CMCSA - Comcast Corporation
39.74 0.00 (0.00%)
After hours: 5:20PM EDT
| Previous Close | 40.07 |
| Open | 40.13 |
| Bid | 39.54 x 1200 |
| Ask | 39.80 x 3100 |
| Day's Range | 39.52 - 40.24 |
| 52 Week Range | 31.71 - 47.74 |
| Volume | 12,168,166 |
| Avg. Volume | 21,380,680 |
| Market Cap | 181.38B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 0.98 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 15.77 |
| EPS (TTM) | 2.52 |
| Earnings Date | Jul. 30, 2020 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 0.92 (2.30%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Jun. 30, 2020 |
| 1y Target Est | 45.23 |
- Motley Fool
5 Stocks That Will Emerge Stronger From the "Great Redundancy Crisis"
As the global economy tries to mount a recovery from the adverse effects created by the coronavirus pandemic, now might be a good time to take a moment to consider the "great redundancy crisis." Mobility has matured, cloud computing services are prolific, and cybersecurity support for a dispersed workforce has advanced considerably.
- Zacks
ViacomCBS (VIAC) Expands Pluto TV's Free Ad-Supported Library
ViacomCBS (VIAC) adds 40 iconic and award-winning CBS and Comedy Central shows to Pluto TV to attract news users to its free ad-supported streaming service.
- Motley Fool
Disney+ Is the New HBO
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) recently announced a new promotion offering its higher-tier FiOS internet customers up to 12 months of Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Hulu for free. AT&T (NYSE: T) even explicitly told investors part of its go-to-market strategy for HBO Max is partnering with internet providers to bundle the streaming service with home internet. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is trying to partner with other pay-TV providers to distribute Peacock, but Comcast's own internet-only subscribers also get free access.
- Yahoo Finance
Trump is wrong about NASCAR TV ratings
Trump’s tweet about NASCAR TV ratings falling due to the sport's Confederate flag ban is completely false.
- Business Wire
Comcast Opens New Xfinity Store in Spokane Valley and Remodels Retail Location on Division Street
Comcast will open a new Xfinity store in Spokane Valley tomorrow at the Evergreen Crossing Shopping Center and is remodeling its existing retail location in Spokane as part of a more than $4 million brick and mortar retail investment in Washington. The new store is located at 13826 East Indiana Avenue – Ste. 100, Spokane Valley WA 99216, and the existing retail location at 4423 North Division St, Spokane, WA 99207 will be closed for remodeling, July 7 through late summer.
- Motley Fool
ViacomCBS Decides to License Content to Rival Peacock: 3 Takeaways
NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service slated to launch in the middle of this month needs video entertainment content -- ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC) (NASDAQ: VIAC.A) has it. Namely, why is the owner of CBS as well as movie studio Paramount helping NBC and Universal, respectively, establish Peacock when Viacom already operates a similar streaming service called CBS All Access?
- Zacks
Comcast (CMCSA) Peacock Adds Content From ViacomCBS Library
Comcast (CMCSA) owned NBCUniversal signs licensing deal with ViacomCBS to add select Paramount movies and Showtime content on Peacock streaming platform after its launch on Jul 15.
- Motley Fool
How Roku and Other Advertising Technology Companies Are Upending Traditional TV
In late February, I wrote an article that suggested that Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) -- parent to NBCUniversal and ultimate owner of new streaming service called Peacock -- was in a league of its own in terms of next-generation advertising technology. Just within the past few days, Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU), Tubi, and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) division Hulu all unveiled new technologies that will make the most of their ad-supported streaming platforms.
- Reuters
CORRECTED-NBCU's Peacock strikes deal with ViacomCBS to stream 'The Godfather' and others
Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal has struck a deal with ViacomCBS Inc to bring "The Godfather" trilogy, "Undercover Boss" and other hit franchises to the upcoming Peacock streaming video platform, the companies announced on Wednesday. Peacock, set to launch nationally on July 15 on mobile devices, Web and connected television platforms, will compete against Netflix Inc, Amazon.com Inc Prime Video, Walt Disney Co's Disney+, Hulu, and AT&T Inc's HBO Max in the fight for paying subscribers.
