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Surprise, Comcast still knows how to print money
Comcast came in ahead of Wall Street’s Q1 hopes, posting $0.84 in EPS versus $0.75 expected and $32.31 billion in revenue, up 1.2% year over year. Not exactly a rocket launch, but in cable-and-media land, steady beats are the equivalent of a standing ovation.
The dividend did its thing
The company also declared a quarterly dividend of $0.33, which works out to an annualized yield around 4.7%. If you’re an investor hunting for cash return instead of moonshot vibes, that’s the sort of payout that keeps Comcast on your watchlist even when the stock isn’t exactly TikTok-famous.
Cheap, or just unloved?
At a P/E of 5.22 and a market cap near $100.9 billion, Comcast is trading like the market has already filed it under “mature, please do not disturb.” That can be a bargain if earnings stay firm — or a value trap if growth keeps moving at the speed of dial-up internet.
The noise in the background
The article also mentions CEO Michael Cavanagh sold 57,947 shares in February, but that’s old news relative to the earnings print and feels more like market wallpaper than the main event. Analysts still sit at Hold with a $34.81 target, which basically says: nice quarter, but nobody’s rushing to the confetti cannon.
Big picture: Comcast is still very much a cash-flow machine, and this quarter gives income investors another reason to keep watching. For everyone else, the question is whether “cheap” is the beginning of a rerating story — or just the market being polite about slow growth.