NASDAQ:CMCSA - Comcast Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Comcast announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 27th. Shareholders 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 yield of 2.13%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 2nd. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Shares of Comcast split on the morning of 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 declared that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Wednesday, April 12th 2017, which authorizes the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 6.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership 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 earned $21.74 billion during 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%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $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 analysts have issued 1 year 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 $45.7917 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.6% 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 decline in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 65,710,822 shares, a decline 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 days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.6 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company's stock are sold short. View Comcast's Current Options Chain.

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Headlines about CMCSA stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern reports. Accern identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.02 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the cable giant an impact score of 45.53 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. 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 bought 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 $35.60.

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.