- Motley Fool
NBCUniversal's Streaming Service Peacock Will Launch With Some ViacomCBS Content
Competing studios and media owners are starting to cooperate on a limited basis in order to maximize revenue.
- Zacks
Why the Earnings Surprise Streak Could Continue for Comcast (CMCSA)
Comcast (CMCSA) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.
- Yahoo Finance Video
Google’s YouTube TV raises prices
Yahoo Finance’s Heidi Chung breaks down the latest on the streaming wars and Google's recent news that it would raise prices for its TV services to $64 from $50 dollars a month.
- Bloomberg
Facebook Boycott Adds to an Already Bleak Year for Advertising
(Bloomberg) -- Long before an uproar over online hate speech prompted hundreds of marketers to cut summer social media budgets, 2020 was turning out to be a dismal year for the global advertising industry.Total ad spending will fall 12% this year, compared with a 6.2% gain in 2019, according to GroupM, a division of advertising giant WPP Plc. That’s the biggest contraction in at least a decade. As the global pandemic spread around the world and consumer spending slowed to a trickle, many corporations targeted marketing as a fast, early way to cut costs.One ad agency executive said third-quarter buying would be down 20% to 30%. New deals were being struck with “force majeure” clauses that would allow advertisers to pull out if a second wave of the virus caused new shutdowns, said the executive, who requested anonymity discussing internal financial figures. In the U.S., hopes that the virus would slow by summer are fading as states that had begun opening up move to shut down again because of a jump in cases.Against this backdrop, advertisers are making another shift. Big companies around the world have said they’ll pause spending on social media, several of them singling out Facebook Inc., because they don’t want marketing messages appearing alongside the vitriol and disinformation. Many are heeding the call from a consortium of civil rights and other advocacy groups, including Color of Change and the Anti-Defamation League, to stop spending on Facebook for July to protest the company’s failure to police harmful content.The pause creates a way for many companies to take a public stance against hate while at the same time providing a concrete reason to trim marketing budgets or, in some cases, experiment with alternatives to traditional social media, such as Amazon.com Inc. or ByteDance’s TikTok. “While many brands were planning on pulling back ad spend anyways, a portion of Facebook-allocated dollars may end up on Snapchat, Pinterest, Amazon, Walmart, etc.,” Mark Shmulik, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote in a recent research note.Ad budgets are an indicator of corporate sentiment toward the world economy. Confidence and growth leads to bigger budgets and higher ad prices. Ad spending cratered in March and April as businesses shut and people stayed home to comply with lockdown orders.In interviews earlier in the year, ad execs were mostly hopeful that the pain would end once quarantines lifted and the economy rebounded. But behind the scenes, the picture was more bleak. Ad agencies, which choose how and when to spend the money companies entrust to them, have cut thousands of jobs. Ad executives who had spent money on spots meant to run during now-canceled sports events tried to recoup the money and find new outlets for it, according to people interviewed by Bloomberg who asked not to be identified discussing private negotiations.Despite the larger advertising pullback, a pause for social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter Inc. and YouTube creates an opening for ad upstarts on the digital side. Packaged foods company Conagra Brands Inc. pulled Facebook advertisements, redirecting the money to search and e-commerce ads, a category most likely to benefit online rivals Google and Amazon.Ben & Jerry’s, a division of Unilever, was one of the early brands to join the StopHateForProfit campaign. “The marketing dollars that would have been spent on Facebook will be spent on other channels, including possibly some Black-owned media outlets,” said Chris Miller, the activism manager at Ben & Jerry’s.Even if the boycotts gain momentum and persist for more than a month, Google and Facebook are still likely to benefit in the long-term from the disruption wrought by the pandemic. That’s because these companies offer advertisers the most flexible and direct way to reach consumers; spending can be paused or ramped up on a moment’s notice. The tech giants also benefit from the millions of small businesses that rely heavily on them for day-to-day business and don’t necessarily need to take a public stand on moral issues. “They may grab an even greater market share post COVID-19 than the strong gains we are currently