Comcast shares jump after announcement to split into two publicly traded companies
The cable and media group said it plans to restructure into a pair of stand-alone public companies, drawing an immediate market reaction.
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The cable and media group said it plans to restructure into a pair of stand-alone public companies, drawing an immediate market reaction.
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The cable and media company said it intends to reorganize through a tax-free spinoff involving NBCUniversal and Sky, setting up a new corporate structure that investors are responding to.
Comcast said it plans to separate its businesses into a technology-focused company and a media company, with a tax-free spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky expected to create standalone operations.
The proposed restructuring would put NBCUniversal and Sky into a new public company, leaving Comcast’s remaining operations centered on connectivity and network services.
The media-and-telecom group said it will separate its entertainment assets from its connectivity business in what it describes as a tax-free spinoff, creating two stand-alone companies for investors to value separately.
Market participants appeared to reward Comcast’s strategy shift, sending the stock toward its strongest single-day move in more than a decade as investors focused on the company’s stated intent to restructure.
The company says it will separate its cash-generating cable internet operations from a new media-led company that will include NBCUniversal and Sky, moving toward a pair of publicly traded firms.
A plan under discussion would reorganize Comcast into two publicly traded entities through a spin-off of NBCUniversal and a separate listing tied to Sky, the Yahoo Finance report said.
The company said it intends to create two independent public companies through a tax-free spin-off that would group NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone media business.