Comcast
Sector unknown·CMCSA · USA (SEC 10-K)·Fiscal year to 31/12/2025
Video We offer video services to residential and business customers. Our video packages range from a basic to full linear service and typically include free-to-air networks, a variety of other linear television networks including premium, sports and news networks, and certain direct-to-consumer streaming services (“DTC streaming services”) such as Peacock, Disney+ and Netflix.
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Media and entertainment
End markets
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“Content & Experiences Business Media Segment We operate our Media segment as a combined television and streaming business, which primarily includes: •NBCUniversal’s national and regional cable networks •NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks and owned local broadcast television stations •Peacock DTC streaming service •International television networks, including Sky Sports networks in the United Kingdom and Italy We distribute a wide variety of programming on our linear television networks, Peacock and other digital properties to appeal to consumers with varying preferences across demographics and geographic areas.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“They must compete to obtain talent, popular content (including sports programming), advertising and other resources required to successfully operate their businesses. This competition has further intensified as certain DTC streaming service providers have commissioned, and may continue to commission, high-cost programming and acquire live sports rights to attract viewers at significant costs.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The number of entertainment choices available to consumers, including DTC streaming service providers and aggregators, social networking and user-generated content platforms, and gaming and virtual reality products and services, continues to increase, intensify audience fragmentation and disaggregate how content traditionally has been distributed to and viewed by consumers.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The popularity of many of these content distribution platforms has changed, and we expect will continue to change, consumers’ expectations of video content, video aggregation services and the value of our video services, their willingness to pay for such content and services, their perception of quality entertainment and their tolerance for commercial interruptions.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The continuing trend of content owners, including us with Peacock, delivering their content directly to consumers, rather than through, or in addition to, traditional video distribution channels also disrupts traditional media distribution business models. As consumers increasingly turn to DTC streaming services in lieu of linear video services, which continue to experience accelerated net customer losses, our video customers and video revenues, and linear television network subscriber fees received from video service providers, each decrease.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In addition to reducing traditional television viewership, these trends, when coupled with time-shifting technologies such as DVR and on demand services, have caused, and likely will continue to cause, audience ratings declines for our television networks.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We compete for the sale of advertising time with digital properties, including an increasing number of ad-supported DTC streaming service providers as advertisers have shifted, and may continue to shift, a larger portion of their total expenditures to digital media. We also compete with other online content providers, such as social networking platforms and user-generated content providers, television networks and stations, and all other advertising platforms.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In addition, lower audience ratings and reduced viewership, which many of our linear television networks have experienced, and likely will continue to experience, as well as the level of popularity of Peacock, affect advertisers’ willingness to purchase advertising from us and the rates paid.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Moreover, we may generate lower revenue when we opt to retain our content for our own use, including for Peacock, rather than licensing it to third parties who pay licensing fees for such content.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The loss of programming distribution agreements, or the renewal of these agreements on less favorable terms, could adversely affect our businesses. Our linear television networks depend on their ability to secure and maintain distribution agreements with traditional and virtual multichannel video providers.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“Programming To offer video services, Residential Connectivity & Platforms licenses substantial amounts of linear television programming from both third parties and our Media segment.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“The programming on our Sky-branded entertainment television networks includes content licensed from both third parties and our Studios segment, including certain original content, and the most significant agreements for the licensing of film and television entertainment content include rights with Paramount, Warner Bros. and our Studios segment, certain of which are exclusive rights.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our most significant sports rights agreements relate to the NBA, NFL, Olympics and English Premier League. The table below presents a summary of these and certain other sports rights as of December 31, 2025.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“We have various multiyear agreements for the licensing of content, including contracts related to television and/or streaming rights for sporting events. We generally seek to include in our sports rights agreements the rights to distribute content on one or more of our television networks and on digital properties, including Peacock.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“We obtain a significant portion of our content from third parties, such as movie studios, television production companies, sports organizations and other suppliers, sometimes on an exclusive basis. Competition for popular content, particularly for sports rights, is intense.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“Entering into or renewing contracts for such content rights or acquiring additional rights has in the past resulted, and may result in the future, in significantly increased costs, potentially over an extended contractual term.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“Programming expenses for our video services are increasing on a per subscriber basis, which could adversely affect our video businesses.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“We expect programming expenses for our video services to continue to be the largest single expense item for our Residential Connectivity & Platforms business and to continue to increase on a per subscriber basis.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“Part of these programming expenses include payments to certain local broadcast television stations in exchange for their required consent for the retransmission of broadcast network programming to video services customers; we expect to continue to be subject to demands for payment and other concessions from local broadcast television stations.”
