Cable Stocks Are the Cheapest in the S&P 500. There’s Good Reason.

Inflation is stubbornly high, but not in home broadband service. There, telecom operators are making fiberoptic inroads in a business long dominated by cable television companies. The result has been discounting: UBS reports that prices for various broadband service tiers are down 7% to 14% for fiber over the past year, and 17% to 27% for cable.