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Cable One, Inc. CABO

13 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.5B
▼ 4.9% YoY
$-356.5M
▼ 2561.7% YoY
$278.1M
▼ 26.4% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Cable One serves its customers with technologically advanced fiber-based infrastructure that provides for delivery of a full suite of data, video and voice products. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 75% of its customers were located in seven states: Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. It provided services to approximately 1.0 million residential and business customers out of approximately 2.9 million passings as of December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, it had 2,592 full-time and part-time associates. It generates substantially all of its revenues through three primary product lines, ranked by share of total revenues during 2025: residential data (60.1%), business data (15.3%) and residential video (12.5%). On July 1, 2015, it became an independent public company traded under the ticker symbol “CABO” on the New York Stock Exchange after completion of its spin-off from Graham Holdings Company.

Written from the business description in Cable One, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 13-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.5 · Net income -0.4
0.8B1.6B-0.2B2013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
−4.2%
+2.5%
+6.4%
−35.9%
−65.5%
−21.2%
−3.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +2.5% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
−24 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -13.8% · Net -23.7%
10%20%30%-10%-20%2013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -22.1%
20%40%-10%-20%2013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity lost 22 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 17.2M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 278.1
200M2013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 17.2 · Net buybacks 0.0
200M400MDividendsNet buybacks201520172019202120232025

USD 17.2M in dividends went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 5.6B
EquityUSD 1.4B
CashUSD 152.8M
Gross debtUSD 3.2B
Net debtUSD 3.1B
DepositsUSD 4.8M

Net debt stands at 213% of equity.

The 13-year record
13 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013
Revenue $B1.51.61.71.71.61.31.21.11.00.80.80.80.8
Operating income $B−0.20.40.50.50.50.50.30.30.20.20.20.20.2
EBITDA $B0.10.80.90.90.80.70.50.50.40.30.30.30.3
Income tax $B−0.10.00.10.10.00.10.10.0−0.00.10.10.10.1
Net income $B−0.40.00.20.20.30.30.20.20.20.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.30.40.30.30.30.30.20.20.10.10.10.00.1
EPS, diluted $−63.212.5738.0834.7346.4951.2731.1228.7740.9217.3815.6725.2117.89
Dividend / sh $2.9511.8011.6011.2010.50·8.507.50·····
Payout %−5469303122192726163410··
ROE %−22.10.812.712.117.726.122.122.740.921.714.017.312.5
Shares out B0.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.01·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 50 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 13 of 19 fiscal years. 26 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityCable & Other Pay Television Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2013

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