Charter Communications
Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) operates as a leading broadband connectivity company serving 58 million homes and small to large businesses across 41 states through its Spectrum brand. The company maintains its principal website at ir.charter.com and employs a 100% U.S.-based workforce. From the company’s description.
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What Charter Communications does
In the company’s own words
Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) operates as a leading broadband connectivity company serving 58 million homes and small to large businesses across 41 states through its Spectrum brand. The company maintains its principal website at ir.charter.com and employs a 100% U.S.-based workforce.
Founded in 1993, Charter has evolved from a cable television provider into a converged broadband, WiFi, and mobile services company. The company's core business centers on delivering subscription-based Internet, mobile, video, and voice services to residential and commercial customers. Charter's fiber-powered network architecture combines fiber optic cable with coaxial cable infrastructure, enabling the company to offer Internet speeds up to 1 gigabit per second across its entire footprint with multi-gigabit capabilities in portions of its service area.
The company's residential services include Spectrum Internet with Advanced WiFi, Spectrum Mobile leveraging Verizon's 5G network, video programming through approximately 375 channels, and voice services using VoIP technology. Charter also operates Xumo Stream Boxes, which combine live TV with streaming applications and unified search functionality. Commercial offerings include Spectrum Business services for small businesses and mid-market and large enterprises, providing Internet access, data networking, fiber connectivity, video entertainment, and business telephone services with speeds up to 100 Gbps for enterprise customers.
Charter's advertising division, Spectrum Reach, sells local, regional, and national advertising across cable television networks, streaming services, and advanced advertising platforms. The company also owns and operates over 35 local news channels, including Spectrum News NY1 and Spectrum News SoCal, and maintains ownership interests in regional sports networks including SportsNet LA and SportsNet New York.
As of December 31, 2025, Charter served approximately 31.8 million total customer relationships, comprising 29.6 million residential and 2.2 million small business customers. The company maintains 30.6 million connectivity customers, 29.7 million Internet customers, 11.8 million mobile lines, 12.6 million video customers, and 6.0 million voice customers. Charter continues expanding through its subsidized rural construction initiative, having invested $7.7 billion since 2022 to activate approximately 1.3 million passings in unserved areas.
Company details
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry (SIC)
- Communications
- Headquarters
- STAMFORD, CT
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1091667
- SIC
- 4841
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Charter Communications — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Charter Communications · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Charter Communications’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Charter Communications’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 38 issues of Charter Communications’s debt, $4.79B at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 5.41%, maturing 2028 to 2063.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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