Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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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.
| Dividends Declared | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 2019 | |||||||||||||
| Month Declared: | Dividend Per Share | Month Declared: | Dividend Per Share | |||||||||||
| January | $ | 0.23 | January | $ | 0.21 | |||||||||
| May | $ | 0.23 | May | $ | 0.21 | |||||||||
| July | $ | 0.23 | July | $ | 0.21 | |||||||||
| October (paid in January 2021) | $ | 0.23 | October (paid in January 2020) | $ | 0.21 | |||||||||
| Total | $ | 0.92 | Total | $ | 0.84 |
We expect to continue to pay quarterly dividends, although each dividend is subject to approval by our Board of Directors. In January 2021, our Board of Directors approved a 9% increase in our dividend to $1.00 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, 2020 are presented in the table below.
| Stock Class | Record Holders | ||||
| Class A Common Stock | 371,292 | ||||
| Class B Common Stock | 3 |
| 31 | Comcast 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K |
| Stock Performance Graph |
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, 2020 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 AT&T Inc., Charter Communications, Inc., DISH Network Corporation (Class A), Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink, Inc.), Sprint Corporation (which is included through April 1, 2020, when it merged with T-Mobile US, Inc.), T-Mobile US, Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. (the “transmission and distribution subgroup”); and Discovery, Inc. (Class A), ViacomCBS Inc. (Class B) and The Walt Disney Company (the “media subgroup”).
The peer group is constructed as a composite peer group in which the transmission and distribution subgroup is weighted 71% and the media subgroup is weighted 29% based on the respective revenue of our transmission and distribution and media businesses. The comparison assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2015 in our Class A common stock and in each of the following indices and assumes the reinvestment of dividends.
| Comparison of 5 Year Cumulative Total Return |

| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| Comcast Class A | $ | 125 | $ | 147 | $ | 128 | $ | 172 | $ | 205 | |||||||
| S&P 500 Stock Index | $ | 112 | $ | 136 | $ | 130 | $ | 171 | $ | 203 | |||||||
| Peer Group Index | $ | 126 | $ | 131 | $ | 121 | $ | 159 | $ | 175 |
| Comcast 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K | 32 |
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