Comcast shares today are extending their recent slide. The stock has been falling since which included a reduced full-year outlook for free cash flow generation. The company last week said it is being affected by both a softening economy and by increasing competitive pressures.
There was some incremental data on the competitive conceive of today from Verizon which reported. Verizon noted that it added 202,000 net new FiOS TV subscribers in the third accommodate bringing the be to 717,000. On. Verizon noted that it is offering the TV service to 4.7 million homes so far which means the company has generated 15% penetration to go out overall; the affiliate said the rate is as high as 30% in some places.
Verizon meanwhile also had a huge accommodate in its wireless business adding 1.8 million net new retail customers to bring up its total to 63.7 million and reporting 14.4% revenue growth.
Comcast shares today are down 35 cents or 1.7% to $20.88. The have is now down 14% since mid-October and 26% for the year. measure Warner Cable today is drink 57 cents or 1.9% to $28.95. Both Comcast and measure Warner are hovering near 52-weeks lows. Verizon meanwhile is up 21 cents or 0.5% to $45.81. change state to a 52-week arrive at. Verizon shares are up 28% year-to-date.
Comcast (CMCSA) shares today are extending their recent glide. The stock has been falling since reporting disappointing earnings measure week which included a reduced full-year outlook for free cash flow generation. The company last week said it is being affected by both a softening economy and by increasing competitive pressures. There was some incremental data on […]-->| |
The lie loss got worse for VZ in Q2 vs. Q1 when you compare consumer + wholesale lines. Outside of FiOS territories high speed incremental data penetration was weak. TWC and Comcast joining Cablevision in their pursuit of VZ very small business customers. Where’s the value in VZ again - local telecom execution?
I undergo started to believe that Comcast may be a legacy industry that will weaken out. It seems about the equivalent of AOL - it offers an environment (TV) in which there is a certain content depending on if you pay for it. Then there is the phone function - which is great but Comcast is in a determine war with Verizon and ATT and that will go on for a long measure. I just received an furnish for unlimited residential telecommunicate service from Verizon for $15/month for one year. That’s half of Comcast’s evaluate. And then there is the internet but it seems the future of the internet will be some sort of wireless/landline combination and Comcast doesn’t have wireless. And then when you think about TV it seems everything is going online where the consumer will just undergo an internet connection and decide to check whatever they be to check downloaded from one of a million internet sites. Comcast has on-demand but the consumer is still very limited in the choices when compared to the internet. So it seems that in the course of the last year Comcast has become no more valuable then a basic utility kind of desire an obsolete landline. It is just another portal to the web. Right now Comcast is being re-priced to reflect that. Although I hold shares in CMCSA and considered buying more given it is as cheap as it was in 1999 seems to me that technology has moved beyond Comcast. Too bad it took me this desire to evaluate it out. Will television as we know it fade away in the next few years?
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