → 2026-08-21 close $150.17
- P/E4.17 as of 2026-08-24
- Net margin+9.1% as of 2026-08-24
- Gross margin+46.9% as of 2026-08-24
- ROE+30.4% as of 2026-08-24
- Debt / equity5.70 as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue growth (YoY)-1.5% as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+0.5% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.67 as of 2026-08-24
- Last reported earnings2026-07-24 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
How CHTR compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiobottom 10% 79 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- net profit marginmiddle range 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- operating margintop 10% 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- gross marginmiddle range 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- return on equitytop 25% 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- 3-year revenue CAGRbottom 25% 121 covered Communication Services peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)top 10% 114 covered Communication Services peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Communication Services companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
Top 10 scores & list membership
CHTR is not currently in any published Top 10 list. Its scores are below.
Long-term score
Not scored for the long-term list: no shareholder return data.
Short-term score
49.7 #806 of 1,704 scored · #34 of 66 in Communication Services
Setup 66th: no fresh 20-day breakout up or down; trend 51st: the price is 4% above the average price paid over the period covered, so the typical buyer over that stretch is showing a gain; weakest is volume and participation 34th: trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average.
Scores as of 21 Aug 2026. Each bar is a percentile: how this company ranked against every company the score ranked, 0–100. A list is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation. Method version 2.
How Charter Communications looks technically
Charter Communications (CHTR) is trading 19.5% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 257 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal. There is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 18, below the 25 that marks a real trend). Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 4 trading days ago (its momentum flipped negative). It made a new 20-day high about 9 trading days ago. It is 47.5% below its highest point of the past year.
Trend
7
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 19.5% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -19.5% |
|---|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $139.54 | $139.54 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $186.54 | $186.54 |
| Swing structure | its recent peaks and dips disagree — one of them is rising while the other is not, so there is no clean up or down pattern in the swings | mixed — one of the two is not confirming |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing low 28 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 28 sessions |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 257 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal | 257 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | there is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 18, below the 25 that marks a real trend) | 18.0 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 53.5 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading in the lower half of its 14-day range ($143.02 to $159.29) — its "stochastic" reading is 44 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been slipping within that range over the last few sessions. | 44.0 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 4 trading days ago (its momentum flipped negative) | 4 sessions |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $285.82 | $285.82 |
|---|---|---|
| From the 52-week high | it is 47.5% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -47.5% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 34.6% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +34.6% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 47.5% below its highest point of the past year | 47.5% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day high about 9 trading days ago | 9 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day high about 9 trading days ago | 9 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $825.62 (set on 2021-09-02) | $825.62 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($123.31 to $282.74), and it has recovered roughly a quarter of its fall from last year’s high — 17% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $221.84 to $226.94. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 16.9% |
| From the all-time high | it is 81.8% below its all-time high | -81.8% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 8.9% above a support level at $136.78 — a price it turned at twice since 2026-05-15, most recently on 2026-07-17. Since 2024-08-21 it has 1 such level below the current price and 15 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | -8.9% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $29.10 (set on 2010-02-09) | $29.10 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 416.0% above its all-time low | +416.1% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are about average versus its own recent 6-month history | 45th percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $7.67 between its high and its low — about 5.1% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $7.67 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $136.11 and $161.79 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $136.11 – $148.95 – $161.79 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 5.1% in a typical session — about typical for the companies we cover. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 5.1% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 4.7 daily ranges below its 200-day average price (19.5% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 4.7 daily ranges below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 0.67× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts' average price target is unchanged from the prior reading | 0.0% |
|---|---|---|
| Change in the consensus rating | the analyst consensus rating is unchanged since the prior reading | unchanged |
Price gaps
3
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-08-21 0.9% above the previous session's close — an overnight gap, the part of the move that happened while the market was shut, and traded back through that level before the close | +0.9% |
