Optimum Communications (OPTU) Tax Rate (2016 - 2024)
Optimum Communications (OPTU) reported Tax Rate of 12.05% for Q2 2026, down 23.07 percentage points from 35.13% a year earlier but up 10.51 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Optimum Communications (OPTU) Tax Rate (2016 - 2024) Analysis & Trends
Over the twelve months ended Jun 30, 2026, Optimum Communications' Tax Rate came in at 2.37%, down 30.32 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was 5.02%, up 0.08 percentage points from FY2024.
- Tax Rate has a five-year change of -18.94 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- By year, Tax Rate came in at 4.94% in FY2024 (-28.40 pp), 33.34% in FY2023 (-23.91 pp), 57.25% in FY2022 (+34.66 pp) and 22.59% in FY2021 (-1.37 pp).
- Five-year quarterly Tax Rate spans a low of -291.59% in Q4 2022 and a high of 69.31% in Q2 2024.
- Year over year, Tax Rate has now declined in each of the last five quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -6.48 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The high point for year-over-year Tax Rate in five years was Q4 2023 (a gain of 328.62 percentage points); the low point was Q4 2022 (a drop of 297.35 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, the three quarters before Q2 2026 came in at 1.54% (Q1 2026), 38.10% (Q4 2025) and 0.09% (Q3 2025).
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Tax Rate (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verizon Communications | 191.08 Bn | 155.48 Bn | 27.03 Bn | 25.12% |
| 2 | T-Mobile US | 175.17 Bn | 159.92 Bn | 14.76 Bn | 25.16% |
| 3 | At&T | 167.81 Bn | 115.76 Bn | 25.82 Bn | 13.47% |
| 4 | Grupo Televisa, S.A.B | 146.22 Bn | 134.85 Bn | 318.12 Mn | - |
| 5 | Comcast | 76.40 Bn | 40.65 Bn | - | 25.89% |
| 6 | Chunghwa Telecom | 35.35 Bn | 31.20 Bn | 728.80 Mn | 19.26% |
| 7 | EchoStar | 26.08 Bn | 17.22 Bn | 1.65 Bn | 13.56% |
| 8 | AST SpaceMobile | 23.11 Bn | 23.62 Bn | 7.95 Mn | - |
| 9 | Bce | 18.79 Bn | 17.12 Bn | - | - |
| 10 | Optimum Communications | 454.62 Mn | -3.80 Bn | 1.44 Bn | - |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2024 | 69.31% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 26.58% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 36.13% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 49.35% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 26.85% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 22.99% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 29.07% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 5.76% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 27.99% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 23.53% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 28.68% |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 8.37% |
| Sep 30, 2020 | 108.96% |
| Jun 30, 2020 | 34.54% |
| Mar 31, 2020 | 109.92% |
| Sep 30, 2019 | 32.86% |
| Jun 30, 2019 | 32.26% |
| Sep 30, 2018 | 73.99% |
| Jun 20, 2016 | 7.00% |
API Access
Optimum Communications Tax Rate API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=tax-rate&ticker=OPTU&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "tax-rate", "ticker": "OPTU", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=tax-rate&ticker=OPTU&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();