2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $1.1B to $889M, decreasing; diluted EPS 24.47 to 36.21, increasing. Latest-filed diluted EPS remains usable for Business Trend, but an integer share-count change lacks enough evidence to confirm a comparable EPS basis; valuation growth therefore stays at 0%.
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Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power.
11
Median ROIC 7.6%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.
40
Net debt/EBITDA 4.4x, no material interest expense disclosed.
37
Owner earnings changed -0.3%/yr over up to the ten most recent annual observations, share count n/a.
The pricingPower component abstained: Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
No price data
$5.1B
Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
$123.31
No price data
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. CHTR revenue fell in each of the three most recent year-over-year FY comparisons, so this estimate is flagged as unreliable for this company.
Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 239% above the zero-growth estimate across 48 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF, BKNG.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
17 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $7.1B (FY2010) to $889M (FY2025) — about −12.9% a year compounded over 15 years.
It earned 9.0% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 16-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 5.9%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 7.6%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 11/100.
The balance sheet carried $95.7B of total debt in FY2025 against $5.0B of owner earnings — roughly 19.2 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 40/100.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
FY2009–FY2025 · 17 fiscal years, normalized from CHTR’s SEC filings
Sales, as filed$889M FY2025Revenue kept after cost of goods
Not disclosed in CHTR’s filings for these years — we don’t estimate it.
Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICROIC 9.0% FY2025Cash an owner could take out$5.0B FY2025
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in CHTR’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Flagship explainer
How Charter Communications, Inc. makes its money
Charter Communications, Inc.'s filing does not supply enough comparable lines for a truthful flow chart — here's what is filed:
Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
What Charter Communications, Inc. insiders reported
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 11, 2026.
Partial coverage: the incomplete Form 4 walk cannot establish no activity, an activity date, or zero counts.
Moat Score history
16 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten
Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale35.7 / 100
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 11, 2026.
67 filings were skipped because the SEC primary document returned 404; the omission is disclosed and aggregates are withheld.
Trailing-12-month totals and the 90-day cluster result are withheld because this issuer walk is incomplete.
No reported Form 4 rows were captured for CHTR; the incomplete walk cannot establish zero activity, zero counts, or a negative cluster result.
A filing source-event date will appear when a Form 4 row is captured.
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Track record
How Charter Communications, Inc.’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
Point-in-time scores 2011–2025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight
Point-in-time Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored CHTR on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the reconstructed history shown, CHTR did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
Communications context
#71 of 134 scored Communications companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Does Charter Communications, Inc. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores Charter Communications, Inc. (CHTR) 35.7 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 55, pricing power not measurable from the filings, returns on capital 11, balance-sheet safety 40, capital allocation 37.
How has CHTR's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 16 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 35.7 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.
Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell CHTR. See the disclaimer.