An 8-Day Losing Streak Has Charter Communications Stock Down 20%
Charter Communications (CHTR) stock has now moved lower for 8 consecutive trading days, a cumulative loss of 20%. That streak has erased about $3.5 billion from the company’s market value, which now stands at about $14 billion. For anyone holding the stock, the persistent selling has pushed the price to a new low for the year.
How The Streak Stacks Up Against The S&P 500
Here is how CHTR stock stacks up against the S&P 500 over the streak and the periods around it:
| Return Period | CHTR | S&P 500 |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | -0.6% | -0.8% |
| 8D (Current Streak) | -20.0% | 0.6% |
| 1M (21D) | -22.4% | 0.7% |
| 3M (63D) | -11.3% | 4.7% |
| YTD 2026 | -44.1% | 12.6% |
| 2025 | -39.1% | 16.4% |
| 2024 | -11.8% | 23.3% |
| 2023 | 14.6% | 24.2% |
What do the fundamentals show?
The selling has been specific to the stock. Over the same 8 trading days, the S&P 500 returned +0.6%. While such streaks are not unique, they are uncommon; just one other S&P 500 stock is currently on a losing streak of this length or longer. The sources do not show why this move happened.
Revenue over the last twelve months declined 1.5%, against a median growth of 6.8% among its Communication Services peers. However, its operating margin of 23.8% is above the sector median of 20.1%. The stock trades at a price-to-earnings multiple of 2.8, far below the median of 17.0 for its sector.
A streak is information, not an instruction.
An extended move in one direction is a signal about momentum and where the market’s attention is focused. It is not a command to buy or sell. The disciplined response is to use the new information as a prompt to check the business against its price. Charter Communications stock trades at about $116.61 a share as of 9/23/2026, a level that is also its 52-week low.
A slide like this poses an obvious follow-up: which marked-down stocks are actually worth buying? Our Buy the Dip screen runs that test every day, flagging beaten-down names whose fundamentals still hold up.
Those watching the group rather than this one name have another route: a communication services ETF like XLC holds the whole group, not the single stock. It is still a concentrated bet on that one theme, though, which is exactly the gap the portfolio below closes.
Weakness In One Name Should Be Noise, Not News
For a diversified holder, a streak like this is a data point. For a concentrated one, it is a hole in the plan. The difference is never the stock; it is the portfolio built around it.
Building that portfolio is what the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio does: roughly 30 businesses with the cash generation and balance-sheet strength to absorb a bad month, selected and re-balanced by rules. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines the three major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Make the next streak, in either direction, someone else’s drama.