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Market
“Video We offer video services to residential and business customers. Our video packages range from a basic to full linear service and typically include free-to-air networks, a variety of other linear television networks including premium, sports and news networks, and certain direct-to-consumer streaming services (“DTC streaming services”) such as Peacock, Disney+ and Netflix.”
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Market
“Advertising As part of our distribution agreements with domestic cable networks, we generally receive an allocation of scheduled advertising time that our advertising business sells, and we also sell advertising on our Sky-branded entertainment television networks and on our digital platforms.”
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Market
“We sell advertising on our linear television networks, Peacock and other digital properties.”
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Market
“Domestic Broadcast Networks NBC The NBC network features original entertainment, news and sports programming that reaches viewers in virtually all U.S. television households through more than 200 affiliated stations across the United States, including our 11 owned NBC local broadcast television stations. The NBC owned local broadcast television stations include stations in 8 of the top 10 general markets and collectively reached approximately 36 million U.S. television households as of December 31, 2025, representing approximately 28% of U.S. television households.”
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Market
“Peacock Peacock is our DTC streaming service, featuring NBCUniversal and third-party content. Programming includes exclusive Peacock originals, current NBC, Bravo and Telemundo shows, news, late-night comedy, live sports and a library of television shows and movies, as well as several live channels and a live stream of customers’ local NBC affiliate stations.”
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Market
“International Networks We operate a diversified portfolio of international television networks, including premium sports networks under the Sky Sports brand in the United Kingdom and Italy, with a majority of networks dedicated to a specific sport, such as European football.”
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Market
“Studios Segment Our Studios segment primarily includes our NBCUniversal and Sky film and television studio production and distribution operations. Our studio production facilities primarily include our owned Universal City location in Los Angeles, California and our leased studios in Atlanta, Georgia and in Elstree, United Kingdom. Revenue is generated primarily from the worldwide licensing of our owned film and television content and from the worldwide distribution of our produced and acquired films for exhibition in movie theaters.”
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Market
“Revenue is primarily generated from the sale of advertising and from the distribution of our television and streaming programming.”
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Market
“We also generate revenue from the sale of physical and digital home entertainment products, as well as from the production and licensing of live stage plays and from the distribution of content produced by third parties.”
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Market
“Because we derive substantial revenue from the sale of advertising, a decline in expenditures by advertisers, including through traditional linear television distribution models or on Peacock, could negatively impact our results of operations.”
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Market
“•Our wireless and voice services compete with both telecommunications and wireless telecommunication providers. •Competition for video services consists primarily of DTC streaming service providers and aggregators, DBS providers and telecommunications companies. •Business Services Connectivity primarily competes with wireline telecommunications companies and wide area network managed service providers. •Our businesses in Content & Experiences, as well as our video business, face substantial and increasing competition from providers of similar types of entertainment, sports, news and information content, as well as from other forms of entertainment, including from social networking and user-generated content or technologies such as AI that can rapidly produce large volumes of content, as well as tourism, recreational activities and lodging.”
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Financial regulation
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In the United States in particular, the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the “Communications Act”), and Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) regulations and policies affect significant aspects of our communications businesses. Beyond the more significant regulations summarized below, legislators and regulators at all levels of government frequently consider changing, and sometimes do change, existing statutes, rules or regulations, or interpretations of existing statutes, rules or regulations, or prescribe new ones, any of which may significantly affect our businesses and ability to effectively compete. Applying existing laws in novel ways to new technologies, including streaming services and artificial intelligence (“AI”), may also affect our business.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“These legislators and regulators, along with some state attorneys general and foreign governmental authorities, have been active in conducting inquiries and reviews regarding our services. State legislative and regulatory initiatives can create a patchwork of different and/or conflicting state requirements, such as with respect to privacy and Open Internet/net neutrality regulations, that can affect our businesses and ability to effectively compete.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“In 2024, the FCC reclassified broadband internet access services as a “telecommunications service” subject to traditional common carriage regulation under Title II of the Communications Act. However, a federal appellate court in January 2025 overturned that reclassification, ruling that broadband internet access service is an “information service” under Title I of the Communications Act and that the FCC does not have authority to subject broadband services to utility-style regulations such as rate regulation and market entry and exit requirements under Title II. As a Title I “information service,” broadband is only subject to light-touch regulation such as broadband disclosure requirements, and deployment, subscription and pricing reporting requirements.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“States and localities have in the past enacted, and may in the future periodically consider, new broadband-related regulations, including those regarding government-owned broadband networks, net neutrality and broadband affordability, which could create a patchwork of, and potentially inconsistent, federal, state and local regulatory regimes.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“These laws and regulations can constrain our ability to compete, particularly against DTC streaming service providers, which are not subject to these same requirements. Federal, state and local franchising rules and regulations may require us to provide adequate channel capacity, facilities and financial support for public, educational and governmental access programming; comply with certain renewal procedures for our franchise agreements; pay franchise fees; and comply with customer service, accessibility, and certain other requirements.