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Optimum Communications, Inc. OPTU

10 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$8.6B
▼ 4.1% YoY
$-1.9B
$-118.8M
▼ 179.5% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Optimum Communications, Inc. delivers high-speed broadband, video, mobile, and advertising services to residential and business customers across 21 states. It delivers broadband, video, telephony, and mobile services to approximately 4.3 million residential and business customers across its footprint. It operates a hybrid-fiber coaxial (HFC) broadband network and a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network with approximately 10.0 million total passings as of December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 9,500 employees. Optimum Communications acquired Cablevision Systems Corporation ("Cablevision") on June 21, 2016. In November 2025, it amended its certificate of incorporation to change its corporate name from Altice USA, Inc. to Optimum Communications, Inc.

Written from the business description in Optimum Communications, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 8.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 10-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 8.6 · Net income -1.9
5B10B-1B-2B
2016201920222025
Compound annual growth
−3.8%
−2.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −2.8% a year over the five years to FY2025.

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

−21 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -1.3% · Net -21.3%
10%20%-10%-20%
201620202025
ROE
FY2019 · ROE 4.7%
10%20%30%-20%-40%
201620202025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on equityNot applicable: equity was zero or negative in this period, so return on equity has no meaning.

Return on equity has no reading this year — return on capital employed, just below, still does: -0%.

Cash & shareholders

·
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF -0.1
1B2B
201620202025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2023 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 0.0
2B4BDividendsNet buybacks
20162017201820192020202120222023

Total assetsUSD 30.7B
EquityUSD -2.3B
CashUSD 1.0B
Gross debtUSD 26.2B
Net debtUSD 25.2B
Current ratio0.80×

Equity was zero or negative — liabilities equaled or exceeded assets. No ratio is shown.

The 10-year record

10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

The share count changed between 2016 and 2018, but the exact year can't be marked here — the underlying count wasn't on file for every year in that stretch.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
OPTU, 10-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016
Revenue $B8.69.09.29.610.19.99.89.69.36.0
Operating income $B−0.11.71.71.82.52.11.81.70.80.5
EBITDA $B1.63.33.33.64.34.24.14.13.82.2
Income tax $B−0.1−0.00.00.30.30.10.0−0.0−2.9−0.3
Net income $B−1.9−0.10.10.21.00.40.10.01.5−0.8
Free cash flow $B−0.10.10.10.51.61.91.21.41.10.6
EPS, diluted $−4.00−0.220.120.432.140.750.210.032.15−1.28
Dividend / sh $0.000.000.000.000.000.000.002.041.290.69
Payout %—————00796462−44
ROE %——————4.70.439.6−40.2
Shares out B◌◌◌◌◌0.480.630.71◌0.00

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 41 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 10 of the 10 fiscal years we could check. 18 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2016. 10 checks were skipped: cost of revenue is not tagged before 2017. Nine checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2016.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityCable & Other Pay Television Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2015

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