projecting,” Michael Nathanson, an analyst at MoffettNathanson LLC, said of Facebook and Google.The more traditional parts of the ad ecosystem, which still account for around half of advertising spending, are in a riskier position.For the TV industry, the advertising outlook for the rest of 2020 will depend on two still-unanswered questions. One is how much the pandemic-driven recession will accelerate cable-TV cord-cutting. With unemployment high, more people are expected to cancel their TV subscriptions as they tighten their household budgets. That would hurt viewership and the advertising dollars that go with it. The bigger audiences as a result of people being confined to their homes has already started to fall for just about all programming except news as more people venture outdoors again.The other big question is the return of sports. As long as professional and college football starts up again this fall, media companies like Fox Corp., Comcast Corp., Walt Disney Co. and ViacomCBS will likely see a rebound in advertising revenue, analysts say. Brands spent over $4 billion on TV commercials during NFL games last year.Still, some big TV advertisers could be less willing to jump back this year at all. Carmakers like General Motors and Ford, for instance, have been among the top buyers of TV commercials. The global pandemic has disrupted their supply chains and raised doubts about consumers making big purchases like cars.Media companies and TV networks are now under pressure to make their contracts more flexible. TV networks typically prevent advertisers from pulling all of their money out on short notice. That frustrated many advertisers this spring when the pandemic first kicked off the recession. Now, advertisers are pushing for the right to pull more of their money out of a TV network with fewer days notice in case the coronavirus worsens the economic picture. They will, however, likely pay a higher price for that flexibility, according to one TV executive.That could send them back to the digital platforms, regardless of all the commitments to boycott Facebook.“Brands can stop TV ads but they can’t stop things being on social,” said Arron Shepherd, co-founder of global social media and influencer marketing agency Goat.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
- Yahoo Finance Video
Fed kicking off primary market corporate credit facility
On Monday, the Federal Reserve made the decision to officially open the doors to the primary market corporate credit facility. Yahoo Finance's Brian Cheung joins The Ticker to discuss.
- Reuters
U.S. senators urge funding for internet access during pandemic
Democratic U.S. senators on Monday were to introduce legislation to ensure Americans who have suffered economic hardships due to the coronavirus pandemic have access to broadband internet. The bill, which was seen by Reuters and will be made public later on Monday, would provide free or low-cost broadband service to low-income families or those who have been recently laid off or furloughed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It would boost an existing Federal Communications Commission Lifeline subsidy program to help millions more low-income Americans qualify, with more than 20 million Americans out of work.
- Reuters
Golf-FOX gives up U.S. Open rights to NBC
A crowded sports schedule caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted FOX to choose the NFL and MLB over the U.S. Open, leading the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) to end its 12-year deal with the broadcaster and transfer it to NBC Universal. The U.S. Open originally scheduled for June was moved to September due to the new coronavirus outbreak, creating a logjam for FOX which also has broadcast rights for ratings behemoth the NFL as well as college football and Major League Baseball.
- Yahoo Finance
This demographic tends to rely on news to make money decisions
Older Americans rely more heavily on news and current events to make financial decisions than the younger generation, according to a new Yahoo Finance-Harris poll.
- Business Wire
Comcast’s Xfinity Internet Service Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program, Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements That Protect Customer Privacy
Comcast is the first ISP to provide Firefox users with private and secure encrypted DNS services through Mozilla's Trusted Recursive Resolver Program
- Zacks
Comcast (CMCSA) Stock Moves -1.63%: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Comcast (CMCSA) closed at $38.56, marking a -1.63% move from the previous day.
- Zacks
Comcast's Peacock-Google Platform Launch Slated for July
Comcast (CMCSA)-owned NBCUniversal's distribution deal to launch Peacock streaming service on Google's platforms starting Jul 15 is likely to draw more audience on strong content portfolio.
