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

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

Comcast announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 10th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, July 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Wednesday, July 25th. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.34%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, July 2nd. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Comcast's stock split on Monday, February 20th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 26th 2017. The newly minted shares were distributed 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 declared that its board has approved a stock buyback 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 repurchase up to 6.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 25th. The cable giant reported $0.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.59 by $0.03. The cable giant earned $22.79 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations 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% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.53 EPS. 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.

25 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Comcast's stock. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $54.00. On average, they anticipate Comcast's stock price to reach $46.2273 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

Comcast saw a decline in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 66,894,209 shares, a decline of 2.5% from the April 13th total of 68,601,947 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 30,033,837 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.2 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

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

News articles about CMCSA stock have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a news sentiment score of 0.14 on Accern's scale. They also gave media headlines about the cable giant an impact score of 45.37 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

Comcast's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.96%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.92%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.15%), Northern Trust Corp (1.12%), Franklin Resources Inc. (0.80%) and Veritas Asset Management LLP (0.74%). Company insiders that own Comcast stock include Arthur R Block, Brian L Roberts, Daniel C Murdock, David L Cohen, David N Watson, Judith Rodin, 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 OppenheimerFunds Inc., Findlay Park Partners LLP, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Scopus Asset Management L.P., FIL Ltd, Fiduciary Management Inc. WI and Swiss National Bank. 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 Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, BlackRock Inc., Franklin Resources Inc., Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., Summit Trail Advisors LLC, LSV Asset Management and Toronto Dominion Bank. 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 $32.51.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $150.20 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.