{"id":2155145,"date":"2025-11-13T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2155145"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:54:16","slug":"disney-earnings-overreaction-to-spots-of-weakness-that-have-little-consequence-for-future-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/disney-earnings-overreaction-to-spots-of-weakness-that-have-little-consequence-for-future-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Earnings: Overreaction to Spots of Weakness That Have Little Consequence for Future Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article\"><link itemprop=\"publisher\" href=\"#morningstar\"\/> <meta itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" content=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/stocks\/disney-earnings-overreaction-spots-weakness-that-have-little-consequence-future-growth\"\/> <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"story__related-container__mdc\">\n<p>Securities in This Article<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody text\" class=\"mdc-story-body__mdc mdc-story-body--large__mdc story__body__mdc\">\n<h2 id=\"key-morningstar-metrics-for-walt-disney\" class=\"mdc-heading__mdc mdc-heading--level-4__mdc mdc-heading--bold__mdc mdc-story-body__header__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">Key Morningstar Metrics for Walt Disney<\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"what-we-thought-of-walt-disneys-earnings\" class=\"mdc-heading__mdc mdc-heading--level-4__mdc mdc-heading--bold__mdc mdc-story-body__header__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">What We Thought of Walt Disney\u2019s Earnings<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">Walt Disney <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/stocks\/xnys\/dis\/quote\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\">DIS<\/a> stock fell substantially after the firm reported a 0.5% year-over-year decline in fiscal fourth-quarter revenue. The weakness was entirely in linear entertainment networks and theatrical films. Results in parks and experiences, streaming, and sports were encouraging, as is the 2026 outlook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\"><b class=\"mdc-story-body__bold__mdc\">Why it matters:<\/b> Linear entertainment networks are becoming inconsequential, and theatrical sales depend on film release schedules and success, which last year had <i class=\"mdc-story-body__italic__mdc\">Inside Out 2<\/i> and <i class=\"mdc-story-body__italic__mdc\">Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/i>. Quarterly choppiness is expected and not indicative of business health or prospects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\"><b class=\"mdc-story-body__bold__mdc\">The bottom line:<\/b> We maintain our $120 per share fair value estimate and believe the selloff makes Disney\u2019s stock attractive. The critical pieces to our valuation are continuing strength in experiences\u2014the most important component underpinning our wide moat rating\u2014and streaming. Results in both areas were good.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mdc-story-body__ad mdc-story-body__ad__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\"> <\/aside>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\"><b class=\"mdc-story-body__bold__mdc\">Coming up:<\/b> Disney has two new cruise ships launching in fiscal 2026. Cruise demand remains high, and domestic parks bookings for 2026 are up 3%. We believe the experiences assets will drive durable long-term segment growth, which is most critical to Disney\u2019s financials.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mdc-story-list__mdc mdc-story-list--unordered__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">\n<li>Fourth-quarter experiences sales grew 6% year over year, while operating income grew twice as fast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\"><b class=\"mdc-story-body__bold__mdc\">Key stats:<\/b> Fourth-quarter streaming entertainment sales (excluding ESPN) were up 8% year over year (10% organically). The 8.5 million Hulu net additions were mostly due to the inclusion of Hulu access for Charter pay TV subscribers at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mdc-story-list__mdc mdc-story-list--unordered__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">\n<li>Disney+ organically added 4 million subscribers, including 2.5 million internationally, where management is targeting more content investment. Also encouraging, 80% of ESPN streaming subscribers are taking the bundle with Disney+ and Hulu.<\/li>\n<li>Disney\u2019s ability to bundle entirely with its own platforms, plus its willingness to bundle with others, contributes to our view that its streaming services will remain winners as the television industry continues to evolve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" class=\"mdc-story-embed__frame__mdc\" style=\"height:650px;width:800px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story__editors-note__mdc\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEditor\u2019s Note: This analysis was originally published as a stock note by Morningstar Equity Research.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <\/p>\n<p class=\"story__disclosure__mdc\"><span>The author or authors do not own shares in any securities mentioned in this article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFind out about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/editorial-policy\" tabindex=\"0\" itemprop=\"publishingPrinciples\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\">Morningstar\u2019s editorial policies<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<aside class=\"story__social-share-container__mdc\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.morningstar.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securities in This Article Key Morningstar Metrics for Walt Disney What We Thought of Walt Disney\u2019s Earnings Walt Disney DIS stock fell substantially after the firm reported a 0.5% year-over-year decline in fiscal fourth-quarter revenue. The weakness was entirely in linear entertainment networks and theatrical films. Results in parks and experiences, streaming, and sports were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2155146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Disney-Earnings-Overreaction-to-Spots-of-Weakness-That-Have-Little.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155147,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155145\/revisions\/2155147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}