🏰 Disney's Mixed Bag of Surprises
🏰 Disney's Mixed Bag of Surprises
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🏰 Disney's Mixed Report
Disney surprised investors by delivering an adjusted profit per share, even after its most lucrative business segments took a massive hit due to the pandemic.
What Happened? Disney announced an unexpected adjusted profit per share in its fiscal Q3 earnings report. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the company’s high performing businesses, namely the studio films, media networks, and theme parks. Disney predicted a continued slump in the current quarter owing to the pandemic, which took a $3B toll on the company’s operating income.
Some key numbers:
Revenue: $11.78B against $12.39B expected.
Adjusted earnings per share: 8 cents profit against an expected 63 cents loss per share.
Disney’s parks, products, and experience segments were the most impacted in the last quarter. The company suffered an operating loss of $1.96B, down 147% from the same time last year. The company struggled with global lockdowns, reduced attendance, and halting of cruise ships.
Disney’s movie business – Studio Entertainment – saw a 55% drop in revenue and a 16% drop in operating income. Disney Media Networks – the company’s largest segment – reported revenue of $6.6B, a 2% drop from the year before. However, it recorded an operating income of $3.2B with 48% Y-o-Y growth, thanks to delayed costs of rights and programming for MLB and NBA.
Disney+, the company’s streaming service, missed the bus on subscriber growth expectations. The platform reported 57.5M subscribers in total, falling well short of expected 59.4M as Q3 ended on June 27. However, CEO Bob Chapek, during the earnings call, said the streaming platform has 60.5M subscribers as of Monday (August 3) and will expand to Latin America by November. The direct-to-consumer segment posted a marginal 2% growth in revenue to $3.97B.
Market Reaction: Disney’s stock price closed 0.81% higher at $117.29. The stock has rallied about 6.5% in pre-market trading.
Disney Snapshot
DIS $117.29 +0.94 (+0.81%)
Analyst Rating (25 Ratings) BUY 52% HOLD 48% SELL 0%
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