CMCSAComcast
We are a global media and technology company that reaches customers, viewers and guests worldwide through the connectivity and platforms services we provide and the content and experiences we create. 10-K, Item 1
- Employees
- 179,000
- Headquarters
- Philadelphia, PA
- CEO
- Brian L. Roberts
- Next results
- around Jan 28, 2027
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGARShares offered
Since Nov 11, 2023: 1 registration of shares for a merger, units or notes, 1 shelf registration.
- Aug 7, 2026 Shares for a merger, units or notes 424B3
- Feb 28, 2025 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“PROSPECTUS Offer to Exchange Up to $1,172,013,000 aggregate principal amount of new 5.168% Notes due 2037 registered under the Securities Act of 1933, for any and all outstanding unregistered 5.168% Notes due 2037 Comcast Corporation (“Comcast”) is offering to exchange: new registered 5.168% Notes due 2037 (the “Exchange Notes”) for its outstanding unregistered 5.168% Notes due 2037 (the “Original Notes”).”
424B3, Aug 7, 2026 ↗
Diluted shares: 3.71B in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -5.1%2024 -5.8%2023 -6.4%2022 -4.8%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
FY2025, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.
Came from
| Operating cash flow | $33.6B |
| Debt raised | $3.5B |
Went to
| Capital spending | $11.8B |
| Acquisitions | $1.3B |
| Buybacks | $7.2B |
| Dividends | $4.9B |
| Debt repaid | $5.7B |
| Added to cash | $3.2B |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$3.1B |
Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.
Each CEO's years
The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years. Facts, not a grade.
Mr. Roberts
- Operating cash flow
- $145.4B
- Capital spending
- $56.0B
- Acquisitions
- $2.8B
- Buybacks
- $45.5B
- Dividends
- $23.7B
- Stock-based pay
- $6.5B
- Diluted shares since FY2020
- -19.8%
- Revenue since FY2020
- +19%
- Debt since FY2020
- -$4.8B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $170.5M
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $7.2B | $4.9B | $1.3B | - | 3.71B |
| 2024-12-31 | $9.1B | $4.8B | $1.3B | - | 3.91B |
| 2023-12-31 | $11.3B | $4.8B | $1.2B | - | 4.15B |
| 2022-12-31 | $13.3B | $4.7B | $1.3B | - | 4.43B |
| 2021-12-31 | $4.7B | $4.5B | $1.3B | - | 4.65B |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividends; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
Price paid per share
What CMCSA paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year to | Shares bought | Spent | Average price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-12-31 | 232.00M | $7.2B | $30.95 | |
| 2014-12-31 | 162.00M | $4.3B | $26.24 | |
| 2013-12-31 | 98.00M | $2.0B | $20.41 | |
| 2012-12-31 | 192.00M | $3.0B | $15.62 | |
| 2011-12-31 | 190.00M | $2.1B | $11.27 | |
| 2010-12-31 | 140.00M | $1.2B | $8.57 | |
| 2009-12-31 | 100.00M | $765.0M | $7.65 | |
| 2008-12-31 | 282.00M | $2.8B | $9.93 |
Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out. The latest year with both numbers tagged is 2015.
Work on CMCSA in a spreadsheet:
Excel workbook (a sheet per section, ten years by column, charts, links to the filings) ·
CSV.
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