- Reuters
ViacomCBS' new 'SpongeBob' movie will skip theaters to stream on home screens
ViacomCBS Inc said on Monday the animated family film "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run" will debut digitally in the United States via premium video-on-demand (VOD) in early 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps movie theaters shut. After the premium on-demand viewing window closes, the film will move exclusively to CBS All Access, ViacomCBS' subscription VOD and live-streaming service, the company said in a statement. Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast Corp -owned NBCUniversal, said in March it would make its movies available at home on the same day they are released in theaters worldwide, beginning with the DreamWorks Animation film "Trolls World Tour".
- Business Wire
Spotify Launches on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex
Spotify begins its launch on Xfinity X1 and Flex today; giving millions of customers access to the music streaming service directly on the TV
- Reuters
Soccer-Bundesliga set to get lower price for domestic TV rights
Germany's Bundesliga will on Monday award domestic broadcast rights for the four seasons from 2021-22, with the value likely to decline from the previous agreement. Pay TV broadcaster Sky, owned by U.S. group Comcast Corp , is expected to remain the main client, with sports streaming service DAZN also picking up the rights to a large number of matches, according to sources close to the matter. Amazon, which has streamed some Bundesliga matches after the season resumed behind closed doors, is not believed to have played a major role in the bidding.
- Bloomberg
Liverpool Is Back, But English Soccer May Have Peaked
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Soccer is back. The stadiums might be empty, the training protocols strict and the virus testing frequent, but after a three-month absence, England’s Premier League has returned. The money, however, has not.Empty grounds mean no ticket sales. More significant is the broadcast revenue, which in English football’s top division represents two-thirds of club income. While bored Brits may have been desperate for a televised dose of Liverpool versus Everton on Sunday night — crowd or no crowd — the Covid-19 pandemic has pretty much ended hopes for a new spurt of growth in the value of broadcast rights. (That the Liverpool derby is being shown free-to-air may in itself be a sign of different times.) The TV money had already shown signs of plateauing before the coronavirus. Since its inception in 1992, the Premier League’s broadcast income has soared by more than 60 times to 3 billion pounds ($3.7 billion) a season. But in the most recent broadcasting deal for the 2019 to 2022 seasons, the price of domestic rights fell for the first time in 15 years, offset only by an increase in the value of overseas rights.Talks for the next three-year domestic TV package, which will run from 2022 to 2025, will start in the next few months ahead of an auction next year. Clubs had been hoping that well-capitalized online streaming companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Len Blavatnik’s DAZN would push up the price by bidding against the incumbents, Comcast Corp.’s Sky unit and BT Group Plc.The virus has put paid to those dreams. Sports-specific online streaming services have been hit hard during the pandemic. While pay-TV stations often tie their customers into long contracts, internet streamers operate on a month-to-month basis, so they endure far higher customer losses when there’s no sport to be shown. DAZN, a British company that bills itself as the Netflix of sport, has been scrambling to secure new funding after committing billions of dollars on rights.Last time around, the Premier League succeeded in selling two small packages of games to Amazon. The idea was to whet the e-commerce giant’s appetite by demonstrating how soccer could drive new subscriptions to its Amazon Prime service. Ostensibly, that effort seems to have been a success. Amazon said it signed up millions of new subscribers after the games it showed in December.But that may not be enough to convince Jeff Bezos’s company to splash out billions of dollars on the major packages of English games (Amazon spends just 90 million pounds per year on its current rights). That’s because Premier League football is more of a customer acquisition tool for Amazon than one of retention: It convinces people to sign up for Prime, and the hope is that they stick around once they see the corollary benefits like cheap deliveries of Amazon goods and plentiful television box sets and films.Bezos doesn’t really need a package of games that stretches across a whole season, he just needs enough to convince people to try Prime once. So while Amazon might come back for another package next year, it’s likely to be another small one. The possibility of a rival tech player entering the market — Netflix Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple or Alphabet Inc.’s Google – appears minimal. With each game costing 9 million pounds to show, they see more value investing in content with a longer shelf life. Episodes of Netflix's The Crown will attract audiences for years, in a way that Wednesday's 0-0 draw between Aston Villa and Sheffield United will not.The Premier League’s 20 teams will probably see their cumulative revenue drop by 17% this year to 4.3 billion pounds, Deloitte estimates. About 500 million pounds of that is lost sales, so a timeout might be called on mega-transfer fees and mega-wages. The Premier League may have already passed its peak.This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Alex Webb is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe's technology, media and communications industries. He previously covered Apple and other technology companies for Bloomberg News in San Francisco.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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Covid-19 Masks Aren’t a Political Statement
