NASDAQ:DISCA - DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock Stock Price, Price Target & More

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "DISCA."

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock declared that its board has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Monday, July 31st 2017, which allows the company to buyback outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock (NASDAQ:DISCA) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 8th. The company reported $0.53 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.45 by $0.08. The business had revenue of $2.31 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.24 billion. DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock had a positive return on equity of 19.34% and a negative net margin of 7.40%. DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock's quarterly revenue was up 43.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.41 EPS. View DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock's Earnings History.

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July, 30th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock.

22 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock's stock. Their forecasts range from $18.00 to $30.00. On average, they anticipate DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock's share price to reach $26.00 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock.

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 33,135,570 shares, an increase of 11.9% from the May 15th total of 29,623,945 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,963,951 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.7 days. Approximately 21.8% of the shares of the company are sold short. View DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock's Current Options Chain.

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Media headlines about DISCA stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock earned a media sentiment score of 0.17 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the company an impact score of 46.66 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include New South Capital Management Inc. (1.45%), Smead Capital Management Inc. (1.16%), Millennium Management LLC (0.55%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.53%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.50%) and Northern Trust Corp (0.49%). Company insiders that own DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock stock include Adria Alpert-Romm, Bruce Campbell, David Leavy, Gunnar Wiedenfels, J David Wargo, John C Malone, Paul A Gould, Paul J Guagliardo, S Decker Anstrom and Savalle Sims. View Institutional Ownership Trends for DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock.

DISCA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Element Capital Management LLC, Jane Street Group LLC, South Dakota Investment Council, Glen Harbor Capital Management LLC, Guggenheim Capital LLC, Gamco Investors INC. ET AL and BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA. Company insiders that have sold DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock company stock in the last year include Adria Alpert-Romm, Bruce Campbell, David Leavy and Savalle Sims. View Insider Buying and Selling for DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock.

DISCA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, New South Capital Management Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS Group AG, Smead Capital Management Inc., AO Asset Management LP, Impax Asset Management LLC and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock stock in the last two years include Gunnar Wiedenfels, J David Wargo, John C Malone, Paul J Guagliardo and S Decker Anstrom. View Insider Buying and Selling for DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock.

Shares of DISCA 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 DISCA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.86.

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock has a market capitalization of $14.68 billion and generates $6.87 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-337,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $2.24 on an earnings per share basis. DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock employs 7,000 workers across the globe.

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock's mailing address is 1 DISCOVERY PLACE, SILVER SPRING MD, 20910. The company can be reached via phone at 240-662-2000 or via email at [email protected]