15. Charter Communications
15. Charter Communications
Fortune 500 rank: 351
2011 revenue: $7.2 billion
2011 total shareholder return: 46.2%
Ticker: CHTR

Investors are betting the fourth-largest U.S. cable provider will turn around after posting net losses in all but one of its quarters since emerging from bankruptcy in 2009.

In December, the company named Thomas Rutledge as Charter's new CEO. Rutledge, the former chief operation officer of Cablevision, the fifth-largest U.S. cable operator, helped the company add telephone, broadband and video customers in the New York area.


By Nin-Hai Tseng @FortuneMagazine - Last updated May 07 2012: 10:52 AM ET
Join the Conversation
Most Popular
 
 
 
 
 
Biggest stock losers

Investors in these Fortune 500 companies saw devastating losses

Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.