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Optimum Communications, Inc.

$OPTU·$361M·Telecommunications Services·Communication Services
$1.020.0%YTD-46.1%1Y-56.6%
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2026-08-20: 3 posts2026-08-21: 0 posts2026-08-22: 0 posts70%
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OPOPTU
$OPTUOptimum Communications, Inc.
$1.020.00%7 posts0%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $OPTU, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Broken storySelling offAI verdict · as of 2026-08-21

Falling on heavy selling — points lower unless it turns around.

Altice USA's cable business under a fresh NYSE listing notice — the sub-$1 tape is confirming the fundamental deterioration.

Optimum Communications (formerly known as Altice USA) is a US cable/broadband/telco operator serving portions of the New York metro area and other US markets. Massively-levered legacy cable business facing the same secular headwinds hitting the whole category — cord-cutting, wireless competition, and broadband share erosion.

  • Q1 revenue was down 4% year-on-year to $2.07B — the top line has been in slow decline for a year and a half, and the operating losses have widened alongside; net income printed at -$6.10 EPS.
  • On Aug 13 the NYSE issued a listing-standard non-compliance notice for the sub-$1 average closing price over a 30-day window — Optimum has time to submit a compliance plan, but the notice itself is the specific event that says the tape has crossed a threshold beyond routine drawdown.
  • The Aug 12 Spectrum partnership announcement expanded local-news and advertising collaboration — a real operational positive, but at $0.87 with the listing overhang it doesn't move the equity math much.
  • Sits at the 13th percentile of the 52-week range, is -38% below the 200-day trend, and -60% over 12 months — the tape has been in aggressive distribution for months, and the NYSE notice is now the specific event to reference.

What restarts the move is a reverse stock split that mechanically clears the $1 minimum-bid rule alongside a Q3 print showing revenue decline moderating. What confirms the breakdown is another quarter of accelerating revenue decline, a Nasdaq/NYSE delisting escalation, or a fresh debt-covenant issue; the huge -5x debt-to-equity structure means any credit-quality shock resets the equity math hard.

Differs from X sentimentThe mixed X read is thin — the odd-lot tender trade and short-thesis pieces reference OPTU (Optimum/Altice), while the OptumRx-based framing is a separate name. The real signal is the Aug 13 NYSE listing notice, not the trading commentary, and none of the X sample references that.

What to watch: Any 8-K on the NYSE compliance plan (reverse split is the standard mechanism). Nov 5 Q3 earnings — revenue decline trajectory and free-cash-flow generation. Watch for debt-refinancing announcements.

On the calendar: 2026-11-05 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Mixed sentiment⚠5 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-06 · top-engagement diverged

OptumRx-related OPTU commentary is thin: contributors report the odd-lot tender trade netted 50-60% in about a month and framing it as a nice trade. A short thesis identifies expensive prefunded debt as the reason to be short. Directional disagreement is explicit between the tender-win crowd and the short-side.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

US cable and broadband company offering internet, TV, and mobile under the Optimum and Suddenlink brands.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Telecommunications Services sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $OPTU.

Telecommunications Services · Communication Services

No material change from last week — IRDM's only truly global LEO constellation and GSAT's Apple SOS partnership represent a new service layer that neither cable nor wireless incumbents can match.

What this means for $OPTU

Partial — US cable and broadband company offering internet, TV, and mobile under the Optimum and Suddenlink brands; partial earnings exposure to telecommunications services demand dynamics through its product portfolio.

Industry benchmark

18-name peer basket
+35.6%YTD
+40.0%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-0.1How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-0.3%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-1.0%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-17.2%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
0.1Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
180%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
64.7%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
-5.1Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 6, 2026$-0.67$-0.15-344.4%
Q1 2026May 7, 2026$-6.10$-0.16-3712.5%
Q4 2025Feb 12, 2026$-0.15$-0.01-1400.0%
Q3 2025Nov 6, 2025$-3.47$-0.06-5831.6%
Next earningsThu, Nov 5·consensus EPS $-0.19

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$2.1B-4.0%49.8%17.8%$-6.10$-137.4M
Q4 FY25$2.2B-2.3%69.5%18.2%$-0.15$199.4M
Q3 FY25$2.1B-5.4%69.7%-55.3%$-3.47$-178.7M
Q2 FY25$2.1B-4.2%69.1%14.5%$-0.21$28.4M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 9 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$8.1B$8.1B – $8.3B-$6.58-$8.24 – -$0.209
FY27$7.8B$7.5B – $8.0B-$0.72-$1.35 – $0.769
FY28$7.6B$7.2B – $8.0B-$0.91-$4.83 – $0.948
FY29$7.5B$7.3B – $7.7B-$0.55-$0.57 – -$0.547
FY30$7.4B$7.2B – $7.6B-$0.54-$0.56 – -$0.527

