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. Investors 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, July 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 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 declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan 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 shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 25th. The cable giant reported $0.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate 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%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 10.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company 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 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Comcast's shares. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $54.00. On average, they expect Comcast's share price to reach $46.0909 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

Comcast saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 68,311,681 shares, an increase of 2.1% from the April 30th total of 66,894,209 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 24,058,126 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days. Currently, 1.5% of the company's shares are sold short.

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 headlines about CMCSA stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a media sentiment score of 0.17 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the cable giant an impact score of 46.43 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Comcast's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 purchased 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 $31.63.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $150.99 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.