Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Comcast’s Class A common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol CMCSA. There is no established public trading market for Comcast’s Class B common stock. The Class B common stock can be converted, on a share for share basis, into Class A common stock.

We expect to continue to pay quarterly dividends, although each dividend is subject to approval by our Board of Directors. In January 2020, our Board of Directors approved a 10% increase in our dividend to $0.92 per share on an annualized basis.

Holders of Class A common stock in the aggregate hold 662/3% of the voting power of our common stock. The number of votes that each share of Class A common stock has at any given time depends on the number of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock then outstanding, with each share of Class B common stock having 15 votes per share. The Class B common stock represents 331/3% of the combined voting power of our common stock, which percentage is generally non-dilutable under the terms of our articles of incorporation. Mr. Brian L. Roberts beneficially owns all outstanding shares of Class B common stock. Generally, including as to the election of directors, holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock vote as one class except where class voting is required by law.

Record holders as of December 31, 2019 are presented in the table below.

There were no common stock repurchases during 2019. Effective January 1, 2017, our Board of Directors increased our share repurchase program authorization to $12 billion, which does not have an expiration date. As of December 31, 2019, $2 billion remained under our share repurchase program authorization. Common stock repurchases referenced above exclude shares withheld upon the vesting or exercise of employee share-based awards to settle tax withholding obligations.

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The following graph compares the annual percentage change in the cumulative total shareholder return on Comcast’s Class A common stock during the five years ended December 31, 2019 with the cumulative total returns on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index and a select peer group consisting of us and other companies engaged in the cable, communications and media industries. This peer group consists of our Class A common stock and the common stock of DISH Network Corporation (Class A), Charter Communications, Inc., AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., CenturyLink, Inc., T-Mobile US, Inc., and Sprint Corporation (the “transmission and distribution subgroup”); and The Walt Disney Company, ViacomCBS Inc. (Class B) (formerly CBS Corporation (Class B)), Viacom Inc. (Class B) (which is included through December 4, 2019 when it merged with CBS Corporation to form ViacomCBS Inc.), Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (Class A) (which is included through March 21, 2019 when it merged with the Walt Disney Company) and Discovery, Inc. (Class A) (the “media subgroup”).

The peer group is constructed as a composite peer group in which the transmission and distribution subgroup is weighted 66% and the media subgroup is weighted 34% based on the respective revenue of our transmission and distribution and media businesses. The comparison assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2014 in our Class A common stock and in each of the following indices and assumes the reinvestment of dividends.

NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal is a wholly owned subsidiary of NBCUniversal Holdings and there is no market for its equity securities.

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