Forensic Analysis · Communication Services / Telecom · as of Aug 11, 2026

Charter Communications, Inc. /Mo/ (CHTR)

A forensic read on Charter Communications, Inc. /Mo/ built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Distress

Financial health

0.2

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

4.2

P / E (ttm)

31.1%

ROE

$18.4B

Market cap

-0.6%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Charter Communications, Inc. /Mo/ earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 0.2, placing it in the Distress zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

7.1%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 7.1% in the latest fiscal year and steady — around its ~8% cost of capital, so growth is roughly value-neutral.

116% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $5.1B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 116% of free cash flow, but 32% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow, with the gap funded by debt or cash reserves rather than the cash the business itself throws off; the payout itself is still covered by operating cash. Counting the $673M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 131%.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$54.77B

Revenue Growth YoY-0.6%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+0.5%

Net Margin9.1%

Free Cash Flow$4.42B

Return on Equity31.1%

Debt / Equity5.90x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.