ATUS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Optimum Communications | NYSE:ATUS)

Optimum Communications Inc acquired privately held US cable company Suddenlink in 2015 and Cablevision in 2016. Suddenlink's networks provide television, internet access, and phone services to roughly 4.5 million US homes and businesses located primarily in smaller markets, with major clusters in Texas, West Virginia, Idaho, Arizona, and Louisiana. Cablevision provides comparable services to about 5.5 million homes and businesses in the New York City metro area. Both regions now operate under the Optimum brand name. Altice Europe spun off Altice USA, which includes both the Suddenlink and Cablevision operations, to shareholders in 2018. Altice USA also owns News 12 Networks, which broadcasts local news in New York.

Optimum Communications trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ATUS.

As of December 8, 2025, ATUS stock price was flat at $1.79 with million shares trading.

ATUS has a beta of 1.01, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ATUS has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ATUS has a market cap of $841.00 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, ATUS traded as high as $5.57 and as low as $1.52.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ATUS belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VB, VBR, VXF, VTWO.

ATUS has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -30.1% while the SPY ETF gained +13.9%. ATUS has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -20.1% and 0.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned +5.9% and +3.7%, respectively.

ATUS support price is $1.73 and resistance is $1.85 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ATUS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.