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In addition, the FCC and other federal agencies can impact the programming networks that we carry, as well as how we price, package, bill and market our video services. FCC regulations also require cable operators to carry programming transmitted by certain local broadcast television stations (“must-carry” requirement) or to negotiate a “retransmission consent” agreement with certain other stations that will frequently involve payments from cable operators to the station; govern program access by preventing cable networks affiliated with cable operators from favoring affiliated cable operators over competing multichannel video providers; grant licenses to broadcast television stations for 8-year cycles, which may not be renewed on favorable terms, or at all; limit local and national broadcast television ownership, as well as foreign ownership in a broadcast television station; and regulate children’s programming.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We have been involved in disputes at the FCC in some of these areas and may be involved in new disputes in the future, including potential disputes related to content moderation and free speech.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Wireless We offer a wireless service primarily using our MVNO rights to provide the service over Verizon’s wireless network to customers, and beginning in 2026, over T-Mobile’s wireless network to business customers. MVNOs are subject to many of the same FCC regulations as facilities-based wireless carriers, such as E911 services and local number portability, as well as certain state or local regulations. The FCC or other regulatory authorities may adopt new or different regulations for MVNOs and/or mobile broadband providers in the future, which could adversely affect our wireless service offering or our business generally.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The FCC has adopted a number of regulations for providers of nontraditional voice services such as ours, including regulations relating to privacy of customer proprietary network information, local number portability duties and benefits, disability access, E911, law enforcement assistance, outage reporting, Universal Service Fund contribution obligations, rural call completion, customer equipment back-up power, robocall mitigation, service discontinuance and certain regulatory filing requirements. State regulatory commissions and legislatures in other jurisdictions may continue to consider imposing regulatory requirements on our voice services as long as the regulatory classification of VoIP remains unsettled at the federal level.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Further, if the FCC reallocates spectrum that our businesses currently use to provide services, we could be required to transition our operations to different frequencies in order to accommodate the reallocation of spectrum for 5G, which could disrupt our services and impose additional costs.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“International Communications-Related and Other Regulations Certain of our international businesses are subject to telecommunications and media-specific regulation, including those related to broadband and voice services and television networks, in Europe, Latin America, and other international jurisdictions, and all of our international businesses are subject to regulation under generally applicable laws, such as competition, consumer protection, data protection, and taxation in the jurisdictions where they operate. Our international businesses are currently, and may be in the future, subject to proceedings or investigations from regulatory and antitrust authorities in the jurisdictions in which those businesses operate.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Modifications to existing laws, a weakening of these protections or their enforcement or a failure of existing laws, in the United States or internationally, to adapt to new technologies could have an adverse effect on our ability to license and sell our programming.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The cable compulsory copyright license and the royalties we pay are subject to audits and possible regulatory and legislative changes that could impact the royalty fees we pay and our ability to retransmit broadcast signals over cable systems. In addition, the landscape for music licensing is constantly changing, and music fees we pay are subject to new fee demands and negotiations. We cannot predict how changes to the compulsory copyright license and music licensing will impact the fees that we pay.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Privacy and Data Protection Regulation Our businesses are subject to laws and regulations that impose various restrictions and obligations related to privacy and the processing of individuals’ personal information. In the United States, federal privacy laws and regulations, such as those found within the Communications Act or the Video Privacy Protection Act, restrict companies’ collection, use, disclosure and retention of personal information. The proliferation of laws at the state level has expanded consumers’ rights to include individual rights of access, deletion, portability, correction, the right to appeal, and the individual’s right to “opt in” to collection and use of certain types of “sensitive” personal information. Internationally, we are subject to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act of 2018, as well as many other similar laws that apply to our businesses, which broadly regulate the processing of personal data collected from individuals in the European Union and United Kingdom, respectively.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Some of our businesses are also subject to the FTC’s general oversight of consumer privacy protections through its enforcement authority over unfair and deceptive acts or practices, as well as through its enforcement authority under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The FTC has sought to expand its authority in this area through various rulemakings related to general privacy, targeted advertising and children’s privacy. There has been an increased focus on children’s privacy at both the state and federal levels within the United States, as well as internationally.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In addition, many international data protection laws, some federal laws, and all 50 U.S. states have security breach notification requirements that obligate businesses to provide notice to consumers and government agencies if certain information has been accessed or exfiltrated by an unauthorized party; some of these laws also require documented information security programs.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“State and Local Taxes Some U.S. states and localities have imposed or are considering imposing, through both legislative and administrative channels, new or additional taxes or fees on, or limiting or eliminating incentives or credits earned or monetized by, our businesses, or imposing adverse methodologies by which taxes, fees, incentives or credits are computed, earned or monetized. These include combined reporting or other changes to general business taxes, central assessments for property tax, and taxes and fees on the businesses operated or services provided by our businesses, most notably new taxes or fees on digital advertising or other digital commerce.