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CHTR Quick Hit: One buyback mystery solved; another emerges

Advance/Newhouse (finally) filed its latest Charter ownership disclosure late Friday afternoon. The buyback amount was the lowest since we started tracking Charter’s buybacks in 2016. In addition, it appears that all the shares were repurchased from A/N and Liberty Broadband; there were no open market purchases. We don’t know why Charter didn’t buy shares in the open market last month; there could be any number of reasons; but we are certainly intrigued. Our thoughts (but few conclusions) in this brief note.

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Charter Communications Inc. Class A

Charter Communications is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a cable operator and a broadband communications company providing video, Internet and voice services. The company also provides its mobile service to residential customers. In addition, the company sells video and online advertising inventory to local, regional and national advertising customers and communications and managed solutions to enterprise customers. The company also owns and operates regional sports networks and local sports, news and community channels. The company owns and operates a two-way telecommunications network which passes various households and small and medium businesses across United States.

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CHTR Quick Hit: One buyback mystery solved; another emerges

3Q24 Broadband Trends: FWA capacity limits; FWA demand limits

Moody's Ratings assigns Ba1 credit ratings to Charter's new senior secured credit facility and term loans

Charter / Liberty Broadband: quick follow up on questions

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SATS: DBS merger breaks

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