NASDAQ:CMCSA - Comcast Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Comcast announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 9th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, July 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.21 per share on Wednesday, July 24th. This represents a $0.84 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.95%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, July 2nd. View Comcast's Dividend History.

Comcast's stock split before market open on Monday, February 20th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 26th 2017. The newly minted 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 Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) posted its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The cable giant reported $0.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.75 by $0.03. The cable giant had revenue of $26.86 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $27.08 billion. Comcast had a return on equity of 17.50% and a net margin of 11.64%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 23.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.65 earnings per share. View Comcast's Earnings History.

Comcast is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Comcast.

21 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Comcast's stock. Their predictions range from $21.00 to $57.00. On average, they anticipate Comcast's share price to reach $45.5728 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 5.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Comcast.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Comcast in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 16 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Comcast.

News stories about CMCSA stock have trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Comcast earned a daily sentiment score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the cable giant a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Comcast.

Comcast saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 81,374,800 shares, an increase of 8.9% from the June 30th total of 74,728,100 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 18,500,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.4 days. Currently, 1.8% of the company's stock are sold short. View Comcast's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Comcast include Walt Disney (DIS), Charter Communications (CHTR), Rogers Communications (RCI), Liberty Global (LBTYB), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Broadband Corp Series A (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), Altice USA (ATUS), Roku (ROKU), DISH Network (DISH), Discovery Communications (DISCA), Discovery Inc Series C (DISCK), Viacom (VIAB) and Shaw Communications (SJR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Comcast investors own include AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Bank of America (bac), Walt Disney (DIS), General Electric (GE), Verizon Communications (VZ), Micron Technology (MU), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Comcast's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.63%), BlackRock Inc. (7.16%), Invesco Ltd. (1.35%), Northern Trust Corp (1.21%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.18%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.08%). 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 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, 3G Capital Partners LP, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Quest Capital Management Inc. ADV, Suvretta Capital Management LLC, Southpoint Capital Advisors LP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and California Public Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Comcast company stock in the last year include Arthur R Block, Brian L Roberts, Daniel C Murdock, David L Cohen, David N Watson, Kenneth J Bacon and Stephen B Burke. View Insider Buying and Selling for Comcast.

CMCSA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, APG Asset Management N.V., BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. and DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale. 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 $43.18.

Comcast has a market capitalization of $195.97 billion and generates $94.51 billion in revenue each year. The cable giant earns $11.73 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.55 on an earnings per share basis. Comcast employs 184,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Comcast.

The official website for Comcast is http://corporate.comcast.com/.

Comcast's mailing address is One Comcast Center, Philadelphia PA, 19103. The cable giant can be reached via phone at 215-286-1700.