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In some situations, DBS providers and other competitors (such as DTC streaming service providers) that deliver their services over a broadband connection do not face the same state and local tax and fee burdens. Congress has also considered, and may consider again, proposals to bar or limit states from imposing taxes on these DBS providers or other competitors (such as DTC streaming service providers) that are equivalent to the taxes or fees that we pay.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Other Regulations U.S. states and localities, and various regulatory authorities, actively regulate other aspects of our businesses, including our Studios and Theme Parks businesses, accessibility to our video and voice services and broadcast television programming for people with disabilities, customer service standards, inside wiring, cable equipment, pole attachments, universal service fees, regulatory fees, public safety, telemarketing, leased access, indecency, loudness of commercial advertisements, advertising, political broadcasting, sponsorship identification, Emergency Alert System, equal employment opportunity and other employment-related practices, environmental-related matters, our equipment supply chain, and technical standards relating to the operation of cable systems and television stations. In addition, our international businesses are subject to various similar regulations, including those that cover television broadcasting, programming, and advertising. We are occasionally subject to enforcement actions and investigations at the FCC and other federal, state, and local agencies, as well as foreign governments and regulatory authorities, which can result in fines, sanctions and/or ongoing compliance plans and government oversight.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“We offer broadband and wireline voice services in the United Kingdom and Italy using third-party networks. In many cases, the fee for us to access these networks is on regulated terms.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“The FCC and Congress have previously considered proposals that would require companies that own multiple cable networks to make each of their networks available individually when negotiating distribution agreements with MVPDs and potentially with DTC streaming service providers. We currently offer our cable networks on a packaged basis (in “tiers”) and, in various cases, individually.”
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Consumer spending
Macro
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“Content & Experiences Business Media Segment We operate our Media segment as a combined television and streaming business, which primarily includes: •NBCUniversal’s national and regional cable networks •NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks and owned local broadcast television stations •Peacock DTC streaming service •International television networks, including Sky Sports networks in the United Kingdom and Italy We distribute a wide variety of programming on our linear television networks, Peacock and other digital properties to appeal to consumers with varying preferences across demographics and geographic areas.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Our domestic broadband offerings have a range of service levels, including up to gigabit-plus downstream speeds that we offer across nearly our entire footprint.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Similar to the competitive environment in our Media segment, the willingness of advertisers to purchase advertising from us may be adversely affected by declines in audience ratings and television viewership, difficulty in measuring fragmented audiences and the increasing number of entertainment choices available.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Theatrical revenue is significantly affected by the timing of each release and the number of films we distribute, their acceptance by audiences, the number of exhibition screens, ticket prices, the percentage of ticket sales retention by the exhibitors and the popularity of competing films at the time our films are released.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Revenue is generated primarily from guest spending at our theme parks, including ticket sales and in-park spending on food, beverages and merchandise, and from our consumer products business. Revenue for our theme parks generally depends on the overall environment for travel and tourism, including consumer spending on leisure and other recreational activities.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Macroeconomic conditions and other factors, including changes in currency exchange rates, may also result in shifting consumer preferences toward other types of destinations, experiences and products.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Revenue in Media is also subject to cyclical advertising patterns and changes in viewership levels. Domestic advertising revenue is generally highest in the fourth quarter of each year due to increases in advertising in the period leading up to and including the winter holiday season, and in even-numbered years due to advertising related to candidates running for political office and issue-oriented advertising. International advertising revenue typically has seasonally higher audience levels in winter months, with lower levels in summer months due to the timing of European football seasons, winter holidays and summer vacations.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Revenue in Studios fluctuates due to the timing, nature and number of films released in movie theaters, through DTC streaming services and viewing on demand, and on physical and digital home entertainment products. Release dates are determined by several factors, including competition and the timing of vacation and holiday periods. As a result, revenue tends to be seasonal, with increases experienced each year during the summer months and around the winter holiday season.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Revenue in Theme Parks fluctuates with changes in theme park attendance that typically result from the seasonal nature of vacation travel and weather variations, local entertainment offerings and the opening of new attractions. Our theme parks generally experience peak attendance during the spring holiday period, the summer months when schools are closed and the winter holiday season.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Changes in consumer behavior continue to adversely affect our businesses and challenge existing business models. Distribution platforms for viewing and purchasing content continue to challenge existing business models, increase the number of competitors that our businesses face, and have driven, and will continue to drive, changes in consumer behavior as consumers seek control over when, where and how they consume content and access communications services, and how much or for how long they pay for such content.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“A decline in advertisers’ expenditures or changes in advertising markets could negatively impact our businesses.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“For example, weak economic conditions will likely impact our customers’ discretionary spending and as a result, they may reduce the level of services to which they subscribe or may discontinue subscribing to one or more of our services altogether.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Weak economic conditions also negatively impact our advertising revenue, the performance of our films and home entertainment releases, and attendance and spending in our theme parks.”
