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Charter Communications Debt Offering, Really More Refinancing (CHTR)
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Charter Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) is actually managing to trade higher despite a securities offering. The company offered $750 million in senior unsecured notes, but it has also announced a tender offer for debt securities.
The subsidiaries of CCO Holdings and CCO Holdings Capital offered the $750 million of senior unsecured notes due 2020. BofA Merrill Lynch is the lead book-running manager for the offering. The debt tendered in the offering is as follows:
Charter’s re-emerged shares have performed rather well since the early-2010 exit from bankruptcy. The cable outfit shed about $8 billion in debt and lowered its costs of borrowing significantly. Now it has seen revenues growing, although its profitability continues to remain a struggle as the consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters is -$2.97 EPS for 2011 and and only $0.87 EPS for 2012. At the end of 2008, Charter’s long-term debt was over $21 billion. As of September 30, 2011, the new long-term debt was listed as $12.58 billion.
Shares were trading as low as $30 after the former creditors started unloading the new shares in early 2010, but this stock was challenging $60.00 earlier this year. Shares are up 1.6% at $53.50 today and the 52-week range is $32.83 to $61.15.
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