Comcast dividend history
Comcast's dividend was $1.32 a share in fiscal 2025, up 6.5% on the year before. That was 24.5% of net income. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2010, as far back as our figures go.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Buybacks (TTM)
- $4.1B
- Dividends (TTM)
- $4.8B
- Returned to shareholders
- 52%
- of free cash flow
- Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years
- $27.5B
- Diluted share count
- −4.4%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 10.4%
- dividends 5.7% + buybacks 4.8% of market value
- Dividend payout ratio
- 43%
- of net income paid out
- Days sales outstanding
- 40 days
- receivables vs revenue
Dividends by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | 2009Dec 2009 | 2010Dec 2010 | 2011Dec 2011 | 2012Dec 2012 | 2013Dec 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend per share | — | $0.189 | $0.225 | $0.325 | $0.390 | $0.450 | $0.500 | $0.550 | $0.630 | $0.760 | $0.840 | $0.920 | $1.00 | $1.08 | $1.16 | $1.24 | $1.32 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | — | +19.0% | +44.4% | +20.0% | +15.4% | +11.1% | +10.0% | +14.5% | +20.6% | +10.5% | +9.5% | +8.7% | +8.0% | +7.4% | +6.9% | +6.5% | — |
| Dividends paid | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| Share buybacks | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 7.2 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 4.7 | 13.3 | 11.3 | 9.1 | 7.2 | 4.1 |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 20.9% | 29.3% | 28.5% | 25.9% | 28.8% | 26.9% | 29.9% | 30.0% | 12.7% | 28.6% | 28.6% | 39.3% | 32.0% | 88.3% | 31.0% | 29.7% | 24.5% | 42.6% |
| Dividends ÷ free cash flow | 14.7% | 17.1% | 13.1% | 17.6% | 26.0% | 23.7% | 22.2% | 24.6% | 24.6% | 23.1% | 23.7% | 26.6% | 22.7% | 30.0% | 29.3% | 31.1% | 22.4% | 24.5% |
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