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Comcast$CMCSA · filed: saw revenue fall 0.0% in FY2025 to $123.7BNew shipTrillion Score 482Fall Risk LowNext year $112.3B–$128.4B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Comcast filed
Saw revenue fall 0.0% in FY2025 to $123.7 billion, operating margin 16.7% against a 5.8% median for cable & other pay television services, equity 35.5% of assets, and dividend per share up 10 years running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Comcast’s card. New ship: no warning signs. Trillion Score 482, #9 of 12 in its field; Fall Risk Low (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $112.3B and $128.4B, an 80% range sealed on 26 Sept 2026 · receipt #81b903 · graded in public by the revenue in Comcast’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Comcast sheds streaming losses, refocuses on **$64bn** broadband infrastructure with **41%** margins while NBCUniversal hunts consolidation.
$12bn
annual revenue broadcast and streaming assets from the
$32bn
broadband infrastructure that now defines the parent
$46.20
before settling at
$44.85
by mid-morning
Comcast announced Monday it will spin NBCUniversal into a standalone public company, separating its $12bn annual revenue broadcast and streaming assets from the $32bn broadband infrastructure that now defines the parent. The transaction requires regulatory approval and targets completion within twelve months. Pre-market trading pushed Comcast shares up 6.8% to $46.20 before settling at $44.85 by mid-morning.
The new NBCUniversal will consolidate the broadcast network, Peacock streaming service, Universal film studio, and theme parks under independent management. Comcast retains its residential broadband business, which now serves 32.1 million subscribers and generates $64bn in annual revenue at 41% EBITDA margins. The parent also keeps its 39% stake in Hulu, purchased from Disney for $8.6bn in November 2023, which remains outside the spinoff perimeter. Sky, the European pay-TV operation acquired in 2018 for $39bn, stays with Comcast.
The structure mirrors the AT&T-WarnerMedia separation completed in April 2022, which created a $43bn standalone Warner Bros Discovery and returned AT&T to pure-play telecommunications. That transaction unlocked $8.2bn in net debt reduction for AT&T within eighteen months. Comcast's move acknowledges similar pressure: the company carries $91bn in total debt, with $6.4bn maturing in the next twelve months. Broadband subscriber growth has slowed to 1.1% year-over-year, down from 4.3% in 2021, while Peacock burns approximately $2.8bn annually to maintain its 31 million paid subscribers.
The timing follows Disney's November 2023 decision to take full control of Hulu and fold it into its direct-to-consumer strategy. That move left NBCUniversal without a clear streaming partnership path and exposed Peacock's standalone profitability gap. The separation allows NBCUniversal to pursue its own consolidation opportunities, most obviously with Paramount Global, which has traded at 4.2x forward EBITDA since Skydance Media's $8bn acquisition proposal stalled in June. A combined NBCUniversal-Paramount would control 22% of US primetime viewership and $31bn in annual content production spend.
Operators should track three events: FCC and DOJ antitrust review filings due within sixty days, NBCUniversal's selection of standalone debt underwriters by March, and any Paramount engagement before the July proxy season. Comcast will also need to secure tax-free treatment from the IRS, which requires NBCUniversal shares to be distributed pro-rata to existing Comcast shareholders rather than sold in a taxable transaction. The twelve-month timeline assumes uncomplicated regulatory clearance; the AT&T-WarnerMedia separation took fourteen months from announcement to close.
Comcast's broadband business now trades at 8.1x forward EBITDA after the spinoff announcement, in line with Charter Communications at 8.3x but below the 9.7x cable infrastructure median. NBCUniversal as a standalone entity would likely price near Warner Bros Discovery's 6.9x multiple, implying a $48bn initial market capitalization. That puts the implied value of the separated businesses 11% above Comcast's pre-announcement enterprise value of $261bn, the gap that overnight buyers recognized.
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For the operator
Separated NBCUniversal becomes acquirable at 6.9x EBITDA. Paramount combination would create $31bn content scale player.
For the house
Long Comcast equity through separation. Short Warner Bros Discovery relative value into NBCUniversal debut, convergence trade.
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