About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) is a Communication Services company in the Cable & Other Pay Television Services industry with a market capitalisation of $80.7B. The stock trades at 7.29x trailing earnings and yields 5.8%.
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Cable & Other Pay Television Services
- Market cap
- $80.7B
- P/E ratio
- 7.29
- Forward P/E
- 6.35
- EPS (TTM)
- $3.12
- Revenue (TTM)
- $124.9B
- Free cash flow
- $12.7B
- Profit margin
- 9.0%
- Dividend yield
- 5.8%
- Beta
- 0.66
- Shares outstanding
- 3.5B
Financial health: Weak4.4/10
3 strengths, 4 concerns. Weakest points: current ratio, revenue growth, earnings growth and 1 more.
- Current ratio: 0.88 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.88x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 11.5% (Watch, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 11.5% on shareholder equity, short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 69.4% (Strong, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 69.4% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, comfortably past the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 9.0% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 9.0% of revenue into profit, short of the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $21.9B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $21.9B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: -1.2% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed -1.2% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: -66.8% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed -66.8% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 142.98 (Concern, benchmark < 1) — At 142.98, the price looks expensive relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 42.3% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 42.3% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.