Optimum Communications, Inc. OPTU
What this company does
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.
Revenue compounded at −2.8% 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.
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.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 8.6 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.6 | 10.1 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 9.3 | 6.0 |
| Operating income $B | −0.1 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
| EBITDA $B | 1.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 2.2 |
| Income tax $B | −0.1 | −0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −2.9 | −0.3 |
| Net income $B | −1.9 | −0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 | −0.8 |
| Free cash flow $B | −0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
| EPS, diluted $ | −4.00 | −0.22 | 0.12 | 0.43 | 2.14 | 0.75 | 0.21 | 0.03 | 2.15 | −1.28 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.04 | 1.29 | 0.69 |
| Payout % | · | · | · | · | · | 0 | 0 | 7964 | 62 | −44 |
| ROE % | · | · | · | · | · | 77.3 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 39.6 | −41.0 |
| Shares out B | · | · | · | · | · | 0.48 | 0.63 | 0.71 | · | 0.00 |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 11 of 19 fiscal years. 45 checks could not be computed.