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While reporting mixed second quarter earnings results, it's Netflix's (NFLX) disappointing third quarter outlook that's dragging the stock lower on Friday. BofA Securities senior media & entertainment analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich addresses whether an acquisition is still on the table for the streaming giant after losing out on its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).

With the stock out of favor, investors are focused on slowing sales growth, but they may be missing the more powerful story of how efficiently Netflix is compounding profit per share.

Comcast has been quietly contemplating acquiring a 33-year-old telecom competitor as it continues to struggle with customer losses in its cable TV and internet business. The company lost 322,000 cable TV customers and 65,000 internet customers in the first quarter of 2026 as it faces growing ...

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Top Netflix executives who gathered for its annual business review this spring had a lot to be cheerful about. At the time, it was a small part of a conversation about the company’s goals, but it has since become a frequent topic of discussion at meetings, people familiar with the matter said. Engagement, which measures how long people spend watching content and how frequently they finish a movie or series, is the holy grail in modern Hollywood.

Netflix didn't end up acquiring Warner Bros. earlier this year, but there may be another great opportunity for it to consider now that Comcast is breaking up.

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Comcast's Sky has agreed to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain's ITV for £1.6 billion ($2.13 billion), creating a British champion with the scale to compete with global players like Netflix, Amazon ‌and Disney. Sky CEO Dana Strong said the deal, announced on Monday and confirming a recent Reuters story, was a "defining moment", ‌one of the biggest in the history of British broadcasting. The combination of Britain's biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster and the pay-TV ​company Sky would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, but the rise of YouTube and the streaming giants, has left traditional companies exposed.

Possible deals include a merger of Comcast with Charter Communications, the No. 2 cable and broadband company, or an NBC Universal deal with Netflix.

Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts spent his career building an integrated cable giant. To grow, he now plans to split it apart.

Investing.com - Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) shares are trading up 3.8% at $74.14 on Wednesday, rebounding from near their 52-week low after The Wall Street Journal walked back speculation that the streaming giant was lining up a bid for NBCUniversal following Comcast Corp's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced spinoff.

Comcast is set to announce its second-quarter results this month, with analysts forecasting double-digit decline in its bottom-line figure.

Comcast's spinning off NBCUniversal could set them up to pursue future deals even if there aren't any deals on the table yet.

NBCU has shown interest in companies like Electronic Arts in the past and currently has a deal with Nintendo around the Super Mario Bros. franchise.

Big "vertical," synergistic-seeking media mergers are officially no longer a thing now that Comcast has decided to break apart the company. Again.

When Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts decided a few weeks ago to pursue a spinoff for the company’s media and entertainment business, there was just one question: Who would run the cable and broadband operations that remained? “This industry has been kind of in my blood for a long time,” Angelakis said in an interview. In bringing back Angelakis, Roberts, 67 years old, is picking an executive steeped in cable and broadband who is part of a small circle of trusted advisers, said people close to both men.

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Nearly two decades ago, Comcast bet that the future belonged to companies that owned both the pipes delivering entertainment and the shows themselves...

The case for bundling media with distribution has weakened in the streaming era, but further M&A makes less sense.

The planned spinoff of NBCU is another step in a long-running realignment of the media and entertainment industry’s power structure.

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Nobody saw this coming. Not Wall Street. Not Hollywood. And almost certainly not Netflix or Disney. On June 29, Comcast announced it would spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate, publicly traded company through a tax-free transaction. After more than 15 years as a single company, the cable ...

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NBCUniversal is eyeing opportunities in digital gaming and new entertainment franchises as the company weighs options for future growth after its planned spinoff from Comcast, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter. Comcast’s cable and connectivity business, meanwhile, is ripe for technological investments that ‌could take advantage of the massive surge in data centers and AI, these people said. No tie-ups have been discussed, and any potential deal would not happen until a period ‌of time following the split, the people said.

📣 “So where previously we believed that the scale and diversification benefits warranted operating these businesses as one company, we now have simply changed our mind about that.” --Comcast's Mike Cavanagh ...

Comcast’s action immediately prompted speculation that more deals could be coming in the consolidating media business.

Comcast's NBCUniversal said on Monday that its ‌streaming service Peacock's Premium Plus ‌tier is now available for subscription through ​YouTube Primetime Channels, expanding access to its content library. Here are some details: • The move allows subscribers to ‌view a ⁠wide range of Peacock offerings directly within the YouTube ⁠platform, including live sports, popular NBC and Bravo series, original programming ​and Universal ​films. It ​follows a broader ‌agreement between NBCUniversal and Google that was announced in late 2025.

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA, XETRA:CTP2) shares rose more than 6% on Monday after the company announced plans to separate its businesses into two independent, publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky. Under the proposed transaction, Comcast...

Comcast's decision to spin off its NBCUniversal and Sky businesses marks the latest ‌effort by a major U.S. entertainment company to ‌separate or reshape legacy television assets as cord-cutting accelerates and streaming ​upends the industry. The move follows years of sweeping strategic overhauls across the sector, with companies pursuing mergers, breakups, asset sales and lowered spending to sharpen focus and compete ‌more effectively in ⁠an increasingly digital media landscape.