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- AMC Entertainment Inc., the largest cinema operator in the U.S. and Europe, initially decided that it wouldn’t require guests to wear masks at its theaters when they reopen, and for an especially troubling reason: “We did not want to be drawn into a political controversy,” CEO Adam Aron said in an interview this week with Variety. But wearing a mask isn’t a political statement, and it’s dangerous for corporate brands to suggest it is.AMC reversed course on Friday afternoon with a statement saying that after “an intense and immediate outcry from our customers” it will now “require that all AMC guests nationwide wear masks as they enter and enjoy movies at our theatres.” In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, mixed messages from government leaders caused confusion around how to keep people safe, with masks thought to be unnecessary at one point. (Plus, there were concerns of creating shortages for hospital workers, which happened anyway). But given what health experts have since learned about how this particular virus infects, there is little doubt now that face coverings help minimize the spread. Already, as many as 450,000 Covid-19 cases may have been prevented because of state-mandated face masks in public settings, according to a study by Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed health care journal.Health experts have determined that masks are best worn in crowded places where you’ll be for a long stretch of time, especially if it’s an enclosed area. The close quarters of a movie theater — along with airplanes, restaurants, subway cars and theme parks — are a perfect example. Still, as of Friday afternoon, AMC's rivals, Cineworld Group Plc’s Regal Cinemas and Cinemark Holdings Inc., weren't requiring masks unless a certain state or county does. Places with loud talking or singing can be super-spreaders as well. These factors are all why Walt Disney Co. and Comcast Corp.’s Universal are requiring face coverings at their parks, as are airlines including American and Delta for passengers and crew, even if reports of full flights partially negate those efforts. Face coverings are also more effective if everyone wears them; the more stylish cloth masks being sold by retail chains and Etsy artisans may not provide the same level of protection as professional-grade filtering respirators, but if everyone is wearing some type of face covering, the risk of transmission is probably low.While AMC was already requiring masks for its employees, “We thought it might be counterproductive if we forced mask wearing on those people who believe strongly that it is not necessary,” Aron said in the Variety article Thursday. “I will certainly be wearing a mask and leading by example.” The problem with this line of thinking is that it falsely suggests wearing a mask is a personal choice deeply rooted in one’s beliefs. That makes it even more difficult for any businesses to enforce without facing push-back. As it is, that enforcement will fall to workers — often young people — who may be ill-equipped to handle an uncooperative customer if the rules seem squishy. It’s not like movie theaters and other businesses don’t already have their own rules. Retailers and restaurants generally require shoes and shirts to be worn at all times. And everyone knows that you can’t bring your own food and drinks to the movies or smoke inside. You’re also supposed to silence phones before a film starts. Wearing a mask should be treated as just another point of etiquette. Because aspects of the crisis have already been politicized in some ways, companies are understandably concerned about alienating customers at a time when they’re trying to bring back revenue and traffic. But they also risk making other customers scared to venture out again if it doesn’t feel safe. As Bloomberg Opinion’s Noah Smith wrote this week, there’s good reason to believe that “most of the economic damage from the lockdowns wasn’t due to stay-at-home orders, but because of public fear of the virus.” Credit-card spending continued, he notes. Comments like Aron’s undermine any attempts to require masks, which will likely make it more difficult to both get this pandemic under control and restore the economy. If mask wearing is treated as it should be — a new safety protocol that we just may have to get used to for a while because health experts advise it — then it helps remove any irrational political sting. The virus doesn’t care who you vote for, and wearing a mask certainly doesn’t signal support for one party or another. What it does is to help us all finally get out of the house. At least AMC finally came around.(Updates to add that AMC Theatres is now requiring masks.)This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Tara Lachapelle is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering the business of entertainment and telecommunications, as well as broader deals. She previously wrote an M&A column for Bloomberg News.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
