Analyzing Stock On Your Own: Comcast Corp (NASDAQ: CMCSA)

Comcast Corp (NASDAQ:CMCSA) does about 21.39M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 23127068 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 156.37B USD. Its current market price is $39.37, marking a decrease of -1.92% compared to the previous close of $40.14. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $47.46 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $36.38.

Comcast Corp (CMCSA) has a 20-day trading average at $41.84 and the current price is -17.04% off the 52-week high compared with 8.20% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $42.33 and its 200-day simple moving average is $43.39. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.70%, which decreases to 1.65% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 28.38 to suggest the stock is oversold.

The consensus objective for the share price is $50.38, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 21.85% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 09, 2024 when Exane BNP Paribas downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $45. Redburn Atlantic also downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Buy on February 15, 2024 at a price target of $50-$44. Pivotal Research Group reiterated its price target at $55-$58.

Comcast Corp (CMCSA) stock is down -3.74% over the week and -9.03% over the past month. Its price is -10.22% year-to-date and 4.60% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 21.85 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 8.38% and return on equity of 18.81%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 10.62 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 8.57. The beta has a value of 0.97. Price to book ratio is 1.89 and price to sales ratio is 1.29.