Charter Communications (CHTR) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results and Next Report Date

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Charter Communications published the results on November 6, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison.

• Charter completed the Cox Transactions on August 19, 2026. Actual results on this page include Cox Communications only from August 20, 2026. Charter's release also gives pro forma figures as if the deal had closed on January 1, 2024: pro forma Q3 2026 revenue was $16,505 million, down 1.5%.
• The Q3 2026 net loss was driven by a $6.3 billion non-cash franchise impairment charge, partly offset by a $1.4 billion gain on extinguishment of debt from debt exchanges.

Source: Charter third quarter 2026 results, November 6, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Charter Communications splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Charter Communications's Residential revenue revenue was $11.2 billion in Q3 2026, up 5% from $10.6 billion in Q3 2025, 75% of total revenue.
• Charter Communications's Commercial revenue revenue was $2.2 billion in Q3 2026, up 23% from $1.8 billion in Q3 2025, 15% of total revenue.
• Charter Communications's Advertising sales revenue was $460 million in Q3 2026, up 29% from $356 million in Q3 2025, 3% of total revenue.
• Charter Communications's Other revenue was $1.1 billion in Q3 2026, up 26% from $835 million in Q3 2025, 7% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

Charter gives no revenue or EPS outlook in its release. It states a capital expenditure expectation and a cost savings target.

In its Q3 2026 release, Charter Communications said:

“Charter expects pro forma full year 2026 capital expenditures, excluding transition capital expenditures, to total approximately $13.0 billion.”

“As part of this transformation, the Company is targeting $2 billion in annualized run-rate operating expense savings over the next 18 months, in addition to more than $1 billion in anticipated Cox Transactions synergies.”

Source: Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Nov 6, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the CHTR forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

Actual (not pro forma) revenues and diluted EPS attributable to Charter shareholders, each as first reported in that quarter's release. Q3 2026 includes Cox Communications from August 20, 2026.

Charter Communications's next report is expected around January 29, 2027, a date estimated from its reporting history that the company has not yet confirmed. This page will show Q3 2026 until those results are out and have been checked against the release.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Nov 6, 2026

Charter Communications sells Internet, mobile, video and voice service under the Spectrum brand. In Q3 2026 residential revenue was $11,161 million of the $14,922 million total, of which Internet was $6,395 million, video $3,292 million and mobile service $1,134 million. Commercial revenue was $2,249 million, advertising sales $460 million and other revenue, mostly mobile device sales, $1,052 million. (Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

Revenue rose 9.1% on Charter's actual basis because of the Cox Transactions, completed on August 19, 2026, which added more than 11 million passings and over 5 million customer relationships. The 10-Q says revenues attributable to Cox Communications since the acquisition date were $1.4 billion. (Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026; Charter Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 6, 2026)

On a pro forma basis, which treats Cox as owned for both full periods, revenue fell 1.5% to $16.5 billion. Charter attributed the decline mainly to lower residential video revenue, as $286 million of costs allocated to programmer streaming applications were netted within video revenue against $106 million a year earlier, and to lower residential Internet revenue. Pro forma Internet revenue fell 3.7% while mobile service revenue rose 17.3%. (Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

On a pro forma basis Internet customers fell by 233,000 in the quarter, including 156,000 at legacy Charter and 77,000 at legacy Cox, while mobile lines rose by 508,000. Monthly residential revenue per residential customer was $117.85 pro forma, down 1.6%, and video customers fell 1.8% over twelve months. (Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

Spectrum Mobile is sold to Charter's Internet customers and runs on customers' own WiFi, Charter's out-of-home WiFi access points and Verizon's cellular network, which Charter uses for nationwide coverage. (Charter Form 10-K, 2025, Jan 30, 2026)

Charter Communications reported a diluted loss of $20.50 per share in Q3 2026, against diluted EPS of $8.34 a year earlier, and a net loss attributable to shareholders of $2,397 million. Charter reports no adjusted EPS; its main non-GAAP measures are Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow. (Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

The loss came from a pre-tax non-cash franchise impairment charge of $6.3 billion on one franchise unit of accounting, which the 10-Q says reflected lower estimates for future customer and revenue growth and higher replacement costs for network assets. The tax line includes approximately $1.6 billion of deferred tax benefit from the impairment, and a $1,391 million gain on extinguishment of debt from debt exchanges partly offset it. (Charter Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 6, 2026; Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

Basic weighted average shares were 116,944,459, against 133,763,886 a year earlier, a 12.6% decrease that Charter cites in explaining the per-share change. Cox Equity Holdings received Charter Holdings units and convertible preferred units in the transaction, so part of Charter's income is attributed to noncontrolling interests. Charter purchased 139,807 Class A shares for $19 million in the quarter. (Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026; Charter Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 6, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Charter Communications gives no revenue or EPS outlook in its release. It expects pro forma full year 2026 capital expenditures, excluding transition capital expenditures, of approximately $13.0 billion, and with the new operating model announced on November 6, 2026 it is targeting $2 billion in annualized run-rate operating expense savings over the next 18 months, on top of more than $1 billion in anticipated Cox Transactions synergies. (Charter Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Charter Communications, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Charter Communications's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

What the quarter means for a holding is a separate question from what it reported. The case for and against owning CHTR is on is CHTR a buy or a sell?, what analysts expect next is on the CHTR forecast, and what the company does is on the Charter Communications (CHTR) stock page.

Every number on this page can be traced to a document Charter Communications published. Checking one takes a couple of minutes, and it is worth doing before you quote a figure anywhere.

• The results release is the document linked in the source line above. Companies publish it on their investor relations site at the moment results go out, and it carries the headline tables: revenue, operating income, net income and EPS for the quarter and the year-ago quarter.
• The same release is filed with the SEC as Exhibit 99.1 to a Form 8-K under Item 2.02, usually on the day of the report. The SEC copy does not change after the fact, which makes it the safer thing to link when you cite a number.
• The quarterly report (Form 10-Q) follows within a few weeks and carries the full financial statements, the segment note and management's discussion of what changed. The fourth quarter is covered by the annual report (Form 10-K) instead.
• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

A walk-through of every line in a release, with what each one tells you, is in how to read an earnings report.