CHTRCharter Communications
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -87% · now 63% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can CHTR take a bad year?
Charter Communications carries $94.6B of net debt at 4.42× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.42×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.31× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 0.59
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 5.61×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $95.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $509M
- Net debt
- $94.6B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $21.4B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $12.7B
- Debt / equity
- 5.61×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.44×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 46%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −87%
- Below its 52-week high
- 63%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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