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Part II
Item 5: Market For the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder
Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our Class A common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol CMCSA and our
Class A Special common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol CMCSK.
There is no established public trading market for our Class B common stock. Our Class B common stock can
be converted, on a share for share basis, into Class A or Class A Special common stock.
Our Board of Directors approved the following quarterly dividends.
Dividend Per Share
Month Declared 2011
January $ 0.1125
May 0.1125
July 0.1125
October 0.1125
Total $ 0.45
Dividend Per Share
Month Declared 2010
February $ 0.0945
May 0.0945
July 0.0945
October 0.0945
Total $ 0.378
In February 2012, our Board of Directors approved an increase of 44% to $0.65 per share on an annualized
basis and approved the first quarterly dividend of $0.1625 per share to be paid in April 2012. We expect to
continue to pay quarterly dividends, although each dividend is subject to approval by our Board of Directors.
Holders of our Class A common stock in the aggregate hold 66
2
⁄
3
% of the voting power of our capital stock.
The number of votes that each share of our Class A common stock has at any given time depends on the
number of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock then outstanding. Holders of shares
of our Class A Special common stock cannot vote in the election of directors or otherwise, except where
class voting is required by law. In that case, shares of our Class A Special common stock have the same
number of votes per share as shares of Class A common stock. Our Class B common stock has a 33
1
⁄
3
%
nondilutable voting interest, and each share of Class B common stock has 15 votes per share. Mr. Brian L.
Roberts beneficially owns all outstanding shares of our Class B common stock. Generally, including as to the
election of directors, holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock vote as one class except
where class voting is required by law.
Record holders as of December 31, 2011, are presented in the table below.
Stock Class
Record
Holders
Class A Common Stock 663,733
Class A Special Common Stock 1,898
Class B Common Stock 3
39 Comcast 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K