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Market
“Description of Our Businesses Connectivity & Platforms Business Residential Connectivity & Platforms Segment Our Residential Connectivity & Platforms segment primarily includes: •Residential broadband and wireless services (collectively, “Residential Connectivity”) •Residential and business video services, advertising, residential voice services, and Sky-branded entertainment television networks We offer services to customers individually and as bundled services at a discounted rate.”
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Chains in: Inflation weakens
Chains out: this strengthens Retail, strengthens Hospitality and leisure, strengthens Premium consumers, strengthens Grocery retail and private label
Digitalisation
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“New technologies can materially impact our businesses in a number of ways, including affecting the demand for our products, the distribution methods of our products and content to our customers, how we create our entertainment products, the ways in which our customers can purchase and view our content and the growth of distribution platforms available to advertisers.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Network and Technology Our Connectivity & Platforms businesses use our HFC network in the United States, which we believe is sufficiently flexible and scalable to support our future technology requirements and enables us to continue to grow capacity and capabilities over time.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Our Connectivity & Platforms business engineering teams continue to focus on technology initiatives to develop and deploy next-generation media, content delivery, content aggregation and streaming platforms that support X1, Sky Q, NOW, Sky Stream, Sky Glass and Xumo. These platforms are based on our global technology platform and integrate linear television networks, DTC streaming services and other internet-based apps, and on demand programming into a unified experience with voice-activated remote-control search and interactive features.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We also will continue to incur additional costs as we execute our technology initiatives, such as the deployment of multigigabit symmetrical speeds by leveraging our DOCSIS 4.0 technology and the development and enhancement of various streaming platforms.”
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Chains in: Cybersecurity (products and services) strengthens, Public investment and infrastructure strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens IT consulting and public-sector IT
E-commerce
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The continuing trend of content owners, including us with Peacock, delivering their content directly to consumers, rather than through, or in addition to, traditional video distribution channels also disrupts traditional media distribution business models. As consumers increasingly turn to DTC streaming services in lieu of linear video services, which continue to experience accelerated net customer losses, our video customers and video revenues, and linear television network subscriber fees received from video service providers, each decrease.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We compete for the sale of advertising time with digital properties, including an increasing number of ad-supported DTC streaming service providers as advertisers have shifted, and may continue to shift, a larger portion of their total expenditures to digital media. We also compete with other online content providers, such as social networking platforms and user-generated content providers, television networks and stations, and all other advertising platforms.”
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Market
“Peacock Peacock is our DTC streaming service, featuring NBCUniversal and third-party content. Programming includes exclusive Peacock originals, current NBC, Bravo and Telemundo shows, news, late-night comedy, live sports and a library of television shows and movies, as well as several live channels and a live stream of customers’ local NBC affiliate stations.”
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Market
“We offer Peacock in the United States directly to customers or through arrangements with third parties and our Residential Connectivity & Platforms segment, which offer Peacock to customers on our behalf.”
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Telecoms and 5G
Technology
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Wireless We offer wireless services for wireless handsets, tablets and smart watches (“wireless devices”) to residential customers in the United States and the United Kingdom using mobile virtual network operator (“MVNO”) rights. Our domestic wireless services are offered over Verizon’s wireless network and our existing network of secure residential, outdoor and business Wi-Fi hotspots, and are offered initially only as part of our bundled service offerings to customers that subscribe to our qualifying broadband services.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“•Connectivity & Platforms’ broadband services compete primarily against wireline telecommunications companies, including many that are increasing deployment of fiber-based networks; wireless telecommunications companies offering internet services (using a variety of wireless technologies, including 5G fixed wireless networks and 4G and 5G wireless broadband services); municipalities and power companies in the United States that own and operate their own broadband networks; and satellite broadband providers.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“For example, current and new wireless internet technologies (including 5G fixed wireless networks and 4G and 5G wireless broadband services) continue to evolve rapidly and may allow for greater speed and reliability for those services as compared with prior technologies and create further competition for our businesses.”
