Steve Mandel
of Lone Pine Capital made a substantial 2,103.97% increase to his
Charter Communications (
CHTR
) holding on Feb. 4,
GuruFocus Real Time Picks
reports. Whereas previously he owned 327,422 shares of the
company, after the transaction he owns 7,216,285 shares, paying
$78 each on average for the new shares. Charter Communications'
stock price has perked up 7% in the day since Mandel made the
increase. It is at $81.85 on Thursday afternoon.
U.S.-based broadband and cable communications company Charter
Communications provides video, HD programming, digital video
recording, high-speed internet and telephone services in 25
states. It has an $8.24 billion market cap.
In the past several days, Chart Communications renewed carriage
agreements covering retransmission consent for CBS-owned stations
and continued carriage of Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network
and Smithsonian Channel on its cable television platform. The
agreement encompasses new online and on-demand availability of
programming from CBS and Showtime.
In addition, it announced a new distribution agreement to air
Disney's sports, news and entertainment content to its customers
via television, computer, smartphone, table, gaming console and
internet-enabled televisions. New programming will begin airing
in the first half of 2013.
Talk has been circulating that the company could be preparing for
another deal with a larger company.
Two new executives will join the company, it announced on Feb. 4.
Charles Fisher will become senior vice president corporate
finance and Stefan Anninger will take the role of vice president
of investor relations. The company brought in Fisher specifically
to work on capital markets and merger and acquisition activities.
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