| Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value |
(3) Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value
For assets and liabilities required to be reported at fair value, GAAP provides a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. Level 1 inputs are quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the reporting entity has the ability to access at the measurement date. Level 2 inputs are inputs, other than quoted market prices included within Level 1, that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability. The Company does not have any recurring assets or liabilities measured at fair value that would be considered Level 3.
The Company’s assets and (liabilities) measured at fair value are as follows:
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March 31, 2015
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December 31, 2014
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Quoted prices
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Significant
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Quoted prices
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Significant
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in active
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other
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in active
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other
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markets for
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observable
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markets for
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observable
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identical assets
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inputs
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identical assets
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inputs
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Description
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Total
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(Level 1)
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(Level 2)
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Total
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(Level 1)
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(Level 2)
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(amounts in thousands)
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Cash and cash equivalents
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$
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754,467
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754,467
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36,002
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36,002
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Short-term marketable securities
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$
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9,004
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9,004
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—
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9,001
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9,001
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—
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Available-for-sale securities
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$
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355,202
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355,202
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360,762
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360,762
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Time Warner Cable financial instruments (1) (2)
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$
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(71,530)
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—
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(71,530)
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(75,356)
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—
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(75,356)
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(1)
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As of December 31, 2014, the Company had an outstanding written call option on 625,000 Time Warner Cable shares with a strike price of $92.02 per share which expired in February 2015. Upon expiration, this written call option was rolled into a new written call option on 625,000 Time Warner Cable shares with a strike price of $100.39 per share which expires during February 2016. Additionally, as of December 31, 2014 and March 31, 2015, the Company had another outstanding written call option on 625,000 Time Warner Cable shares with a strike price of $90.84 per share which was scheduled to expire in May 2015. The Company cash settled this contract on April 1, 2015 for $36.7 million.
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(2)
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On March 27, 2015, Liberty Broadband entered into a cashless collar agreement with a financial institution on 1.7 million Time Warner Cable shares held by the Company with a put option strike price of $136.80 per share and a call option strike price of $161.62 per share. The liability associated with this instrument is included in the Other liabilities line item on the face of the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2015. In connection with this collar agreement, the Company also entered into a revolving loan agreement with an availability of $234 million (see note 7).
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The fair value of Level 2 derivative liabilities were derived from a Black-Scholes model using observable market data as the significant inputs. The inputs used in the model during the period (exclusive of the applicable trading price of Time Warner Cable stock and the strike prices associated with the call options and collar agreement) were as follows:
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Range
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Volatility
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21.4
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26.48
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Interest rate
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0.41
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%
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0.56
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%
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Dividend yield
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0
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%
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0.24
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%
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Other Financial Instruments
Other financial instruments not measured at fair value on a recurring basis include trade receivables, trade payables, accrued and other current liabilities. The carrying amount approximates fair value due to the short maturity of these instruments as reported on our condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Financial Instruments
Realized and unrealized gains (losses) on financial instruments are comprised of changes in the fair value of the following:
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Three months ended
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March 31,
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2015
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2014
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(amounts in thousands)
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Charter warrants (1)
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$
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(15,212)
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Time Warner Cable investment and financial instruments
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(1,329)
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2,510
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$
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(1,329)
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(12,702)
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(1)
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As discussed in note 5, Liberty Broadband exercised all of the Company’s outstanding warrants to purchase shares of Charter common stock during November 2014, subsequent to the completion of the Broadband Spin-Off.
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