October 11th, 2004

SpeculatingStocks.com Stock Pick: Charter Communications, Inc. (CHTR)

Price: $1.32 (long-term strong buy)

Charter Communications, Inc. is a broadband communications company providing a full range of advanced broadband services to the home. Charter provides cable television, business-to-business video, data and Internet protocol (IP) solutions through Charter Business(TM).

CHTR's largest investor is Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. CHTR is also heavily owned by Wally Weitz, a famous Nebraska-based investor. These two names are keeping CHTR afloat even when the company has $18 billion in net debt.

Everyone is saying sell CHTR, we believe there is still a pop in store for the speculative investor. At this moment 55% of the stock is being shorted. If good news ever came out or the company somehow began to turn around operations then there'd be a spectacular short squeeze.

SpeculatingStocks.com Target Price: We believe $2.50 is not out of the realm of possibilities if good news comes out of CHTR.