Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that owns 8 consumer brands across 2 categories, and has 3 recorded transactions.[1][2]
Comcast began in 1963 with a small cable system in Mississippi and grew into the largest cable operator in the United States. Its 2011 purchase of NBCUniversal made a distribution company into a studio owner, and Sky added most of European pay television in 2018.
Read from Comcast's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
This non-dilutable voting power is subject to proportional decrease to the extent the number of shares of Class B common stock is reduced below 9,444,375, which was the number of shares of Class B common stock outstanding on the date of our 2002 acquisition of AT&T Corp.'s cable business, subject to adjustment in specified situations.
In June 2025, we sold our interest in Hulu, at which time we recognized the sale of our interest with a pre-tax gain of $9.4 billion (see Note 8).
Headline figures from Comcast's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025.
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $123.7bn | $20.7bn | 16.7% | $20bn | $272.6bn | — | 10-K | |
| $123.7bn | $23.3bn | 18.8% | $16.2bn | $266.2bn | — | 10-K | |
| $121.6bn | $23.3bn | 19.2% | $15.4bn | $264.8bn | — | 10-K | |
| $121.4bn | $14bn | 11.6% | $5.37bn | $257.3bn | — | 10-K | |
| — | $20.8bn | — | $14.2bn | $275.9bn | — | 10-K | |
| — | $17.5bn | — | $10.5bn | $273.9bn | — | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Comcast won Sky in a rare televised auction ordered by the British Takeover Panel, outbidding Twenty-First Century Fox at about £30 billion. It gave Comcast pay television across Britain, Ireland, Germany and Italy in a single step.
Comcast acquired DreamWorks Animation for about $3.8 billion, adding Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon to Universal. The studio had struggled as a standalone public company because a single failed film could ruin a year.
Comcast took majority control of NBCUniversal from General Electric in a transaction valuing the business at about $30 billion, contributing cable channels and $13.75 billion in cash. It turned the largest American cable distributor into a studio owner, and regulators imposed conditions on how it treated rival programmers.
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The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Results of a shareholder vote | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition |
Comcast owns 8 consumer brands tracked here, including Universal Pictures, Universal Destinations & Experiences, Telemundo, Xfinity, Peacock and DreamWorks Animation.
Yes. Comcast is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and was founded in 1963.
Comcast is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as CMCSA on the NASDAQ.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Sky on 9 October 2018.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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