Charter Communications Company

However, this enthusiasm petered out at the end of September, with investor fears that the Charter would become a larger goal for wire cutter companies to cut with a thousand wounds.

Consequently, the Charter share has fallen about 8% in the last three month but has risen about 17% over the last 12 month. Let's take a close look at what went awry on the Charter in 2017 and whether she can repair the vessel this year or not. The greatest challange for Charter is the continuing loss of private videosubscribers.

In the third three months, 104,000 full videosubscribers were lost, up from 47,000 in the year-ago period. Figures after the combination were not very inspiring as TWC and Bright House saw their annual numbers of participants in videos fall by 3.4% and 0.6% respectively. Charter's own pre-deal participants remained more or less unchanged.

What's more, Charter's private videos sales revenue still grew by 3% a year to $4.2 billion thanks to the sales of higher-priced packages that included language and web service. Unfortunately, the Charter's expansion is mingled on these front lines. In the course of the third month, 249,000 additional users were added, but this represents a 29% deceleration compared to 350,000 in the previous year.

The increase of 27,000 language users also meant a 18% deceleration. At first glance, Charter's SMBs (small and medium-sized enterprises) appeared more healthy, with 15,000 videosubscribers, 36,000 webscribers and 34,000 language users in the last three months. The overall income of SMEs also increased by 7. On the other hand, however, sales per SME client per month decreased by 3 per cent.

7 percent per year, suggesting that it attracted new clients with larger promotional campaigns and lower rates. The company experienced similar problems in its Enterprises segment, which posted sales of $553 million in the last three months, up 8.9% due to new price structure "designed to support higher subscriber growth". "Charter's ad revenues declined by 11% per annum to $373 million in the last three months, reflecting hard benchmarks with last year's policy advertisements.

However, without policy advertisements, Charter's advertising revenue still declined by around 2% per year due to lower levels of advertising activity and "some" impact from recent cyclones. This weakness is likely to persist in the coming months as the pace of string cuts increases. arter plans to divide its slower-growth operations into its own mobile phone operations, which will use Verizon's mobile phone service (NYSE:VZ) and Charter's Wi-Fi spot service area.

Charters takes care of the planning and client services. Like Comcast' Xfinity Portable Services (NASDAQ:CMCSA), this VNO (Mobile virtual networking operator) similar to Verizon also uses its own NASDAQ:CMCSA to share certain assets with Charter. It is doubtful, however, that Charter's cordless services, which will be introduced this year, will be large enough to compensate for its other issues.

In spite of these winds, Charter increased its overall client base in the past three months by 4.1% per annum, with 3.7% housing expansion and 11th place sales rising in the same period. This year, charter sales are expected to increase by 4%, while revenues are expected to fall by 33%, according to analyst estimates. They are expecting sales to grow by 5% and the result to be doubled in the 2018 financial year.

These figures indicate that the Charter could continue to grow despite misgivings about wire cutting. Nevertheless, Charter still struggles compared to other firms such as Comcast and AT&T (NYSE:T). Comcast' cables franchise is facing similar winds as Charter, but it is compensating for this weakness with its NBC Universal franchise - which comprises its TV, movie and amusement parks outfits.

For AT&T, this is probably imitated by the proposed takeover of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX. DL), which would make it one of the largest independent digital publishing houses in the United States. The Charter does not really have an important source of support on which to build, and it failed to meet with speculation by refusing a takeover bid from Verizon last year.

Charters pays no dividends - as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast all do - and its shares are not inexpensive at 67 consecutive years' profit. All this makes the Charter a difficult matter to get into. Cable cut worries about the Charter are probably exaggerated, but the share could remain stagnant this year as revenue earners stay with AT&T and Verizon and growth-oriented investor buy Comcast.

Charters is not a puppy, but it probably won't turn into a Taurus so quickly. Dave and Tom have just unveiled what they think are the ten best shares available for investor buy at the moment...and Charter Communications was not one of them!