Comcast Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NASDAQ:CMCSA)

Comcast trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CMCSA."

Comcast announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, January 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.21 per share on Wednesday, January 29th. This represents a $0.84 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.86%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, January 7th. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Comcast's stock split before market open on Monday, February 20th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 26th 2017. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, February 17th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Comcast stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced its earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The cable giant reported $0.79 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.75 by $0.04. The cable giant had revenue of $26.83 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $26.77 billion. Comcast had a net margin of 11.45% and a return on equity of 24.25%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 21.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.65 EPS. View Comcast's Earnings History.

Comcast is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Comcast.

21 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Comcast's stock. Their forecasts range from $21.00 to $64.00. On average, they anticipate Comcast's share price to reach $50.52 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Comcast.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Comcast in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

News articles about CMCSA stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Comcast earned a media sentiment score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the cable giant a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Comcast.

Comcast saw a decrease in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 76,050,000 shares, a decrease of 5.4% from the August 30th total of 80,390,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 16,350,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.7 days. Approximately 1.7% of the company's stock are short sold. View Comcast's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Comcast include Charter Communications (CHTR), Sirius XM (SIRI), Liberty Global (LBTYA), DISH Network (DISH), Amc Networks (AMCX) and Loral Space & Communications Ltd. (LORL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Comcast investors own include AT&T (T), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Bank of America (BAC), General Electric (GE), Verizon Communications (VZ), Micron Technology (MU), Alibaba Group (BABA) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Comcast's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.97%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.40%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.29%), Findlay Park Partners LLP (0.21%), Veritas Asset Management LLP (0.20%) and Rhumbline Advisers (0.18%). Company insiders that own Comcast stock include Arthur R Block, Brian L Roberts, Daniel C Murdock, David L Cohen, David N Watson, Kenneth J Bacon, Sheldon M Bonovitz and Stephen B Burke. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Comcast.

CMCSA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Findlay Park Partners LLP, First Trust Advisors LP, Bristol John W & Co. Inc. NY, SG Americas Securities LLC, Sawgrass Asset Management LLC, Factory Mutual Insurance Co. and Railway Pension Investments Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Comcast company stock in the last year include Arthur R Block, Brian L Roberts, Daniel C Murdock, David L Cohen, David N Watson, Kenneth J Bacon, Sheldon M Bonovitz and Stephen B Burke. View Insider Buying and Selling for Comcast.

CMCSA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, Alleghany Corp DE, Eagle Asset Management Inc., Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Bartlett & Co. LLC, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Carillon Tower Advisers Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Comcast.

Shares of CMCSA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CMCSA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $45.20.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $205.63 billion and generates $94.51 billion in revenue each year. The cable giant earns $11.73 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.55 on an earnings per share basis. Comcast employs 184,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Comcast.

The official website for Comcast is http://corporate.comcast.com/.

Comcast's mailing address is One Comcast Center, Philadelphia PA, 19103. The cable giant can be reached via phone at 215-286-1700.