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 2.01%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, October 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 created 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 declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, April 12th 2017, which authorizes the company to buyback $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 6.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced its earnings results on Thursday, July, 26th. The cable giant reported $0.65 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.61 by $0.04. The cable giant had revenue of $21.74 billion for 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 firm's revenue was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $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 1-year target prices for Comcast's shares. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $63.00. On average, they expect Comcast's stock price to reach $45.7917 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 21.3% 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 increase in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 74,010,233 shares, an increase of 19.0% from the August 15th total of 62,178,138 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 13,399,206 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.5 days. Approximately 1.6% of the shares of the stock 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 A (LBTYA), Liberty Global PLC Class B (LBTYB), Liberty Global PLC Class C (LBTYK), DISH Network (DISH), Discovery Communications (DISCA), Discovery Inc Series C (DISCK), Liberty Broadband Corp Series A (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), Altice USA (ATUS) and Viacom, Inc. Class B (VIAB).

Press coverage about CMCSA stock has been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news 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 coverage optimism score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the cable giant an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for Comcast.

Comcast's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.19%), FMR LLC (2.41%), FMR LLC (2.41%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.15%), Northern Trust Corp (1.10%) and Boston Partners (0.49%). 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 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, FMR LLC, Natixis, Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, Boston Partners and Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd.. 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 $37.74.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $171.66 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.