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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)
☒ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020

OR

☐TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM to

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Commission File NumberRegistrant; State of Incorporation; Address and Telephone NumberI.R.S. Employer Identification No.
001-32871COMCAST CORPORATION27-0000798

Pennsylvania

One Comcast Center

Philadelphia, PA 19103-2838

(215) 286-1700

SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OF THE ACT:
Title of Each ClassTrading symbol(s)Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par valueCMCSANASDAQ Global Select Market
0.250% Notes due 2027CMCS27NASDAQ Global Market
1.500% Notes due 2029CMCS29NASDAQ Global Market
0.750% Notes due 2032CMCS32NASDAQ Global Market
1.875% Notes due 2036CMCS36NASDAQ Global Market
1.250% Notes due 2040CMCS40NASDAQ Global Market
9.455% Guaranteed Notes due 2022CMCSA/22New York Stock Exchange
5.50% Notes due 2029CCGBP29New York Stock Exchange
2.0% Exchangeable Subordinated Debentures due 2029CCZNew York Stock Exchange
SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(g) OF THE ACT: NONE

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:

Large accelerated filer☒Accelerated filer☐Non-accelerated filer☐Smaller reporting company☐Emerging growth company☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

As of June 30, 2020, the aggregate market value of the Comcast Corporation common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $176.648 billion.

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date:

As of December 31, 2020, there were 4,571,211,797 shares of Comcast Corporation Class A common stock and 9,444,375 shares of Class B common stock outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Comcast Corporation – Part III – The registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement for its annual meeting of shareholders.

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Comcast Corporation

2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K

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PART I
Item 1Business1
Item 1ARisk Factors21
Item 1BUnresolved Staff Comments29
Item 2Properties29
Item 3Legal Proceedings30
Item 4Mine Safety Disclosures30
PART II
Item 5Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities31
Item 6Selected Financial Data33
Item 7Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations34
Item 7AQuantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk66
Item 8Comcast Corporation Financial Statements and Supplementary Data68
Item 9Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure102
Item 9AControls and Procedures102
PART III
Item 10Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance103
Item 11Executive Compensation103
Item 12Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters104
Item 13Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence104
Item 14Principal Accountant Fees and Services104
PART IV
Item 15Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules105
Item 16Form 10-K Summary109
Signatures110

Explanatory Note

Beginning with our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, we are voluntarily complying with new disclosure rules for guarantors and issuers of guaranteed debt securities issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in March 2020, as permitted by the transition guidance contained in the SEC’s final rule release “Financial Disclosures about Guarantors and Issuers of Guaranteed Securities and Affiliates Whose Securities Collateralize a Registrant’s Securities.” As a result, this report includes disclosures related to our consolidated subsidiaries that guarantee or have issued guaranteed debt securities registered with the SEC that are included within our guarantee structure (refer to Guarantee Structure within the Liquidity and Capital Resources section of Item 2: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations). As a result of these rules, NBCUniversal Media, LLC is no longer required to prepare stand-alone periodic reports under SEC rules, and our periodic reports are no longer prepared as a combined report being filed separately by Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal Media, LLC.

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Unless indicated otherwise, throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we refer to Comcast and its consolidated subsidiaries, as “Comcast,” “we,” “us” and “our;” Comcast Cable Communications, LLC and its consolidated subsidiaries as “Comcast Cable;” Comcast Holdings Corporation as “Comcast Holdings;” NBCUniversal Enterprise, Inc. as “NBCUniversal Enterprise;” NBCUniversal Media, LLC and its consolidated subsidiaries as “NBCUniversal;” and Sky Limited and its consolidated subsidiaries as “Sky.”

This Annual Report on Form 10-K is for the year ended December 31, 2020. This Annual Report on Form 10-K modifies and supersedes documents filed before it. The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information that we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you directly to those documents. Information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition, information that we file with the SEC in the future will automatically update and supersede information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Our registered trademarks include Comcast, NBCUniversal and the Comcast and NBCUniversal logos. This Annual Report on Form 10-K also contains other trademarks, service marks and trade names owned by us, as well as those owned by others.

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Part I

Next: Item 1. Business