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| Open gap | it gapped 2.2% above the previous close 3 sessions ago and has not traded back through the level it left behind at 144.1 — an "unfilled gap", which describes a price range no trade has since crossed and is not a forecast that it will be crossed | +2.2% |
| Gap filled | a 3.6% gap down opened on 2026-07-30 has been "filled" 15 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it took 1 session to close | 15 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it closed higher in its latest session, after a session that did not close higher — a single up day rather than a run | 1 session up |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock beat the market by 15.2 percentage points (the stock gained 17.5% while the market gained 2.3%) | +15.2% |
|---|---|---|
| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 2.2 percentage points (the stock gained 0.9% while the market gained 3.1%) | -2.2% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 45.8 percentage points (the stock lost 34.8% while the market gained 11.1%) | -45.8% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock lagged the market by 64.4 percentage points (the stock lost 44.0% while the market gained 20.5%) | -64.4% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 0 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bullish state — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 0 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 4 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: a "death cross" — its 50-day average is below its 200-day, trading below its 200-day average, MACD momentum is negative, lagging the market over 6 months — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 4 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading inside the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-16 and projected forward over today's price, the zone traders read as unresolved — neither side has established a trend, and the band is where that gets settled. The band itself is moderate, spanning 7.0% of the share price. | 0.0% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 12% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $169.70 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 157 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -11.5% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is 4% above the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-07-24 (its 10-Q), so the typical buyer over that stretch is showing a gain. That average is $144.74 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 21 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | +3.8% |
Price levels it has turned at before
CHTR last closed at $150.17 on 2026-08-21. Since 2024-08-21 it has turned at 1 price below its last close and 15 above; the nearest below and the 3 nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $136.78 | Support | 8.9% below the last close | turned there twice · 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-17 |
| $193.51 | Resistance | 28.9% above the last close | turned there twice · 2025-11-20 to 2025-12-02 |
| $208.42 | Resistance | 38.8% above the last close | turned there twice · 2026-03-18 to 2026-04-01 |
| $215.54 | Resistance | 43.5% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-12-11 to 2026-04-15 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
No Elliott-wave labelling currently fits its swings: the recent highs and lows do not satisfy the three rules a five-wave count has to obey, so there is no count to show rather than a count we are unsure about.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-21.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Pulled back from the 12-month high · MACD just crossed bearish (12/26/9) · trendless / choppy (low ADX) · lagging the market · Trading inside the Ichimoku cloud | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout · fifty two week high low
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-21. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Consensus ratingHold (2.95 mean, 1=Strong Buy…5=Strong Sell) — 17 analysts
- Mean price target$184.41 range $101.00 – $380.00; median $150.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-19. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for CHTR
- Consensus EPS estimate$9.87 next reporting period, as of 2026-08-19
Change over time is not available yet: it needs two readings of the same reporting period at least 30 days apart, and we have been recording these estimates since 2026-08-04. An estimate for a DIFFERENT quarter is not a revision, so a reading from before the last report is never compared with one after it.
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Intense competition from fiber-to-the-home, wireless, and satellite broadband providers.","Substantial debt obligations and the need to comply with restrictive covenants in credit facilities.","Ability to manage rising programming costs and secure favorable retransmission consent agreements."]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of CHTR's 10-Q filed 2026-04-24 against the prior one filed 2025-10-31.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Added:
- Newer filing states services available to 'nearly 59 million homes' vs. older filing's '58 million homes'
- Newer filing includes statement about Internet customer loss of 120,000 in Q1 2026
- Newer filing includes mobile lines growth of 368,000 in Q1 2026
- Newer filing states video and voice customer losses 'improved versus the prior year period'
- Newer filing specifies network offers speeds 'up to 1 Gbps across our entire footprint and multi-gigabit data speeds in a portion of our footprint'
- Newer filing states network evolution will deliver 'symmetrical and multi-gigabit speeds across our entire footprint with convergence everywhere we operate'
- Newer filing reports $427 million spent on subsidized rural construction during Q1 2026 with approximately 89,000 passings activated
- Newer filing presents financial table for Three Months Ended March 31 with 2026 vs. 2025 comparison
- Newer filing notes revenue decrease of $138 million in Q1 2026 and references 'one-time favorable adjustments of $75 million in the first quarter of 2025'
- Removed:
- Older filing's reference to 'third quarter of 2025' period with 493,000 mobile lines added
- Older filing's reference to 'pricing and packaging strategy launched in September 2024 and our brand platform, Life Unlimited'
- Older filing's statement that deals were completed 'with every major programmer' (newer uses 'major programmers')
- Older filing's July 2025 timeline for launching à la carte seamless entertainment applications
- Older filing's statement that Spectrum App Store was 'just recently launched'
