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

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

Comcast declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 27th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, October 3rd will be given 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 of this dividend is Tuesday, October 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 payable 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 authorized a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, April 12th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 6.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 26th. The cable giant reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' 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 return on equity of 15.92% and a net margin of 27.42%. The business's revenue was up 2.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets 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 in 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 days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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 B (LBTYB), Liberty Global PLC Class A (LBTYA), Liberty Global PLC Class C (LBTYK), DISH Network (DISH), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband Corp Series A (LBRDA), DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock (DISCA), Discovery Inc Series C (DISCK), Altice USA (ATUS) and Viacom, Inc. Class B (VIAB).

Media headlines about CMCSA stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news 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 media and rumor sentiment score of 0.02 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the cable giant an impact score of 45.58 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View Recent Headlines for Comcast.

Comcast's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 purchased 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 $165.34 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.