--- title: "Weekly Recap | Charter Comm -11.91%, consensus target tops spot by half" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/300187257.md" description: "Charter Comm (CHTR) fell 11.91% this week to $112.91, while the S&P 500 gained 1.21%, an underperformance of about 13.12 percentage points. The stock moved lower in a straight line: Monday (21 Sep) opened near $128.84, touched the weekly high of $129.37, then slid through the week, breaking below $117 on Tuesday (22 Sep) on elevated volume and hitting a weekly low of $112.50 on Friday (25 Sep), just above the 24 July low of $111.55." datetime: "2026-09-26T06:09:12.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/300187257.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300187257.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/300187257.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Weekly Recap | Charter Comm -11.91%, consensus target tops spot by half ## The Week Charter Comm (CHTR) fell 11.91% this week to $112.91, while the S&P 500 gained 1.21%, an underperformance of about 13.12 percentage points. The stock moved lower in a straight line: Monday (21 Sep) opened near $128.84, touched the weekly high of $129.37, then slid through the week, breaking below $117 on Tuesday (22 Sep) on elevated volume and hitting a weekly low of $112.50 on Friday (25 Sep), just above the 24 July low of $111.55. ## Key Events The company’s own story this week centred on broadband upgrades and capital-return chatter. Early Tuesday (22 Sep), Spectrum announced it was expanding ultra-low-latency internet nationwide as its multi-gig network upgrade accelerates. On Thursday (24 Sep), reports circulated that Charter had restarted preferred dividend talk and questioned whether the stock is a bargain. Weekend pieces grouped CHTR among the cheapest stocks in the S&P 500 and asked if that makes it a trap. The narrative kept circling low valuation and network expansion, while the share price kept falling. ## Analyst Ratings As of 25 Sep, 23 firms cover the stock: 5 rate it buy, 2 overweight, 11 hold, 2 underweight, 4 sell, and 1 has no opinion. The consensus rating is hold, with a consensus target of $178.05, about 57.7% above the $112.91 spot. The target range runs from $101 to $380, showing wide disagreement. The stock ranks 3rd among 60 media companies in its industry. ## The Week Ahead No company earnings are scheduled for next week. The macro calendar carries the load: Dallas Fed manufacturing activity lands Monday (28 Sep) after a prior reading of 11.6, and Tuesday (29 Sep) brings FHFA house prices, Case Shiller home-price indices, JOLTS job openings and consumer confidence, where the forecast is 90 against a prior 89.4. These prints may shift rate expectations and ripple into rate-sensitive telecom names. ## In Short CHTR’s drop this week happened against a backdrop of low valuation and an upside-biased consensus target: the stock trades at about 2.7x P/E and 0.79x book, with the consensus target more than 50% above spot, yet the consensus rating is only hold and the target range is extremely wide, a sign of divided analyst views. On the latest trading day, large-lot orders were net buyers of $1.76m and retail net buyers of $9.93m, but no clean trend has formed. The question ahead is whether macro data eases rate-sensitivity pressure and whether the low-valuation debate translates into actual buying. *This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.* ### Related Stocks - [CHTR.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/CHTR.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [SPECTRUM BRINGS AI COMPUTING TO THE EDGE OF THE NETWORK AT SCTE TECHEXPO 26 | CHTR Stock News](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300317826.md) - [Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) Earns "Underperform" Rating from Wolfe Research](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298916841.md) - [AI’s $1 Trillion Funding Problem Is Moving From Stocks to Bonds](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300336501.md) - [Micron or Nvidia: One AI Stock Is Poised to Outperform, the Other Is Harder to Call, Says Goldman Sachs](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300359724.md) - [Nvidia’s CEO draws Pope Leo’s criticism as AI safety concerns surge 50%](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300379637.md) --- > **Disclaimer: This article is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice.**