Charter Communications’ Investor Meeting Key Takeaways 
<p>RBC Capital provided its key takeaways from <a href='https://financialmodelingprep.com/financial-summary/CHTR'>Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR)</a> Investor Meeting, which provided an attractive outlook for the company’s network evolution, footprint expansion, converged go-to-market strategy, and efforts around improving the customer experience. </p>
<p>The analysts said they are highly encouraged that the target cost to upgrade the network is only $100 per passing ($5.5 billion in total; multiples lower than feared just a few months ago) and that early rural builds have seen approximately 40% penetration after only six months.</p> 
<p>That said, the impact to broadband subscriber growth and ARPU could take years to fully manifest, and in the meantime, this spend is driving a new CAPEX cycle through 2025 that will pressure free cash flow and buybacks. </p>
<p>The analysts walked away with their constructive longer-term outlook reaffirmed, though they are cautious on how the free cash flow cuts will be digested in this tape, and don’t expect shares to really rally until there’s a sustainable improvement in broadband sub trends or moderation in interest rates. The analysts reduced their price target to $460 from $480 while maintaining their Outperform rating.</p>

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