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Market
“•Our wireless and voice services compete with both telecommunications and wireless telecommunication providers. •Competition for video services consists primarily of DTC streaming service providers and aggregators, DBS providers and telecommunications companies. •Business Services Connectivity primarily competes with wireline telecommunications companies and wide area network managed service providers. •Our businesses in Content & Experiences, as well as our video business, face substantial and increasing competition from providers of similar types of entertainment, sports, news and information content, as well as from other forms of entertainment, including from social networking and user-generated content or technologies such as AI that can rapidly produce large volumes of content, as well as tourism, recreational activities and lodging.”
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Tourism, hotels and experiences
End markets
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Theatrical revenue is significantly affected by the timing of each release and the number of films we distribute, their acceptance by audiences, the number of exhibition screens, ticket prices, the percentage of ticket sales retention by the exhibitors and the popularity of competing films at the time our films are released.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Revenue is generated primarily from guest spending at our theme parks, including ticket sales and in-park spending on food, beverages and merchandise, and from our consumer products business. Revenue for our theme parks generally depends on the overall environment for travel and tourism, including consumer spending on leisure and other recreational activities.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Revenue in Theme Parks fluctuates with changes in theme park attendance that typically result from the seasonal nature of vacation travel and weather variations, local entertainment offerings and the opening of new attractions. Our theme parks generally experience peak attendance during the spring holiday period, the summer months when schools are closed and the winter holiday season.”
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Market
“In particular, the success of our theme parks and theatrical releases largely depends on consumer demand for out-of-home entertainment experiences, which may be limited by weakened economic conditions.”
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Electricity
Raw materials and inputs
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Residential Connectivity Broadband We offer broadband services in the United States over our hybrid fiber-optic and coaxial (“HFC”) network, as well as through direct fiber-to-the-premises connections for certain customers, and internationally in the United Kingdom and Italy by leveraging networks owned by third-party telecommunications providers.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“•Deploying fiber-to-the-premises with symmetrical speed offerings ranging up to 10 gigabits per second to residential customers who request that service, subject to local construction constraints, and up to 100 gigabits per second to business customers, with up to 400 gigabits per second to certain business customers. •Executing on our multi-year strategy to evolve our existing HFC network, including the rollout of DOCSIS 4.0 in select markets, which allows for multigigabit symmetrical speeds.”
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Chains in: Data centres strengthens, Electrification strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Power grid expansion
SMEs
End markets
Market
“Description of Our Businesses Connectivity & Platforms Business Residential Connectivity & Platforms Segment Our Residential Connectivity & Platforms segment primarily includes: •Residential broadband and wireless services (collectively, “Residential Connectivity”) •Residential and business video services, advertising, residential voice services, and Sky-branded entertainment television networks We offer services to customers individually and as bundled services at a discounted rate.”
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Market
“Business Services Connectivity Segment Our Business Services Connectivity segment consists primarily of offerings under the Comcast Business brand, including domestic service offerings for small businesses that include broadband, wireline voice and wireless services, and domestic and international enterprise solutions offerings for medium-sized customers and larger enterprises with multiple locations.”
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Automation and robotics
Technology
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Network and Technology Our Connectivity & Platforms businesses use our HFC network in the United States, which we believe is sufficiently flexible and scalable to support our future technology requirements and enables us to continue to grow capacity and capabilities over time.”
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Hospitality and leisure
End markets
Market
“We deliver broadband, wireless, video and voice services primarily under the Xfinity, Comcast Business, Sky and NOW brands; produce, distribute and stream leading entertainment, sports and news through brands including NBC, Telemundo, Universal, Peacock and Sky; and own and operate Universal theme parks.”
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Chains in: Consumer spending strengthens
Industrial manufacturing
End markets
Market
“Our enterprise solutions offerings also include ethernet network services, which connect multiple locations and provide higher downstream and upstream broadband speed options, advanced voice services, and a software-defined networking product. Larger enterprises may also receive support services related to Wi-Fi networks, router management, network security, business continuity risks and other services.”
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Retail
End markets
Market
“We receive fees from the distribution of our television networks to traditional multichannel video providers, such as our Residential Connectivity & Platforms segment, and from virtual multichannel video providers that offer streamed linear television networks.”
