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The company plans to divest itself of 274 of its retail stores to franchise owners. Most of Verizon’s layoffs would come from the retail-store divestiture.
U.S. telecom and media giants are moving in opposite directions in midday trading. Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) stock is up 7% to $24.76, while AT&T (NYSE:T) stock is down 5% to $21.52, and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) stock is down 7% to $43.29. The split reflects three distinct catalysts hitting the sector at once. Comcast is rallying on a ... Telecom Turmoil: Comcast Rises 7% on Media Spinoff, AT&T Falls 5% on CFO Exit and Starlink Threat, Verizon Sinks 7% on Dow Exit
Comcast will split into two publicly traded companies through a spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky, separating its cash-generating broadband arm from a media and entertainment business under pressure from streaming rivals and industry consolidation. The latest U.S. media industry shake-up follows years of cord-cutting as legacy players chase scale to better compete with Netflix while Paramount Skydance's $110 billion deal for Warner Bros Discovery is set to boost competition. Comcast, which leans on cable for much of its cash flow, is also losing broadband customers to fixed wireless offerings from T-Mobile and Verizon and to fiber rivals building out networks.
SpaceX's record-setting IPO has investors rushing into space stocks. From Rocket Lab to AST SpaceMobile, here's how to separate the durable winners from the hype in a fast-growing $1 trillion market.
Case in point: AST SpaceMobile Shares were up 1.4% in early trading Tuesday, while the was down 0.3%. An announcement by the company that three of its communications satellites were slated to head to the stars on June 17, aboard a SpaceX rocket, seems to have catalyzed the gains. AST is building a communications satellite constellation that will be used by Verizon Communications AT&T and others to improve wireless service on Earth.
What SpaceX’s Starlink is worth is for each investor to decide. How it works is easier to say. It’s remarkable.
The SpaceX initial public offering is one of a kind; the investment opportunity is not. SpaceX’s IPO is arguably the biggest capital-markets event ever, and unique. SpaceX’s singularity will continue when it starts trading, with the company added to the just 15 trading days after the offering, requiring passive buying of 10% to 15% of the shares outstanding, and a massive amount of retail participation in the IPO.
According to Reuters, SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) is gunning for an IPO date of Friday, June 12, with hopes to begin trading on the Nasdaq at $135 per share. This could launch the value of Elon Musk's private space operator to $2 trillion. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian lays out the most valuable segments of the space company that Wall Street is watching.
Noble Mobile plans to keep Helium’s low-cost cellular plans intact
Institutional capital is strategically rotating into mid-cap space logistics equities ahead of the highly anticipated initial public offering of SpaceX.
Starlink faces hurdles turning into a hybrid satellite-terrestrial wireless network operator. The SpaceX IPO has pressured telecom stocks.
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