NASDAQ:CMCSA - Comcast Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

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

Comcast declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 27th. Investors of record on Wednesday, October 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Wednesday, October 24th. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.13%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, October 2nd. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Shares of Comcast split on Monday, February 20th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 26th 2017. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell 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 announced that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Wednesday, April 12th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 6.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) issued its earnings results on Thursday, July, 26th. The cable giant reported $0.65 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.61 by $0.04. The cable giant had revenue of $21.74 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $21.85 billion. Comcast had a net margin of 27.42% and a return on equity of 15.92%. Comcast's quarterly revenue was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.52 EPS. View Comcast's Earnings History.

Comcast is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Comcast.

25 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Comcast's stock. Their predictions range from $35.00 to $63.00. On average, they anticipate Comcast's stock price to reach $45.7917 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Comcast.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Comcast in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 20 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

Comcast saw a drop in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 65,710,822 shares, a drop of 8.2% from the July 13th total of 71,552,338 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 24,877,146 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Comcast's Current Options Chain.

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News articles about CMCSA stock have trended somewhat positive on Friday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a daily sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the cable giant an impact score of 46.32 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for Comcast.

Comcast's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.19%), FMR LLC (2.41%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.15%), Boston Partners (0.49%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.44%) and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.42%). 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, Lawrence J Salva, Neil Smit 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 Veritas Asset Management LLP, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Voya Investment Management LLC, TD Asset Management Inc., Morgan Stanley, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. and USS Investment Management Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Comcast company stock in the last year include Arthur R Block, Brian L Roberts, Daniel C Murdock, David N Watson, Kenneth J Bacon and Stephen B Burke. View Insider Buying and Selling for Comcast.

CMCSA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, FMR LLC, Natixis, Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, Boston Partners, Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd. and ING Groep NV. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CMCSA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $35.74.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $162.93 billion and generates $84.53 billion in revenue each year. The cable giant earns $22.71 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.06 on an earnings per share basis. Comcast employs 164,000 workers across the globe.

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