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Operating Expense Breakdown
Details core costs like network maintenance, customer service, and marketing, offering insight into how efficiently AT&T operates and where it’s focusing its spending to maintain or grow its market position.Broadcast/Programming costs disappear after 2022 — the WarnerMedia divestiture materially reduced the recurring cost base — while impairments and restructuring produce lumpy, large one‑offs that distort comparables. Equipment costs show pronounced year‑end spikes and a big 2025Q4 jump, consistent with device sales seasonality and acquisition/integration activity that management said is dilutive to near‑term EBITDA. SG&A and other cost lines are relatively stable, indicating operational discipline; overall, the expense profile is being reshaped by disposals and heavy fiber/acquisition investment, pressuring margins and near‑term FCF.
Date | Depreciation and Amortization | Equipment | Broadcast, Programming, and Operations | Other Cost of Revenues | Selling, General, and Admininstrative | Impairments and Restructuring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 30, 2026 | $4.97B | $5.74B | $0.00 | $6.31B | $7.22B | $286.00M |
Mar 31, 2026 | $4.97B | $6.30B | $0.00 | $6.26B | $7.32B | $0.00 |
Dec 31, 2025 | $5.13B | $8.50B | $0.00 | $6.32B | $7.40B | $334.00M |
Sep 30, 2025 | $5.32B | $5.47B | $0.00 | $6.35B | $7.45B | $0.00 |
Jun 30, 2025 | $5.25B | $5.74B | $0.00 | $6.41B | $6.95B | $0.00 |
Mar 31, 2025 | $5.19B | $5.69B | $0.00 | $6.34B | $7.14B | $504.00M |
Dec 31, 2024 | $5.37B | $7.36B | $0.00 | $6.84B | $7.39B | $14.00M |
Sep 30, 2024 | $5.09B | $4.93B | $0.00 | $6.70B | $6.96B | $4.42B |
Jun 30, 2024 | $5.07B | $4.82B | $0.00 | $6.63B | $7.04B | $480.00M |
Mar 31, 2024 | $5.05B | $5.14B | $0.00 | $6.81B | $7.02B | $159.00M |