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. Stockholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.33%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, July 2nd. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Shares of Comcast split before market open 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 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 stock buyback program on Wednesday, April 12th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 6.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 25th. The cable giant reported $0.62 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' 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 company's revenue for the quarter was up 10.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $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.

26 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Comcast's stock. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $63.00. On average, they anticipate Comcast's stock price to reach $46.5652 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

Comcast saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 72,425,773 shares, an increase of 6.0% from the May 15th total of 68,311,681 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 20,818,114 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.5 days. Currently, 1.6% of the company's shares are short sold.

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), Liberty Global PLC Class B (LBTYB), Rogers Communications Inc. Class B (RCI), Liberty Global PLC Class A (LBTYA), Liberty Global PLC Class C (LBTYK), DISH Network (DISH), DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock (DISCA), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband Corp Series A (LBRDA), Discovery Communications (DISCK), Altice USA (ATUS) and Viacom, Inc. Class B (VIAB).

News headlines about CMCSA stock have been trending positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Comcast earned a media sentiment score of 0.34 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the cable giant an impact score of 43.35 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Comcast's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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, 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 $32.62.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $157.36 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.