Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value (Tables)

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Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value  
Schedule of assets and liabilities measured at fair value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 30, 2017

 

December 31, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quoted prices

 

Significant

 

 

 

Quoted prices

 

Significant

 

 

 

 

 

 

in active

 

other

 

 

 

in active

 

other

 

 

 

 

 

 

markets for

 

observable

 

 

 

markets for

 

observable

 

 

 

 

 

 

identical assets

 

inputs

 

 

 

identical assets

 

inputs

 

Description

 

Total

 

(Level 1)

 

(Level 2)

 

Total

 

(Level 1)

 

(Level 2)

 

 

 

(amounts in thousands)

 

Cash equivalents

 

$

134,574

 

134,574

 

 —

 

198,011

 

198,011

 

 —

 

Derivative instruments (1)

 

$

 —

 

 —

 

 —

 

49,019

 

 —

 

49,019

 

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(1)

As of December 31, 2016, the Company had an outstanding zero-strike call option on 704,908 shares of Liberty Broadband Series C common stock which expired in March 2017. The Company prepaid a premium of $47.9 million in December 2016. Liberty Broadband exercised its option to settle the contract in cash in March 2017 for cash proceeds of $50.0 million. The Company accounted for the zero-strike call option as a financial instrument asset due to its settlement provisions. Subsequent to September 30, 2017, the Company entered into another zero-strike call option on 527,156 shares of Liberty Broadband Series C common stock. The Company prepaid a premium of $47.7 million in October 2017.   

Schedule of fair value inputs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volatility

 

21.1%

 

Interest rate

 

1.3%

 

Dividend yield

 

0.0%

 

 

Schedule of realized and unrealized gains (losses) on financial instruments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three months ended

 

Nine months ended

 

 

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

 

 

2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016

 

 

 

(amounts in thousands)

 

Time Warner Cable investment (1)

 

$

 —

 

 —

 

 

 —

 

92,990

 

Derivative instruments (2)

 

 

2,675

 

 —

 

 

5,026

 

 —

 

 

 

$

2,675

 

 —

 

 

5,026

 

92,990

 


(1)

As discussed in note 4, Time Warner Cable merged with Charter on May 18, 2016.  Therefore the Company no longer has an investment in Time Warner Cable as of May 18, 2016, and the unrealized gain (loss) related to our investment in Time Warner Cable is recorded through this date. In connection with the merger, the Company exchanged, in a tax-free transaction, its shares of Time Warner Cable for shares of Charter Class A common stock.

 

(2)

As of December 31, 2016, the Company had an outstanding zero-strike call option on 704,908 shares of Liberty Broadband Series C common stock which the Company exercised in March 2017. In April 2017, the Company entered into another zero-strike call option on 600,242 shares of Liberty Broadband Series C common stock. The Company prepaid a premium of $50.0 million in April 2017. Upon expiration in June 2017, the call option was rolled into a new zero-strike call option on 600,242 shares of Liberty Broadband Series C common stock. Liberty Broadband exercised its option to settle the contract in cash in August 2017 for cash proceeds of $53.8 million.  The Company realized gains on the options outstanding and settled during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017.