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

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

Comcast declared 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.39%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, July 2nd. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Comcast shares split before market open on 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 announced that its board has approved a stock buyback program 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 purchase up to 6.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced 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 had revenue of $22.79 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $22.74 billion. Comcast had a net margin of 26.79% and a return on equity of 16.14%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 10.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.53 earnings per share. 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Comcast's shares. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $54.00. On average, they expect Comcast's stock price to reach $46.0909 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

Comcast saw a increase in short interest during 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 volume of 24,058,126 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.8 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 (LBTYA), Liberty Global (LBTYB), 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 stories about CMCSA stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a media sentiment score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the cable giant an impact score of 46.64 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Comcast's stock is owned by a variety of 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 acquired 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 $31.75.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $148.07 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.