Is the business good?
How good a business is CHTR?
Charter Communications earns 9.0% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
9.0%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.03 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 23%
Operating margin · Telecom Services median 11% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.89×
Cash conversion · 0.82× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −14%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 17% |
| FY2021 | 20% |
| FY2022 | 22% |
| FY2023 | 23% |
| FY2024 | 24% |
| FY2025 | 24% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 23%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 8.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $54.4B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $4.36B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $4.92B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.