- Prev close
- $117.26
- Day range
- $117.06 – $126.50
- From 52-wk high
- -59.0%
- Next earnings
- in 37 days
CHTR’s -4.4% session move looks more stock-specific than market-driven, with the S&P 500 at -0.4% and Nasdaq 100 at +0.0% while peers were mixed. The backdrop is not broken, but the stock still trades far below its 52-week high and at a very low multiple, so the picture is mixed rather than clearly clean.
CHTR
CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC-A
As of Sep 16, 2026
46/100
Worth keeping an eye onHealth ScoreWhy it moved
CHTR fell -4.4% in the session, a much larger move than the S&P 500 at -0.4% and the Nasdaq 100 at +0.0%, so the broad market does not explain it. Same-sector peers were mixed to weaker — CCZ -2.7%, SIRI -3.3%, while ECHO +1.5% and VSNT +0.5% held up — which points to a stock-specific move rather than a clean sector selloff. The most visible company-specific backdrop is the recent Cox-merger and Spectrum Day rollout news, but the price action itself looks driven mainly by Charter-specific reassessment, not by the indices.
Volatility versus fundamentals
This looks like a sharper-than-normal swing, but not one that comes with obvious fundamental deterioration in the facts provided. Revenue is -1.5% YoY TTM and -1.7% YoY in the latest quarter, yet EPS is +5.5% YoY TTM and margins remain solid at gross +46.9%, operating +23.7%, and net +9.1%. Valuation is very low at PE 5.0 and forward PE 3.2, with PEG 0.22 — the PEG, or P/E divided by growth rate, says the stock is priced cheaply relative to growth if that growth proves durable. Beta is 0.73, which argues for lower-than-market sensitivity, so a -4.4% move is more than the stock’s usual profile, but the weak revenue trend rather than a consensus cut is the main issue visible here. The setup is therefore mixed: the decline is larger than ordinary beta would suggest, but the underlying earnings profile and margins are still intact.
Earnings preview
The next earnings date is 2026-10-29. There is no analyst revenue or EPS consensus in the facts for this period, so I cannot state expected revenue/EPS growth or margin assumptions for the print. What the market will likely focus on is whether the -1.5% YoY TTM revenue decline and -1.7% YoY latest-quarter decline stabilize, whether EPS can keep running at +5.5% YoY TTM despite softer top-line growth, and whether the Cox-related integration and Spectrum Day rollout support subscriber and pricing trends. Prior post-earnings reaction data is not provided here, so I cannot quantify the stock’s typical move around past prints.
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