Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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So, I think the overall health of the average consumer very strong
We have six, right? And that's an incredibly powerful place to be, and we're going to continue investing to drive all six, whether we get every one of them right, I don't know, but we get most of them right, and that's going to be a very good outcome for this company
So, the totality of that is a really strong formula
They still allow for strong free cash flow, growing free cash flow where we can buy back shares and return a lot of capital to shareholders
Stock had a solid year
So, I think we are -- it's a tough comparison relative to 2023, given all the success we had, but we have an incredible slate coming to 2024 that we're happy about
Jason Armstrong It's -- obviously, we did -- we're incredibly happy with how we did in the box office last year
2023, a really good year for Comcast
So, to answer your question, we've seen a ton of demand on the Olympics side, I think we're very happy with where it's shaping up
So good healthy growth
And a lot of benefits in that from sports performance in the fourth quarter, whether it was Sunday Night Football performing really well
And then we've got a -- as you think about the success of the slate, and the ability for that to continue to be a driver as it makes its way into different windows and ends up on Peacock, that's been an incredible driver for us as well
So, I think a really strong year as it relates to sort of the how do we look at the forward progress and the forward outlook
So that's been incredibly favorable
And we were late to the area that's why we sort of trough later, but now we've just seen incredible momentum in a 3.5-year time frame
The streaming world for us is all those things plus Pay-One movies where we've been extremely successful in the last year and the studios, all that's making its way in
That's usually a very positive event because you're stalling a little bit ahead of a lot of pent-up demand and then you release the pent-up demand
By the way, 4% ARPU growth is $1.2 billion in incremental revenue, high-margin revenue across the company
Underlying momentum is great
And we've got distinct and sort of logical advantages in selling into our base
So, the underlying momentum was very strong in the last couple of years
So really strong cash flow and prospects coming out of a It's a business where we have an addressable market, sort of started with small business
Those have been incredibly successful for us
And we're 10 against that with a really good product that competes really, really well
We're very bullish on parks, as you can tell, probably not a surprise to you
So, the businesses that are growing broadband business services, wireless on the connectivity side, in particular, first to very strong and accretive margins relative to the overall base
You can see it through our lens that there's other wireless companies that would say that is a very good business
So, broadband did incredibly well
So, I can see it through their lens that it's very good business
We feel really good about the parks business
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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World Cup was a comparison challenge for us
So, despite kind of those three things, which were headwinds on free cash flow and earnings
And so, with ACP, I think like anything, hope for the best in a continuation, but I think you have to plan for the worst, which is going away and there's disruption
We have really lacked, and we've talked about this, whether it's move activity or other factors, we've lacked jump balls in the industry for the past several years
But obviously, you're going to see some challenges to this
Streaming has proven to be challenging economically, at least
It similar to parks, there was a disruptive moment on the pandemic when you've got theaters closed and real uncertainty in the creative community around sort of what the future looks like
So, if we look back to 2017 -- the last six-plus years, we are down in truck rolls by 50%
That's down 40% in the same time frame again against a bigger base of customer relationships
That was a really difficult comparison for a few years period
As I mentioned, we're only 3.5 years in on Peacock, were 31 million subscribers, $10 ARPU, high engagement, churn coming down
But there were also strikes six months of delays
I think when I look at your business, it seems to us that '23 might be the -- or is the trough year for segment EBITDA in the media -- for the media segment, particularly as Peacock starts to scale
In particular, when you think about wireless, when the conversation around fixed wireless changes, and it's not some cost and excess capacity
We had three straight Olympics that were time zone challenges and pandemic, two out of the three pandemic challenge
That seems tough
That's a little bit more of a headwind than it has been in the past
That's not a good place to be
As I mentioned, it's a competitive environment
And I'd point out that was despite a super competitive environment broadband, probably the most competitive environment long time, despite taking on peak streaming losses in Peacock
   

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