Assessing Comcast – Beyond Technicals to Analyze Fundamentals

By Naomi Wentworth • Friday, October 17 15:17 • Permanent Link

Comcast logged a 0.8% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $29.5 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. CMCSA's trading volume is 10,906,961 compared to the stock's average volume of 23,588,843.

Comcast trades -24.52% away from its average analyst target price of $39.09 per share. The 28 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $31.0 to $49.0, and on average have given Comcast a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in CMCSA, you'll want to know the following:

Comcast's current price is -34.7% below its Graham number of $45.16, which implies the stock has a margin of safety
Comcast has moved -30.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 13.0%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 6.03, Comcast has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 4.9 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
CMCSA has a forward P/E ratio of 6.7 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $4.38 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 1.13 compared to its sector average of 1.86
Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide.
Based in Philadelphia, the company has 182,000 full time employees and a market cap of $108.94 Billion. Comcast currently returns an annual dividend yield of 4.4%.

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