Charter Shares Fall 9% After Soft 3Q Broadband Gains, Higher CapEx
27 Outubro 2023 - 4:03PM
Dow Jones News
By Will Feuer
Shares of Charter Communications fell after the cable giant
reported a deceleration in new broadband subscribers and said it
will spend more on upgrading its network this year than
planned.
The stock fell more than 9%, to $372.71, in afternoon trading.
Shares are still up about 10% so far this year.
The company gained 63,000 business and residential internet
subscribers in the quarter, down from 75,000 new subscribers in the
same quarter a year ago and below Wall Street analysts'
expectations.
"The broadband market has been temporarily stunted for growth,
but we are growing in both our existing footprint as well as in the
rural subsidized footprint," Chief Executive Chris Winfrey
said.
Jonathan Chaplin, an analyst at NewStreet Research, said
broadband penetration in new markets, where Charter is expanding to
with the assistance of government-subsidized programs, was better
than he expected. In core markets, though, growth appears to be
pressured from competition with cell carriers, which have started
selling wireless home internet service.
As for the video business, Charter lost 327,000 subscribers, an
acceleration from a loss of 204,000 in the same quarter last year.
Chief Financial Officer Jessica Fischer said the company's carriage
dispute with Disney, during which Disney pulled its channels
including ESPN from Charter's Spectrum service, drove about 100,000
subscribers to cut the cord.
Charter also said it plans to spend about $11.2 billion in
capital expenditures this year, up from prior guidance for $10.5
billion to $10.8 billion. The increase was driven by higher
spending on network upgrades and sending Xumo stream boxes to
customers.
Write to Will Feuer at Will.Feuer@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 27, 2023 14:48 ET (18:48 GMT)
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