Time Warner Cable Shares Fall After It Reports Mixed Q4 Performance

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 5:01am PST

The stock is down about 3.3% in pre-market trading, possibly because the growth in residential broadband subscriptions was lower than some anticipated. Time Warner Cable reported net income for Q4 of $514M, -8.9% vs the same period last year, on revenues of $5.49B, +9.9%. Revenues were just a hair below the Street’s forecast for $5.50B. But adjusted earnings of $1.57 a share beat expectations for $1.55. Factoring out systems acquisitions last year, including, Insight Communications, Time Warner Cable’s revenues from residential video services fell 3.1% to $2.55B. The total number of residential video subscribers fell 129,000 to 12.03M. The company says that its video programming expenses per subscriber increased 5.1% vs the end of 2011 to $31.28 a month which was “primarily driven by contractual rate increases and the carriage of new networks, partially offset by a decline in transactional video-on-demand costs.” Revenues from residential Internet services were up 11.4% to $1.28B as the total number of subscribers grew 75,000 to 10.94M. “In the year ahead, we plan to focus on operational excellence as we invest to capture long-term opportunities and drive profitable growth,” CEO Glenn Britt says.

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Time Warner Cable Beats Q2 Earnings Forecasts With Help From Price Hikes

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 4:02am PDT

The report for this quarter is more complicated than usual due to the acquisition in February of Insight Communications. Still, many investors should find the numbers reassuring — even if they prefer yesterday’s cable system results from Comcast. … Read More »

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UPDATE: Time Warner Cable’s Disappointing 3Q Chills Cable Stocks

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 4:34am PDT

UPDATE, 9:25 AM: Time Warner Cable’s shares are off 6.9% at midday — even as the overall market is rallying on an encouraging economic report and news of a deal to help resolve Greece’s debt … Read More »

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Time Warner Cable 2Q Profits +22.8%, Soaring Past Estimates

The economy is weak, but you wouldn’t know it from Time Warner Cable’s 2Q earnings. The No. 2 cable operator reports net income of $420M on revenues of $4.9B, up 4.4% vs the same period last year. Earnings, at … Read More »

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