It’s not often you get to be first at something in Hollywood, but the Walt Disney Studios just became the first ever studio to reach the $7 billion threshold at the global box office. The $290 million global debut for “Rogue One: A Star Wars… Read More »Walt Disney Studios sets global box office record crossing $7 billion
The Walt Disney Company is pretty much the definition of a far-flung company. It has outlets in every corner of the world, fingers in every part of the media pie, and does retail, themeparks, and other forms of travel like no one else. But when… Read More »Mars Buried, Box Office Avenged, and Parks Resurgent mean 3rd Quarter Profits for Disney
If you haven’t noticed already it’s earnings day in the world of Disney. Euro Disney SCA and Tokyo Disneyland just came out with their 3rd Quarter earnings reports and this afternoon the Walt Disney Company did too. Even though we’re experiencing economic “turbulent” times, according… Read More »Walt Disney Company Reports 3rd Quarter Profit
Yesterday the Walt Disney Company announced its second quarter profit report. (FYI, DIS FYE is October.) Yeah, profit declined a bit, 1.2%, for the whole company. But all in all revenue is up and expenses should be rising as the company attempts to restart its… Read More »Disney Announces 2nd Quarter Results
Yesterday we saw mixed messages from stock analysts on the earnings potential of the Walt Disney Company of the rest of the year. One analyst is eating a bit of crow after predicting that Pixar’s UP would tank. He graciously admitted his bad in the… Read More »Analysts Mixed on Disney’s Potential
The Walt Disney Company shared results from its first quarter (actually 4th quarter 08 calendar speaking) and profits dropped 32 percent. That and some other shaky news has caused shares to slide which has me itching to do one thing. Buy some Disney stock. Alas,… Read More »Disney posts drop in profits, gloomy outlook looms
Disney released it’s second quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wall Street today. The results look good for the mouse house with movies (led by Enchanted, Hannah Montana, and National Treasure 2) and theme parks (not affected by the slow economy yet) leading the… Read More »Disney Beats Wall Street Estimates, profits up
The Walt Disney Company announced significantly increased earnings for 4th quarter 2007 as well as the year as a whole. For the year, earnings per share (profit divided by shares outstanding) grew from $1.64 in ’06 to $2.25 in ’07. This included one times benefits from the sale of E! Entertainment and Us Weekly. Excluding… Read More »Increased Earnings for 2007