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Chains in: Consumer spending strengthens
Artificial intelligence
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The number of entertainment choices available to consumers, including DTC streaming service providers and aggregators, social networking and user-generated content platforms, and gaming and virtual reality products and services, continues to increase, intensify audience fragmentation and disaggregate how content traditionally has been distributed to and viewed by consumers.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our failure to effectively anticipate or adapt to emerging competitors or changes in consumer behavior, including among younger consumers, and shifting business models could have an adverse effect on our competitive position, businesses and results of operations.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our success is, to a large extent, dependent on our ability to acquire, develop, adopt and leverage new and existing technologies, such as AI, and our competitors’ use of certain types of technology and equipment may provide them with a competitive advantage.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“New technologies can materially impact our businesses in a number of ways, including affecting the demand for our products, the distribution methods of our products and content to our customers, how we create our entertainment products, the ways in which our customers can purchase and view our content and the growth of distribution platforms available to advertisers.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“If we choose technology or equipment that is not as effective or attractive to consumers as that employed by our competitors, if we fail to employ technologies desired by consumers or that enhance our business operations, such as through the use of AI, or if we fail to execute effectively on our technology initiatives, our businesses and results of operations could be adversely affected.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“For example, we expect threat actors will continue to gain sophistication by using tools and techniques, such as AI, that are specifically designed to circumvent security controls.”
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Chains out: this strengthens Data centres, strengthens Semiconductors and electronic components, strengthens Semiconductor industry
Cybersecurity (products and services)
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In particular, unauthorized copying, distribution and piracy of programming and films over the internet, through devices, software and websites, on counterfeit DVDs/Blu-rays, through AI and through other platforms interfere with the market for copyrighted works and present challenges for our content businesses. We have actively engaged in the enforcement of our intellectual property rights and likely will continue to expend substantial resources to protect our content.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“A cyber attack, information or security breach, or technology disruption or failure may negatively impact our ability to conduct our business or result in the misuse of confidential information, all of which could adversely affect our business, reputation or results of operations. Network and information systems and other technologies, including those that are related to our network management, customer service operations and programming delivery and are embedded in our products and services, are critical to our business activities.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We also obtain certain confidential, proprietary and personal information about our customers, personnel and vendors, that in many cases is provided or made available to third-party vendors who agree to protect it, which has in the past, and may in the future, become compromised through a cyber attack or data breach, misappropriation, misuse, leakage, falsification or accidental release or loss of information by us or a third party.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The occurrence of both intentional and unintentional incidents has caused, and may from time to time in the future cause, a variety of business impacts. These include degradation or disruption of our network, products and services, excessive call volume to call centers, theft or misuse of our intellectual property or other assets, disruption of the security of our internal systems, products, services or satellite transmission signals, power outages, and the compromise or exfiltration of sensitive, personal, proprietary, confidential or technical business information and customer or vendor data, and reputational impacts.”
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Chains in: Cyber attacks and IT security risk strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Digitalisation
Labour and wages
Raw materials and inputs
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Human Capital Resources As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 179,000 full-time and part-time employees calculated on a full-time equivalent basis. Approximately 30% of our employees were located in over 30 countries outside the United States, with larger workforce concentrations in the United Kingdom, Western Europe, East Asia and South Asia.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“In connection with film studio productions, we typically owe “residuals” payments to individuals hired under collective bargaining agreements, which are generally calculated based on post-theatrical or content licensing revenue. We also typically owe “participations” payments to creative talent, to third parties under co-financing agreements and to other parties involved in content production, which are generally based on the financial performance of the content.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“In addition, our Content & Experiences business depends on the abilities and expertise of on-air and creative talent. If we fail to attract or retain on-air or creative talent, if the costs to attract or retain such talent increase materially, or if these individuals cause negative publicity or lose their current appeal, our businesses could be adversely affected.”
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Public investment and infrastructure
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Domestic broadband-deployment funding initiatives at federal and state levels may result in other service providers deploying subsidized internet access within our footprint.”
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DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Legislative and regulatory activity has increased in recent years, particularly with respect to broadband networks. For example, Congress has approved tens of billions of dollars in funding for broadband deployment and adoption initiatives, and it may from time to time consider other proposals that address communications issues, including whether it should rewrite the Communications Act to account for changes in the communications marketplace.”
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DriverMixed impact: mixed
“A number of municipalities operate municipally owned broadband networks, and there may be further efforts by local governments to expand or create government-owned networks, particularly in light of federal funding for broadband deployment. Certain states have enacted laws that restrict or prohibit local municipalities from operating municipally owned broadband networks, and there may be efforts in other state legislatures to restrict the development of government-owned networks. Other states, however, have amended or may amend such laws to facilitate such networks.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Domestic broadband-deployment funding initiatives at the federal and state level may result in other service providers deploying new subsidized internet access networks within our footprint, and in cases where we receive subsidies, may impose constraints on how we conduct our businesses.”
