Charter Communications
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Annual Revenue
FY2025 Revenue
$54.8B
▲ 1.1% vs FY2024 ($54.2B)
Source: Annual report / company filing
Charter Communications reported $54.8B in revenue for fiscal year 2025. This represents a growth of 1.1% compared to the 2024 figure of $54.2B.
Charter Communications went bankrupt in March 2009 with $8 billion in debt and emerged just eight months later. Six years after that, it closed the largest acquisition in cable industry history — a $78 billion double-tap of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks that made it the second-largest cable operator in America almost overnight. Paul Allen poured more than $5 billion into Charter between 1998 and his death in 2018. Charter's $54.8B in FY2025 revenue represents the delayed vindication of a broadband empire thesis that looked catastrophic for a decade. Charter's revenue has been essentially flat for three years: $54.0 billion in 2022, $54.0 billion in 2023, $54.8B in FY2025. For a company with a $41 billion market cap, that plateau demands explanation. Net income of $4.6 billion on $54.2 billion in revenue reflects the capital intensity of running physical network infrastructure across 41 states. Charter has spent more than $100 billion on acquisitions and network investment over the past decade. The $41 billion market cap implies the market values that network at a substantial discount to replacement cost — a gap that either reflects genuine competitive anxiety about fixed wireless or represents a mispricing. The prepackaged restructuring eliminated approximately $8 billion in debt and let Charter emerge with a cleaner balance sheet than it had carried in years. What followed — the 2013 Bresnan acquisition, then the $78 billion Time Warner Cable and Bright House deals in 2016 — reshaped the entire competitive map of American broadband.
| Year | Revenue | Net Income | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | $54.8B | — | +1.1% |
| FY2024 | $54.2B | $4.6B | +0.3% |
| FY2023 | $54.0B | — | +0.0% |
| FY2022 | $54.0B | — | +4.5% |
| FY2021 | $51.7B | — | +7.5% |
| FY2020 | $48.1B | — | — |
Source: SEC EDGAR filings, annual earnings releases, and verified financial disclosures.