- Older filing's reference to 'new customer commitments' (newer removes 'new')
- Older filing's three and nine months data for Q3 2025 showing $582 million and $1.6 billion rural construction spending with 124,000 and 336,000 passings
- Older filing's financial table for Three Months and Nine Months Ended September 30 with 2025 vs. 2024 comparisons
- Older filing's revenue analysis referencing 'lower customers and lower advertising sales offset by mobile line growth'
- Reworded:
- Strategic focus shifted from Q3 2025 performance commentary to Q1 2026 performance
- Network evolution description changed from future tense ('are upgrading') to present tense ('remains on track to deliver')
- Removed specific reference to brand platform 'Life Unlimited' from overview section
- Changed from stating 'we began launching' à la carte applications to stating they 'offer the sale of these seamless entertainment applications'
- Removed references to specific launch dates (July 2025) and replaced with more general present-tense language
- Notes:
- Both filings reference the same May 16, 2025 Cox Transactions Agreement but with different cash consideration amounts: $500 million in older filing vs. $650 million in newer filing for Charter Holdings' cash payment to Cox Enterprises
- Older filing presents nine-month data which is not present in the newer filing excerpt
- Comparison is between Q1 2026 (newer) and Q3 2025 (older) periods, representing different quarters in different fiscal years
Risk Factors
- Added:
- Newer filing references Liberty Broadband Merger Agreement and Cox Communications Transaction Agreement as being 'in effect' (filed 2026-04-24)
- Newer filing describes definitive proxy statement for Cox Transactions as filed on July 2, 2025 (filed 2026-04-24)
- Removed:
- Older filing referenced 'three and nine months ended September 30, 2025' period (filed 2025-10-31); newer filing references 'three months ended March 31, 2026' period (filed 2026-04-24)
- Older filing had Risk Factors on page 30, Unregistered Sales on page 35, Exhibits on page 35 (filed 2025-10-31); newer filing has Risk Factors on page 28, Unregistered Sales on page 28, Exhibits on page 28 (filed 2026-04-24)
- Reworded:
- Competition bullet point changed from 'wireless broadband and telephone providers' in older filing (2025-10-31) to 'wireless and satellite broadband and telephone providers' in newer filing (2026-04-24)
- Balance sheet comparison dates changed from 'September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024' (filed 2025-10-31) to 'March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025' (filed 2026-04-24)
- Notes:
- Text provided is truncated and incomplete; full Risk Factors section content beyond the forward-looking statements cautionary language is not fully visible in either version
- Balance sheet data is presented but comparison is limited due to different reporting dates across filings
- Comparison is based on the portions of text provided; full Risk Factors item (Item 1A) content is not fully displayed
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
0 open-market purchases and 2 open-market sales by insiders in the last 90 days.
- Last 90 days0 buys · 2 sells ($3M) — 1 selling insider
- Last 180 days5 buys ($4M) · 3 sells ($13M) — 4 buying, 1 selling insiders
Cluster buying: 4 different insiders reported open-market purchases (SEC code P) of CHTR within a 30-day window between 2026-04-28 and 2026-05-15. Disclosed Form 4 activity, not a prediction of performance or a buy signal.
Activity heuristic: net selling (a transparent product heuristic from the counts above, not a prediction or advice)
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-05-27. As of 2026-08-24.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about CHTR's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Congressional trading disclosures
U.S. House members publicly disclose their own, their spouse's, and dependent children's stock transactions under the STOCK Act. We hold 4 matched disclosures for CHTR from U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Report filings.
Congressional trading disclosures →Institutional ownership (13F)
5 institutional 13F filers reported holding CHTR as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 5
- Reported shares held 16,350,191
- Reported value $3,529,679,193
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 0 new, 3 increased, 2 decreased, 1 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
CHTR had 22,464,161 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
Short interest as a percent of shares outstanding is not shown for CHTR because we do not hold a verified share count to divide it by. The reported figures above are unaffected.
- Reported short interest (shares) 22,464,161
- Prior settlement (shares) 20,265,471
- Reported change 10.85%
- Days to cover (reported) 6.11
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Comcast (CMCSA)
- AT&T (T)
- Verizon (VZ)
- T-Mobile US (TMUS)
- Frontier Communications
- Lumen Technologies (LUMN)
- Dish Network (DISH)
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Frequently asked questions
What does Charter Communications (CHTR) do?
Charter Communications is a leading connectivity company providing broadband, mobile, video, and voice services to residential and business customers across the United States. The company operates primarily through its Spectrum brand, delivering integrated communication and entertainment services through a robust network infrastructure.
What sector is Charter Communications (CHTR) in?
Charter Communications (CHTR) is classified in the Communication Services sector. Its industry is Cable and Satellite Providers. It trades on NASDAQ.
Who are Charter Communications's (CHTR) competitors?
Notable peers of Charter Communications (CHTR) include Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US and Frontier Communications. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Has there been recent Congressional stock trading in CHTR?
Yes — we hold 4 matched STOCK Act disclosures for CHTR from U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Report filings. These are legally-required disclosures (often filed 30–45 days after the trade), may belong to a U.S. House member, their spouse, or a dependent child, and are not an indicator of company performance or investment advice.
Is Charter Communications (CHTR) overbought or oversold right now?
Charter Communications (CHTR) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-21). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on CHTR come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-24; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-24. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-21.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.