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Chains in: Reconstruction of Ukraine strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Construction, strengthens Digitalisation, strengthens IT consulting and public-sector IT
Inflation
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Certain companies that offer DSL services have increased data transmission speeds, lowered prices or created bundled services to compete with our broadband services.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Further, inflationary pressures in the United States, in Europe and globally may also have negative impacts on our cost structure and pricing models and may impact the ability of third parties (including advertisers, customers, suppliers, wholesale distributors, retailers and content creators, among others) to satisfy their obligations to us.”
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Chains out: this weakens Consumer spending, strengthens Interest rates
Semiconductors and electronic components
Raw materials and inputs
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Other Sources of Supply and Operations We purchase from a limited number of suppliers a significant amount of customer premise equipment, including wireless gateways and set-top boxes, network equipment, and services to provide our broadband and video services to residential and business customers.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“We also purchase from a limited number of suppliers a significant number of wireless devices.”
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Chains in: Artificial intelligence strengthens
Climate change and extreme weather
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our services, products and properties are vulnerable to damage from the occurrence of certain events, including natural disasters, severe weather events such as hurricanes and wildfires, and a range of other unforeseeable events such as infectious disease outbreaks, terrorist attacks or other similar events. Such events have in the past caused, and could in the future cause, a variety of adverse business impacts including degradation or disruption of our network, products and services, excessive call volume to call centers, a reduction in demand for our products, services and theme parks, disruption of our internal systems, products, services or satellite transmission signals, power outages, and damage to our or our customers’ or vendors’ equipment and properties.”
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Chains out: this weakens Agriculture and food production
Consumer preference shifts
End markets
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our success depends on consumer acceptance of our content, and our businesses may be adversely affected if our content fails to achieve sufficient consumer acceptance. We create and acquire media, sports and entertainment content, the success of which depends substantially on consumer tastes and preferences that often change in unpredictable ways.”
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Chains out: this mixed effect Beer and beverages
Currency exposure
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Macroeconomic conditions and other factors, including changes in currency exchange rates, may also result in shifting consumer preferences toward other types of destinations, experiences and products.”
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Interest rates
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Weak economic conditions and disruptions in the global financial markets, such as high interest rates, may impact our ability to obtain financing or to refinance existing debt on acceptable terms, if at all, which could increase the cost of our borrowings over time and may increase our exposure to currency fluctuations in countries where we operate.”
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Chains in: Public debt and fiscal policy strengthens, Inflation strengthens
Chains out: this weakens Construction, weakens Real estate, weakens Wind power, weakens Housing market, weakens Office and commercial property, weakens Residential rental, weakens Residential construction
M&A and consolidation
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“These market factors may be exacerbated by consolidation in the media industry, which may further increase our programming expenses.”
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Europe
Geography
Geography
“We operate two primary businesses: •Connectivity & Platforms: Contains our broadband, wireless, video and wireline voice businesses in the United States, United Kingdom and Italy (collectively, the “Connectivity & Platforms markets”).”
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Geography
“Residential Connectivity Broadband We offer broadband services in the United States over our hybrid fiber-optic and coaxial (“HFC”) network, as well as through direct fiber-to-the-premises connections for certain customers, and internationally in the United Kingdom and Italy by leveraging networks owned by third-party telecommunications providers.”
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Geography
“Our international broadband services primarily include fiber-to-the-premises and fiber-to-the-cabinet offerings.”
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Cement and building materials
Raw materials and inputs
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In addition, some companies and U.S. municipalities are building advanced fiber-based networks that provide very fast internet access speeds, and some providers offer newer satellite broadband services.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Carbon tax and ETS prices weakens, Reconstruction of Ukraine strengthens
United States
Geography
Geography
“We operate two primary businesses: •Connectivity & Platforms: Contains our broadband, wireless, video and wireline voice businesses in the United States, United Kingdom and Italy (collectively, the “Connectivity & Platforms markets”).”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: USD vs DKK/EUR mixed effect
Competitors mentioned in the report
No named competitors in the report.
Financial figures
| Revenue latest fiscal year | 123.71 bn USD |
| Revenue growth vs. the year before, same method | -0 % |
| EBITDA reported by the company | 36.88 bn USD |
| Net debt debt incl. leasing minus cash | 89.6 bn USD |
| Diluted EPS per share | 5.39 USD |
Source: 10-K (SEC) A. See the report
Criteria
| Profit | ✓ |
| Growing | ✗ |
| Healthy balance sheet | ✓ |
Only the criteria that can be computed from financial statements on this page. The remaining criteria (such as price and dividend) need a share price and are in the analysis.
Figures are in the report's currency (USD), not converted to DKK. Quotes are shown as the company's own words in English.