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.5×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.20%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+1.3%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-25.8%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 384.5M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.4% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.225-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

BuyAug 25Neil S Subin10% owner400 sh$340BuyAug 24Neil S Subin10% owner171.7K sh$143KBuyAug 21Neil S Subin10% owner535.2K sh$453KBuyAug 20Neil S Subin10% owner50.5K sh$43KBuyAug 19Neil S Subin10% owner1.3M sh$1.1MSellAug 3Michael OlsenGeneral Counsel and CCRO20.0K sh$15KBuyJul 31Neil S Subin10% owner121.0K sh$90KBuyJul 30Neil S Subin10% owner732.3K sh$544KBuyJul 29Neil S Subin10% owner129.8K sh$98KSellJul 1Michael OlsenGeneral Counsel and CCRO20.0K sh$18K
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsAug 283
8-KListing / delisting noticeAug 148-K — Item 3.01: Listing / delisting notice · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Optimum Communications, Inc. received a notice from the NYSE on August 13, 2026 that its Class A common stock has failed to meet the continued listing standard requiring an average closing price of at least $1.00 over a consecutive 30 trading-day period (Section 802.01C). The notice does not immediately affect the company's listing; Optimum has the opportunity to submit a compliance plan to the NYSE within a defined period. A sub-$1 price non-compliance notice is a significant negative signal; if Optimum fails to regain compliance, delisting follows, which would severely restrict trading and access to capital.

8-KMaterial agreementJul 68-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
AI summary

Optimum Communications' indirect subsidiary Cablevision Litchfield entered into a Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement on July 6, 2026, adding a $250 million UnSub incremental term loan at a fixed 9.0% interest rate, maturing November 25, 2028, with no amortization. JPMorgan Chase is administrative and collateral agent. Proceeds are for general corporate purposes. Adding $250M at a fixed 9% rate is a significant debt cost for a cable subsidiary, but the non-amortizing structure minimizes near-term cash obligations.

8-KShareholder voteJun 128-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Optimum Communications, Inc. held its 2026 Annual Meeting on June 10, 2026, with Class A and Class B stockholders voting together as a single class. Shareholders elected nine directors — including controlling-family members Patrick Drahi and David Drahi alongside Dexter Goei, Dennis Mathew, Raymond Svider, and others — to one-year terms; and ratified the independent auditor. Routine governance filing; the Drahi family's dual-class structure maintains concentrated control over the Altice USA-related entity.

8-KMaterial agreementJun 18-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 3.02: Unregistered equity sale · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

Optimum Communications, Inc. (formerly Altice USA) announced a complex multi-part restructuring on May 29, 2026 designed to insulate assets from subsidiary CSC Holdings’ debt negotiations: (1) an internal reorganization ring-fencing unrestricted assets; (2) a $300 million institutional private placement of Series A Preferred Units in newly formed unrestricted subsidiary CSC Investments II LLC (‘Unsub Topco’); (3) a private exchange allowing controlling shareholders (Next Alt/Next Partner) and insiders to swap Optimum common stock for Unsub Topco preferred units at $2.50/share; and (4) a cash tender offer for unaffiliated public stockholders at $2.50/share. This is a highly material, potentially transformative restructuring with significant implications for common stockholders, signaling that the company anticipates difficulty refinancing CSC Holdings’ funded debt obligations.

8-KOfficer or director changeApr 28-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
8-KOfficer or director changeMar 138-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
8-KMaterial agreementMar 98-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Optimum Invests $6 Million to Strengthen Network in Lubbock, Texasgurufocus.com·3d agoOptimum Receives Notice From NYSE Regarding Continued Listing Standardbusinesswire.com·16d agoSPECTRUM AND OPTIMUM EXPAND STRATEGIC COLLABORATION TO ENHANCE LOCAL NEWS ACCESS AND ADVERTISING SOLUTIONSprnewswire.com·18d agoLightpath Enters the Atlanta Market with High-Capacity Managed Bandwidth Servicesglobenewswire.com·20d agoOptimum Q2 Earnings Miss Tests Its 2026 Outlook and Cost Disciplinezacks.com·20d ago

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