NASDAQ:CMCSA - Comcast Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

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

Comcast announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 27th. Stockholders 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 dividend yield of 2.15%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 issued 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 approved a share repurchase 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 reacquire up to 6.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) posted its earnings results on Thursday, July, 26th. The cable giant reported $0.65 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.61 by $0.04. The cable giant had revenue of $21.74 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $21.85 billion. Comcast had a net margin of 27.42% and a return on equity of 15.92%. The firm's revenue was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.52 earnings per share. 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 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 29.7% 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 decrease in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 65,710,822 shares, a decrease of 8.2% from the July 13th total of 71,552,338 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 24,877,146 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Currently, 1.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Comcast's Current Options Chain.

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Media headlines about CMCSA stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing 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 nearest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a coverage optimism score of 0.19 on Accern's scale. They also gave media stories about the cable giant an impact score of 46.25 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, FMR LLC, Natixis, Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, Boston Partners, Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd., ING Groep NV and Artisan Partners Limited Partnership. 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 $35.30.

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.