Comscore (SCOR) 10% Owner Charter Acquires 7.51M Shares via Merger

What Happened
Charter Communications, reported as a 10% owner of Comscore (SCOR), acquired beneficial ownership of 3,286,825 shares of Comscore common stock and 4,223,621 shares reported as Series C Convertible Preferred (a derivative interest) on August 19, 2026. These holdings were acquired not by an open-market trade but because Charter completed a corporate Combination that resulted in Charter acquiring Liberty Broadband and, with it, the Comscore securities Liberty Broadband owned. No per-share prices were reported on the Form 4 (listed as N/A). The two line items total 7,510,446 reported shares/interests.

Key Details

• Transaction date: August 19, 2026; Form 4 filed August 21, 2026 reporting the Combination.
• Reported amounts: 3,286,825 common shares (acquisition) and 4,223,621 Series C Convertible Preferred (derivative acquisition); prices listed as N/A.
• Shares owned after transaction: not individually specified in the Form 4; filing states Charter became beneficial owner of all Comscore shares previously owned by Liberty Broadband.
• Footnotes: (F1) acquisition resulted from the Combination that moved Liberty Broadband’s holdings to Charter; (F2) record holder is Charter Communications Holding Company, LLC with an ownership/control chain up to Charter; (F3) Series C Convertible Preferred are convertible into common stock at holder’s option (subject to a 49.99% beneficial ownership cap) and pay cash in lieu of fractional shares.
• Filing timeliness: Form 4 was filed two days after the reported transaction date (Aug 19 → filed Aug 21).

Context
This is an institutional ownership change resulting from a corporate merger, not a typical insider buy/sell by an executive. The derivative line represents preferred stock that can be converted into common shares under the Certificate of Designations (with conversion limits); it is not the same as an options exercise or open-market purchase. For retail investors, such transferred holdings reflect corporate reorganization and ownership consolidation rather than a management trading signal.