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TickerCHTR
SectorTelecommunications Services
Mkt cap$19B
EV / EBITDA5.6×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1091667

Charter Communications, Inc.

CHTRHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Charter Communications, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Connectivity.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

flat

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$54.6B
EBITDA$20.4B
Enterprise value$114.5B
EV / Revenue2.1×
EV / EBITDA5.6×
P/EN/A
Cash$517M
Total debt$94.4B
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Behavioral posture, nine reads.

Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.

Active Acquirer

27/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $676M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

12/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 47d
  • 567 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 68 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 68 activism filings

Pressure Watch

49/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 68 activism filings
  • Latest activism 1.6y ago

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 68 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 2 NT late filings
  • Latest event 23y ago; heavily discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 567 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $114.5B
  • 10-Q 47d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Capital cadence.

No disclosed M&A capital in the 10-year window.

This issuer has not disclosed material acquisition spend or count in the last ten fiscal years.

§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Strategy posture.

The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.

Archetype mix

  • Horizontal Consolidation
    100%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • horizontal_consolidation
  • geographic_expansion
  • bolt_on
  • platform
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

integrating operations and application of our operating strategies to the acquired assets and the ultimate ability to realize synergies

10-KFY2014

we grew significantly, principally through acquisitions of other cable businesses financed by debt and, to a lesser extent, equity.

10-KFY2004

consideration for the assets acquired and transaction expenses is currently estimated at approximately $7.2 billion

10-KFY2014

pricing and packaging and operating strategy applied to the acquired systems

10-KFY2013

We have no current plans to pursue any significant acquisitions.

10-KFY2004
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Market context.

Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.

Primary market

Connectivity

Market spend (2023–2025)
$58.6B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$121.1B
Recent vs prior
−52%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

5.6×EV / EBITDA

CHTR trades at a -2.3-turn discount to the Connectivity peer median of 7.9×.

EV / Revenue
2.1×
Net debt / EBITDA
4.6×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
7.9×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
23.8×6.8×0.9×$59.1B$26.6B
20.2×6.1×-0.1×$11.9B$4.9B
7.9×2.8×0.4×$139.1B$60M
6.1×2.6×-0.1×$126.5B$3.7B
6.1×2.5×N/A$59.8B$5.1B
Charter Communications, Inc.CHTR
5.6×2.1×4.6×$54.6BN/A

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Connectivity. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Buyer landscape.

Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.

Likely buyers

No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.

Likely sellers / divestiture partners

No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing activity & signal stream.

Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.

Filing cadence

  • 10-K (annual)272026-01-30
  • 10-Q (quarterly)822026-04-24
  • 8-K (event)5672026-04-24
  • Proxy / DEF 14A612026-03-12
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)682024-11-14

Signals on file

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2003-04-01

    2 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2024-11-14

    68 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Restatement risk

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Audited corpus.

No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.

This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.

Charter Communications, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster