Needham analyst Laura Martin reiterated a Buy rating for Walt Disney Co DIS with a $110 price target.
Disney is reportedly eliminating 300 corporate jobs this week — the latest round in a broad cost-cutting initiative by Chief Executive Bob Iger.
Disney+ has laid out how its password sharing crackdown – or what streamers calls “paid sharing” – will unspool and what subscribers can expect.
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The Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery bundle shows promising early results. Linear Networks currently offer higher margins than streaming. The challenge is the amount of streaming business needed to replace the declining Linear profits long term.
Disney just started paying dividends again earlier in 2024 after a four-year pause. The company's payout is roughly half of what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
After closing lower for five straight months, Disney is trading higher so far in September. Disney's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report arrives in early November.
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Disney's stock performance has been disappointing, but its operations remain fundamentally strong. Despite criticism and "Go woke, go broke" claims, Disney's diversified portfolio continues to perform well, with significant box office success and stable streaming market share. Disney's content pipeline, including sequels to strong franchises, looks promising, and investments in park attractions and cruise ships are strategically sound.
Disney's streaming business has been a drag on profits for most of its life, but that may be changing. Its entertainment streaming segment reported a profit in the fiscal third quarter -- for the first time.
Disney has revealed that at the height of the dispute between actors, writers and Hollywood studios last year, it filed official documents which wrongly claimed it was considering offering employees shares in the production companies behind its movies.
An agonizing decline for the pay-TV business will likely get even worse in the coming years. Media analyst Tim Nollen thinks Disney's plan to protect its TV business will hurt cable.