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Consumer advocate Clark Howard says autopay subscribers are funding a quiet price creep that most households never notice until the damage is done. Find out what your current bill actually says versus what you agreed to pay.
Charter Communications (CHTR) stock has now moved lower for 8 consecutive trading days, a cumulative loss of 20%. That streak has erased about $3.5 billion from the company's market value, which now stands at about $14 billion. For anyone holding the stock, the persistent selling has pushed the price to a new low for the year.
Comcast (CMCSA) shares sit about 43% below their two-year high, a price that looks like a bet the business is shrinking. Yet over the past twelve months Comcast generated nearly $18 billion of free cash flow, a yield of 22.2% on its market value against 4.5% for the median S&P 500 company. Which reading is right? It turns on a choice Comcast made more than a year ago: lower broadband prices to hold customers against new rivals.
Netflix (NFLX) stock trades near $71, about 43% below its high of the past year, and it lost 6.6% in the past week. The market did not fall with it: The S&P 500 returned 16.5% over the past twelve months. So without any shock at all, Netflix is already down more than its average fall in past market shocks. What would a real crash add.
Walt Disney is raising its streaming subscription prices for the second time in a year as it looks to focus on investing in content. The move comes at a notable time: The popularity of Meta Platform’s Muse has raised concerns that artificial-intelligence agents pose risks to companies that rely on recurring payments s if they help consumers cancel those payments from simple prompts. A Disney spokesperson confirmed the price changes to Barron’s on Wednesday.
A fat telecom yield in a taxable account quietly surrenders a chunk of itself to the IRS every single year, and the math looks very different once you line up these six tickers against the right account type.
Verizon Communications (VZ) trades at about 12 times earnings, against an S&P 500 median of 22.4. A discount that wide usually follows a collapse. Not here. The stock returned 14.1% over the past twelve months, behind the index's 17.9%, and management has raised parts of its 2026 guidance in two straight quarters. So is this a good business on sale or a fair price for a company that has stopped growing.
Walt Disney (DIS) owns theme parks and streaming services. The stock costs 21.8 times its earnings of the past year. The S&P 500 is at 22.6 times. So you pay less than the market for these businesses. That case only pays off if two things are both true. Disney's latest earnings call gave a reason to doubt the first. What did management say about ad prices.
Comcast (CMCSA) trades near $22, about 29% below its 52-week high, and the market has not been falling with it. The S&P 500 returned close to 18% over the past year, while Comcast lost about 21%. The company is in the middle of a broadband pivot that it says is holding its own results down. So the question is not how hard Comcast drops in a crisis. It is how long it stays down.
Comcast (CMCSA) closed at $22.42 in the latest trading session, marking a -2.22% move from the prior day.
AT&T (T) grows faster than Verizon, yet it trades at a far lower multiple of earnings. In its five-company peer group it ranks second on growth and margin but only third on its earnings multiple. Management calls that a disparity, and it has raised its buyback to take advantage of it.
Paramount Skydance (PSKY) stock is down 42% over the past year and trades about 47% below its 52-week high. Since 2010, its only rally of more than 30% inside two months came in 2025. The strongest case for another is Paramount+, where subscriber growth sped up between the first and second quarters of 2026, though management expects subscribers to stay relatively flat in the third. That case has to outlast a court fight over Warner Bros. Discovery.
With a current and rising yield of 5.8%, you're going to want to watch this space.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) stock gained about 55% from mid-September 2025 to mid-September 2026, while Disney, Netflix and Comcast all fell and the S&P 500 returned 17.3% including dividends. By August 2026 the company was under an agreed sale to Paramount Skydance. The buyer and the timing were never visible in advance. An openness to restructuring was, and management spent 2025 rebuilding the company to keep its options open.
Special deals helped boost attendance in Florida and California while traffic thins out at competitors Universal and SeaWorld.
Fastly (FSLY) is in focus after Comcast announced a content and application delivery partnership that will embed Fastly’s edge software into more than 200 AI powered data processing centers across its nationwide network. Fastly’s share price has moved sharply over the past year, with a 90 day share price return of 33.3% and a year to date share price return of 134.15%. The 1 year total shareholder return of 176.48% and 3 year total shareholder return of 28.97% point to building momentum...
Bond yields are racing higher as the U.S. Treasury and corporate issuers flood the market with new debt, and that shift is quietly rewriting the playbook for income investors. Cash-rich, high-dividend stocks in non-cyclical sectors can suddenly look more or less attractive depending on how they handle this funding squeeze. This article walks through 3 stocks exposed to these forces and shows where higher yields may help or hurt. The three stocks below are just a sample pulled from this idea,...
Today, Sept. 18, 2026, Wells Fargo cut its rating and price target, citing weaker engagement and content concerns, prompting investors to watch margin trends.
Verizon Communications (VZ) trades near $48 a share and generated free cash worth 10.0% of its market value over the last twelve months. The median S&P 500 company manages 4.5%. A gap that wide usually means one of two things: a bargain, or a business the market expects to shrink. Verizon is neither, quite. The cash is real, and it is not all yours.
T-Mobile US (TMUS) stock fell 5.6% on 17 September to about $166, the lowest it has traded in a year. One session is not the problem: over the past twelve months the stock returned -28.5% while the S&P 500 returned 17.0%, and the year is what matters. A rising market did not do that. What changed is inside the business, and part of it is deliberate.
Comcast generates substantial free cash flow and pays a reliable dividend. Disney is hitting records across parks, streaming, and the box office.
Walt Disney (DIS) has lost about 7% over the past twelve months while the S&P 500 gained 17%. Disney trades at 21.3 times earnings, just under an S&P 500 median of 22.5. The question is whether that is a good business on sale, or a fair price for a slow grower.
Broadcasters and tech giants are writing big checks to state officials, who have weighed in on mergers.
Interest rates are rising, but so are these healthy payouts.
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery long-awaited merger has been at a standstill. Barclays analysts led by Kannan Venkateshwar resumed coverage of both stocks, rating Warner Bros at Equal Weight with a $28 price target and Paramount at Underweight with a $8 price target. Venkateshwar said in a research note Thursday that while the proposed $110 billion merger could increase growth potential for the studios, it could introduce massive financial and operational risks that make the stock hard to value, and “a moving target.”
Netflix (NFLX) has fallen about 35% over the past year, while the S&P 500 returned about 17%. The complaint is simple. Sales growth is slowing, and management will not show the quality metrics it leans on. That case misses the engine under per-share earnings, a wider margin, and a shrinking share count.
AT&T (T) is up 4.4% over the last five trading days, while the S&P 500 is down 1.1%. Strength in a weak tape pulls money in. That five-day move is not the question. The question is what holding AT&T does to your money when the market moves, because over the past year it has tended to go the other way.
Comcast (CMCSA) generated free cash over the past twelve months worth 20.1% of its market value. The median S&P 500 company manages 4.4%. Part of that gap is Comcast's debt. The rest means one of two things: the market has made a mistake, or the cash is about to get smaller. Comcast keeps losing broadband customers, and that is the market's answer.
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