Netflix stock is up 13% in 2025 – lagging the S&P 500's 17.1% return, according to Google Finance.
CNN wasn't included in Netflix's $82.7 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery—a move that, at first, might look like a glaring snub.
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) went from mailing DVDs in red envelopes to dominating global streaming.
Taking over Hollywood's biggest studio would transform the streaming giant's business model, at a steep price.
As Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock stumbles in the short term in reaction to the Warner Bros. acquisition, Wall Street is largely confident the stock is likely to rally over the next 12 months.
Netflix's announced Warner Bros. Discovery deal is the latest example of the company changing course.
Netflix Inc. agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., marking a seismic shift in the entertainment business as a Silicon Valley-bred streaming giant swallows one of Hollywood's oldest and most revered studios.
Piece by piece, Netflix has disrupted a more-than-century-old industry. Now it's buying some of Hollywood's most iconic properties.
What started as a fact-finding mission for Netflix culminated in one of the biggest media deals in the last decade and one that stands to reshape the global entertainment business landscape, people with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters.
Warner Bros Discovery has agreed to sell its iconic studio and streaming assets to Netflix for $72 billion, in a move that will reshape Hollywood by creating a vertically integrated media powerhouse.
Hollywood unions and theater owners on Friday sounded the alarm over Netflix's proposed $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, warning the deal would cut jobs, concentrate power and reduce theatrical movie releases if the deal passes regulatory review.
Simon Gallagher, SPG Global managing director and former Hulu/Netflix exec, says Warner would be exponentially more valuable inside Netflix. He tells “The Close” that Warner Bros.