Charter $CHTR reported Q1 2026 earnings last week.
Not Great, Not Terrible… Some aspects of the thesis got weakened, others got a boost.
Read the full report here: https://t.co/MFTSeLxTTV
The market is pricing it like a melting ice cube 🧊
But at $10B+ in FCF, management could retire ~10% of the float annually at these levels.
Even modest re-rating to 15x on $26+ FCF/share gets you near $400 🚀
Adobe ($ADBE) at $225 — the numbers are getting harder to ignore.
FCF: $1.3B → $10.3B over 15 years.
Per-share FCF: $2.71 → $25.52.
Share count down ~18% from peak.
At 8.8x FCF, this is the cheapest Adobe has been in the entire post-cloud era.
@Mayhem4Markets@FactSet I agree fully on $CHTR. Once the CapEx inflection and user stabilisation is confirmed in Q2/Q3 and FCF forecasts are revised a lot of people will need to cover their shorts.
At ~6x FCF per share $CHTR could quickly climb past $450 (+113%)
This doesn’t factor any potential multiple expansion.
You can see in 2023 despite worsening metrics shares traded at ~12x free cashflow
$CHTR is heading for a CAPEX cliff that could propel the stock to +$450
Let me explain💡:
Charter has been spending at peak capital intensity - $11.7 billion in 2025 and has guided for $11.4 billion in 2026.
This pace of spending however won’t last much longer.
The per-share math becomes even more compelling when you layer in buybacks.
At $218/share, every $1B of buybacks retires ~4.6 million shares.
If Charter deploys $5–7B annually in repurchases the share count could decline by 5% per year, creating an exponential FCF trajectory
CHTR trades at 6x earnings, 17% FCF yield, with 26% short interest. The bull case isn't growth — it's a mechanical capex decline from $11.7B → $8B that could more than double FCF.
My full deep dive on why this might be the most asymmetric setup in telecom👇
Adobe $ADBE is down 60% from its highs. The CEO just quit. The DOJ sued them. Wall Street thinks AI will kill the business.
And yet: 12% revenue growth, 89% gross margins, $10B+ in free cash flow, trading at 11x earnings.
I spent weeks pulling this apart. Here’s the full thesis
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