Charter Communications
CHTRCharter Communications has retired 53.5% of its shares since 2017, from 256,720,715 to 119,277,492.
53.5%retired since 2017
35.1%last 5 years
11.7%last 12 months
119Mshares today
Charter Communications has retired 53.5% of its shares since 2017, from 256,720,715 to 119,277,492.
Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2016-12-31 | 206,539,100 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2017 | 2017-12-31 | 256,720,715 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2018 | 2018-12-31 | 232,356,665 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2019 | 2019-12-31 | 219,506,735 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2020 | 2020-12-31 | 203,316,483 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2021 | 2021-12-31 | 183,669,369 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2022 | 2022-12-31 | 161,501,355 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2023 | 2023-12-31 | 149,208,188 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2024 | 2024-12-31 | 143,061,337 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2025 | 2025-12-31 | 135,155,309 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
Source: all 10-K filings of Charter Communications on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $110.11.
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Yes. Charter Communications has 11.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 119,277,492 as of June 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 35.1%.
Net of every new share it issued, Charter Communications has 137.4 million fewer shares than at its 2017 peak. That is 53.5% of the company. Since fiscal 2018 alone it bought back about 125.4 million shares, while the count fell by 113.1 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
119,277,492 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2017 peak it had 256,720,715.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Charter Communications stock in 2017 owns 2.2 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Charter Communications ranks No. 44 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Unum Group (54.4%), Valero Energy (53.7%), Bread Financial (53.5%), Crocs (53.2%).
Every answer is computed from Charter Communications' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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