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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 declining linear revenue, retains Peacock and broadband, creates **$30B** acquirer with European M&A currency.
8.2%
in pre-market trading to
$44.80
before the open
32 million
broadband subscribers
$7 billion
in revenue over the trailing twelve months but face…
Comcast announced Monday it will separate NBCUniversal's cable networks and European pay-TV arm Sky into a new publicly traded company, sending the parent equity up 8.2% in pre-market trading to $44.80 before the open. The spinoff, structured as a tax-free distribution to existing shareholders, isolates declining linear assets while keeping Peacock streaming, NBC broadcast, Bravo, and the Universal film studio inside the Comcast perimeter alongside its 32 million broadband subscribers.
The new entity will house USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, E!, Syfy, Golf Channel, and Oxygen — cable properties that generated $7 billion in revenue over the trailing twelve months but face accelerating cord-cutting. Sky, acquired for $39 billion in 2018, adds 20 million European subscribers and its own direct-to-consumer distribution in the UK, Germany, and Italy. Management projects the spun company will carry roughly $30 billion in enterprise value at separation, expected to close in twelve months pending regulatory clearance and an IRS private letter ruling on tax treatment. Comcast will retain a controlling voting stake through a dual-class structure for the first eighteen months, then convert to a standard single-class listing.
The move crystallizes a structural bet: that pay-TV and legacy cable can extract more value as a standalone entity with its own balance sheet and M&A currency, while Comcast itself becomes a pure connectivity and tentpole content play. Peacock, which burned $2.8 billion last year chasing 33 million subscribers, stays with the broadband infrastructure that can bundle it at near-zero marginal cost. The separation also clears Comcast to reinvest capital into network upgrades without subsidizing a shrinking linear TV business — a dynamic that has kept the parent multiple compressed below cable peers at 9.1x forward EBITDA. Allocators had been pricing in a 15-18% structural discount due to the NBC drag; that gap began closing the moment the 8-K hit the wire.
The spinoff also sets up the new entity as a consolidator. With its own stock currency and no Comcast parent approval requirements after eighteen months, the spun company can pursue roll-ups of other stranded linear assets — Warner Bros. Discovery's cable portfolio, Paramount's non-CBS networks, or regional sports networks still trapped inside bankrupt Diamond Sports. Sky's European footprint gives it a natural acquirer profile for any distressed pay-TV operator in the UK or Germany, where regulatory runway for M&A has widened since 2022. The structure also allows tax-free monetization if a private equity buyer surfaces within two years under Section 355(e) safe harbor rules, a detail that will draw immediate attention from Apollo, KKR, and the Redstone family office.
Operators should track three items in the next sixty days: the S-1 filing, which will disclose the exact debt load and intercompany agreements; management appointments for the new entity, particularly CFO and head of strategy; and any IRS correspondence regarding the private letter ruling, which can derail if Comcast's remaining business is deemed too dissimilar under Section 355(b) active trade tests. The spinoff also requires Comcast bondholders to consent if any debt gets reallocated, a technical hurdle that has killed similar structures in the past.
Sky's inclusion was the detail that moved the stock. Without it, this was a typical cable network dump — with it, Comcast just created a $30 billion global pay-TV entity with its own growth vector and currency for European M&A, all while keeping the only streaming asset that matters and the broadband moat that funds it.
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For the principal
Watch for S-1 debt disclosures and any consent requirements from Comcast bondholders within sixty days before committing capital.
For the operator
New entity becomes immediate consolidator candidate for stranded linear assets; track management appointments and IRS ruling timeline for timing.
For the house
Long the spun stub on distribution, short Warner Bros Discovery cable multiples; pair trade closes when debt structure clarity arrives.
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