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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 isolates **$7B** in linear decay, keeps parks and Peacock—first major split pricing legacy media at terminal multiples.
$7 billion
in enterprise value
4.2%
in pre-market trading to
$43.80
the strongest move since the September earnings beat
23 million
subscribers across the UK
Comcast filed Monday to spin NBCUniversal into a standalone entity that will include Sky, its European pay-TV and broadband operation, creating a combined linear-and-international vehicle worth an estimated $7 billion in enterprise value. Shares rose 4.2% in pre-market trading to $43.80, the strongest move since the September earnings beat.
The new company will house NBCUniversal's cable networks—USA, CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo—alongside Sky's 23 million subscribers across the UK, Germany, and Italy. Comcast retains the NBC broadcast network, Peacock streaming, Universal Studios, and the theme parks. The separation isolates declining linear revenue—cable network ad sales fell 11% year-over-year in Q3—while keeping the capital-intensive streaming buildout and high-margin parks on the parent entity. Comcast will distribute shares to existing holders on a tax-free basis; no cash changes hands.
What matters is the valuation arbitrage Comcast is engineering. The market prices cable networks at roughly 4x trailing EBITDA, while theme parks and streaming platforms with subscriber momentum command 12x or higher. By cleaving the portfolio, Comcast allows each asset class to trade at its natural multiple rather than blending down in a conglomerate discount. Sky, despite stagnant subscriber growth in Europe, generates $1.9 billion in annual free cash flow and owns sports rights that remain difficult to replicate—English Premier League, Bundesliga, Formula One. The spinco will carry approximately $20 billion in net debt, manageable against a combined EBITDA base near $5 billion.
For allocators, this is a harbinger. Comcast is the first major U.S. media conglomerate to formally separate legacy linear from growth assets post-Peak TV collapse. Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global both carry similar structural burdens—declining cable networks subsidizing money-losing streaming ventures—but neither has executed a clean split. Comcast's move suggests management believes the linear decline is now steep enough that bundling it with growth engines destroys more value than it creates. The decision to keep Peacock with the parent, despite its $565 million Q3 loss, signals confidence that streaming losses will narrow faster than cable networks can stabilize.
Operators should track three markers over the next 90 days. First, whether Comcast negotiates affiliate fee resets with major distributors before the spin closes; those agreements will define the spinco's revenue floor. Second, how Sky's broadband ARPU trends in Q4 earnings—wireless and fiber revenue in Europe grew 8% last quarter, a counterweight to pay-TV churn. Third, whether private equity firms or international telcos surface as potential acquirers of the spinco; a $7 billion enterprise value sits at the upper edge of single-check PE capacity but well within range for a consortium or a strategic buyer like Deutsche Telekom.
The spin filing lands the same week Disney reports earnings with questions about ESPN's standalone future and Netflix posts its slowest quarter of subscriber additions in two years. Comcast is not reacting to this quarter. It is pricing in 2027.
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Sky's $1.9B free cash flow funds European fiber build; spinco becomes yield vehicle or privatization candidate within eighteen months.
For the operator
Track affiliate fee negotiations pre-close and Sky broadband ARPU in Q4; both determine if spinco trades at 4x or 6x EBITDA.
For the house
Huang Goodman holds small Comcast equity position; evaluating post-spin arbitrage if spinco trades below 3.5x with PE interest confirmed.
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