About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) is a Communication Services company in the Cable & Other Pay Television Services industry with a market capitalisation of $96.7B. The stock trades at 8.77x trailing earnings and yields 4.79%.
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Cable & Other Pay Television Services
- Market cap
- $96.7B
- P/E ratio
- 8.77
- EPS (TTM)
- $5.39
- Revenue (TTM)
- $123.7B
- Free cash flow
- $21.9B
- Profit margin
- 16.2%
- Dividend yield
- 4.79%
- Shares outstanding
- 2.1B
Financial health: Strong7.5/10
6 strengths, 2 concerns. Weakest points: current ratio, revenue growth.
- 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: 20.6% (Strong, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 20.6% on shareholder equity, comfortably past 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: 16.2% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 16.2% of revenue into profit, comfortably past 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: -0.0% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed -0.0% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 23.5% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 23.5% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Payout ratio: 24.5% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 24.5% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.