Comcast Earnings Q2 2022

Comcast It reported second-quarter revenue and earnings that beat analyst estimates, but the cable provider didn’t add broadband customers in a quarter for the first time ever.

Comcast’s high-speed Internet customers in the quarter were flat, falling behind the average analyst estimate of 84,000, according to FactSet. Revenue increased 5.1% to $30.02 billion from the previous year, supported by NBCUniversal’s theme park and studio companies. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, increased 10.1% to $9.8 billion.

Comcast shares are down more than 6% in pre-market trading.

Comcast is seeing increased competition for high-speed broadband, its most lucrative product. For more than a decade, the cable industry has dominated the home broadband market, but wireless companies like T-Mobile are now competing by offering 5G home internet products. T-Mobile 560,000 broadband users added in the second quarterwell above the first quarter total of 338,000.

Here are the main numbers:

• Earnings per share: $1.01, averaged against an estimate of 92 cents, according to Refinitiv
• he won: $30.02 billion vs. $29.68 billion estimate, according to Refinitiv
• High Speed ​​Internet Clients: 0 vs. 84,000 net additions, according to the average estimate of analysts surveyed by FactSet.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, in a statement, described the downturn temporarily because macroeconomic conditions such as rising inflation limit the number of new connections for the company. Broadband revenue increased 6.8% year-over-year to $6.1 billion in the second quarter thanks to higher pricing and an increase in resident customers from the previous year.

“We achieved the highest adjusted EBITDA margin ever even as the unique and evolving macroeconomic environment temporarily pressures the volume of new customer contacts,” said Roberts.

Since March 2020, Comcast has added more than 3 million broadband customers.

Studios revenue increased more than 33% to $3 billion, driven by “Jurassic World: Dominion,” which topped $900 million in global box office sales.

The global theme park business continued to recover from last year corona virus disease pandemic Slower. Revenue jumped about 65% to $1.8 billion. Adjusted EBITDA increased 187% to $632 million, the highest EBITDA ratio ever for the second quarter.

Peacock’s paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million after that A profit of 4 million in the last quarter. Comcast said it expects “Jurassic World: Dominion” along with two movies released in theaters in the third quarter — “Minions: The Rise of Gru” and Jordan Peele’s “Nope” — to help boost Peacock’s subscribers when they come to the streaming service. . After their box office windows expire. “Sunday Night Football” and the World Cup, which begins in November. Number 21, Comcast said, should also help add to Peacock’s total subscriber count later this year.

Here’s how Comcast divisions performed for the quarter compared to the previous year:

• Cable Communications contributed $16.6 billion in revenue, up 3.7% year over year
• Media brought in $5.3 billion in revenue, up 3.6%.
• The studios contributed $3 billion in revenue, up 33.3%.
• Theme parks generated $1.8 billion in revenue, up 64.8%.
• Sky contributed $4.5 billion in revenue, down 13.8%

Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which includes CNBC.

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