NASDAQ:CMCSA - Comcast Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Comcast declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 10th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, July 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Wednesday, July 25th. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.17%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, July 2nd. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Comcast shares split on the morning of 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 announced that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, April 12th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy up to 6.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 25th. The cable giant reported $0.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.59 by $0.03. The cable giant earned $22.79 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $22.74 billion. Comcast had a net margin of 26.79% and a return on equity of 16.14%. Comcast's revenue was up 10.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.53 earnings per share. View Comcast's Earnings History.

Comcast is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 26th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Comcast.

26 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Comcast's stock. Their predictions range from $35.00 to $63.00. On average, they anticipate Comcast's stock price to reach $46.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 31.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Comcast in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 19 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

Comcast saw a drop in short interest in the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 57,472,123 shares, a drop of 16.6% from the June 15th total of 68,928,394 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 40,608,295 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's shares are short sold. View Comcast's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Comcast include Walt Disney (DIS), Twenty-First Century Fox Inc Class A (FOXA), Time Warner (TWX), Charter Communications (CHTR), Rogers Communications Inc. Class B (RCI), Liberty Global PLC Class A (LBTYA), Liberty Global PLC Class B (LBTYB), Liberty Global PLC Class C (LBTYK), DISH Network (DISH), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock (DISCA), Liberty Broadband Corp Series A (LBRDA), Altice USA (ATUS), Discovery Inc Series C (DISCK) and Viacom, Inc. Class B (VIAB).

Press coverage about CMCSA stock has trended somewhat negative this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a media sentiment score of -0.01 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the cable giant an impact score of 45.76 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Comcast's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of Montreal Can (0.34%), DnB Asset Management AS (0.06%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), Hexavest Inc. (0.04%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.03%) and Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (0.03%). 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 Fisher Asset Management LLC, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., DnB Asset Management AS, Chesley Taft & Associates LLC, RDL Financial Inc., V Wealth Management LLC, Guardian Investment Management and Grassi Investment Management. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Bank of Montreal Can, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Denali Advisors LLC, Handelsbanken Fonder AB, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Addenda Capital 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CMCSA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $34.97.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $161.16 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.