Dave Schaefer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (CCOI) Q3 2025 Earnings Call
Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCOI) Q3 2025 earnings conference call, held 2025-11-06. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.
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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.137 this conference call will be posted on the Cogent's website when it becomes available. 00:00:05.137 -- 00:00:10.223 Cogent's summary of financial and operational results attached to its press release can 00:00:10.223 -- 00:00:13.027 be downloaded from the Cogent website. 00:00:13.027 -- 00:00:15.390 I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. 00:00:15.390 -- 00:00:21.655 Dave Schaefer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cogent Communications Holdings. 00:00:21.918 -- 00:00:24.141 Hey, thank you, and good morning, everyone. 00:00:24.141 -- 00:00:28.426 Welcome to our third quarter 2025 earnings call. 00:00:28.426 -- 00:00:33.575 I'm Dave Schaefer, Cochran's Chief Executive Officer, and with me on today's 00:00:33.575 -- 00:00:38.500 call is Tad Weed, our Chief Financial Officer. 00:00:38.500 -- 00:00:43.926 I'd like to recognize a number of significant events in the quarter and discuss 00:00:43.926 -- 00:00:48.110 a few matters and then turn things over to Tad. 00:00:48.110 -- 00:00:53.916 First, our program of return of capital and our aggregate 00:00:53.916 -- 00:00:59.134 leverage. Following extensive discussions with our Board of Directors, and 00:00:59.134 -- 00:01:01.718 engagement with shareholders 00:01:01.718 -- 00:01:04.341 and bondholders, 00:01:04.341 -- 00:01:09.508 we have refined our capital allocation priorities to strengthen 00:01:09.508 -- 00:01:11.768 our financial 00:01:11.891 -- 00:01:17.298 flexibility and accelerate our de-levering strategy. 00:01:17.298 -- 00:01:22.745 The decision to reduce our quarterly dividend to two cents per share 00:01:22.745 -- 00:01:28.153 per quarter was made after careful evaluation It will allow 00:01:28.153 -- 00:01:33.199 us to redirect capital towards reducing leverage w...