"Comcast's cable segment knocked the cover off the ball," analyst Craig Moffett, a critic of the company's bids to acquire 21st Century Fox and Sky TV, said on Thursday. "They beat on broadband — that's what everyone has been worried about — and they beat on [operating] margins." Moffett added that "cable is doing really well, and yet Comcast is doing its level best to become something other than a cable company."