Charter (CHTR) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Fri, January 30, 2026 astatine 9:02 AM CST 46 min read

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Friday, January 30, 2026, astatine 8:30 a.m. ET

• President and Chief Executive Officer — Christopher L. Winfrey

• Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President — Jessica M. Fischer

Christopher L. Winfrey: In 2025, we proceed to vie for customers by delivering large products. Video customers contempt well-known headwinds. The video merchandise improvements we've made implicit the past 2 years which improved connectivity relationships, are having an impact. In Internet, contention for caller customers remains high, but lawsuit losses improved twelvemonth implicit year. Driven by lawsuit losses, our gross was down astir 0.5% successful 2025, and a challenging governmental advertizing comparison. While EBITDA grew by astir fractional a percent. The operating situation for caller sales, successful peculiar Internet, continues to bespeak debased determination rates and higher mobile substitution. Along with some expanded compartment telephone Internet contention and fibre overlap maturation akin to earlier successful the year.

Collectively, that drove 4th fourth Internet income somewhat little twelvemonth implicit year. Churn improved twelvemonth implicit year, arsenic expected, fixed past year's ACP-related impacts. And Internet churn, including non-pay churn, remains astatine debased levels. With 2026 successful afloat swing, our shareholders should cognize that we are a highly competitory group, and we mean to triumph successful the residential and concern connectivity marketplace. In this environment, getting backmost to affirmative nett additions is simply a crippled of inches. We're incredibly focused connected one, portion intelligibly messaging our superior worth and inferior and two, providing the champion prime work successful the marketplace successful a mode that is recognized by our customers and our work is simply a competitory advantage.

Let maine spell done however I judge Fortinet Assuming regulatory support of Cox, Spectrum volition screen implicit 70,000,000 households, which gives america further standard to make caller products and services service much concern customers, and prevention customers important money. In 2026, we'll astir implicit our agrarian build-out providing america with implicit 1,700,000 caller subsidized agrarian passings with maturation for years to come. As good arsenic upside from the densification of higher maturation areas successful places similar Texas, Florida, and The Carolinas. We're gig susceptible everywhere. And by the extremity of this year, 50% of the existent spectrum web volition beryllium upgraded to symmetrical and multi-gig service.

With important enactment connected the remaining 50% successful formation and moving to completion successful 2027. Those capabilities substance agelong term, arsenic lawsuit information usage continues to increase. And we're moving with contented owners successful Silicon Valley to make applications and next-generation products similar Spectrum Front Row, That's immersive contented with Apple and the NBA, that makes afloat usage of our ubiquitously deployed mostly fallow fiber-based network. Bandwidth-rich products person ever followed our web capability, And deliberation of the past fewer 100 feet of our fiber-powered web arsenic 1.8 gigahertz of contiguous spectrum. Delivered astatine afloat capableness to each idiosyncratic location and business.