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Bulletin: Comcast Ratings Currently Unaffected By COVID-19 As Solid Cable Operations Overcome Weakness At NBCU And Sky

Bulletin: Comcast Ratings Currently Unaffected By COVID-19 As Solid Cable Operations Overcome Weakness At NBCU And Sky - S&P Global Ratings’ Credit Research
Bulletin: Comcast Ratings Currently Unaffected By COVID-19 As Solid Cable Operations Overcome Weakness At NBCU And Sky
Published May 04, 2020
3 pages (1631 words) — Published May 04, 2020
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NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) May 4, 2020--S&P Global Ratings believes that COVID-19 will affect every one of Comcast Corp.'s business segments to varying degrees. Both its NBCUniversal (NBCU) and Sky units could see material revenue and EBITDA declines and even its core cable operations could see some weakness. Still, our ratings on the company are currently unaffected under our base case of midyear virus containment and a recovery starting in the second half of 2020. This is based on our expectation for still-solid performance at its cable operations and healthy free cash flow generation. While adjusted leverage could rise modestly above our 3x threshold for the rating in 2020 due to a decline in consolidated EBITDA, we still expect

  
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S&P Global Ratings’ Credit Research. "Bulletin: Comcast Ratings Currently Unaffected By COVID-19 As Solid Cable Operations Overcome Weakness At NBCU And Sky" May 04, 2020. Alacra Store. May 15, 2025. <http://www.alacrastore.com/s-and-p-credit-research/Bulletin-Comcast-Ratings-Currently-Unaffected-By-COVID-19-As-Solid-Cable-Operations-Overcome-Weakness-At-NBCU-And-Sky-2423994>
  
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S&P Global Ratings’ Credit Research. (). Bulletin: Comcast Ratings Currently Unaffected By COVID-19 As Solid Cable Operations Overcome Weakness At NBCU And Sky May 04, 2020. New York, NY: Alacra Store. Retrieved May 15, 2025 from <http://www.alacrastore.com/s-and-p-credit-research/Bulletin-Comcast-Ratings-Currently-Unaffected-By-COVID-19-As-Solid-Cable-Operations-Overcome-Weakness-At-NBCU-And-Sky-2423994>
  
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