What Comcast Investors Need to Know

Shares of Telecommunications sector company Comcast moved -1.6% today, and are now trading at a price of $42.48. The large-cap stock's daily volume was 11,132,929 compared to its average volume of 18,364,267. The S&P 500 index returned a 0.0% performance.

Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide. The company is based in Philadelphia and has 186,000 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $171,005,526,016. Comcast currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 2.6% per year.

26 analysts are following Comcast and have set target prices ranging from $41.0 to $55.0 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of buy. At today's prices, CMCSA is trading -13.77% away from its average analyst target price of $49.27 per share.

Over the last year, CMCSA's share price has increased by 35.0%, which represents a difference of 20.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $47.46 per share whereas its 52 week low is $31.13. With average free cash flows of $16.23 Billion that have been growing at an average rate of 1.4% over the last 6 years, Comcast is in a position to continue its strong stock performance trend.

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023 27,255,000 11,434,000 15,821,000 0.22
2022 26,413,000 10,626,000 15,787,000 -20.95
2021 29,146,000 9,174,000 19,972,000 28.37
2020 24,737,000 9,179,000 15,558,000 -1.18
2019 25,697,000 9,953,000 15,744,000 8.41
2018 24,297,000 9,774,000 14,523,000
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