Quick Overview of Walt Disney

By Scott Lee • Thursday, September 07 12:03 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Walt Disney over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Film and Entertainment stock at a price of $79.83? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Walt Disney has moved -29.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.0%
DIS has an average analyst rating of buy and is -26.24% away from its mean target price of $108.23 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.2
Walt Disney has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 66.5 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $4.92 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.5 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Walt Disney is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.33 and an average P/B of 3.12
The company has a free cash flow of $5.5 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution; and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. The company engages in the film and episodic television content production and distribution activities, as well as operates television networks under the ABC, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, FX, Fox, National Geographic, and Star brands; and studios that produces films under the Walt Disney Pictures, Twentieth Century Studios, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Searchlight Pictures banners. It also offers direct-to-consumer streaming services through Disney+, Disney+ Hotstar, ESPN+, Hulu, and Star+; sale/licensing of film and television content to third-party television and subscription video-on-demand services; theatrical, home entertainment, and music distribution services; staging and licensing of live entertainment events; and post-production services by Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. In addition, the company operates theme parks and resorts, such as Walt Disney World Resort in Florida; Disneyland Resort in California; Disneyland Paris; Hong Kong Disneyland Resort; and Shanghai Disney Resort; Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club, National Geographic Expeditions, and Adventures by Disney, as well as Aulani, a Disney resort and spa in Hawaii. Further, it licenses its intellectual property to a third party for the operations of the Tokyo Disney Resort; provides consumer products, including licensing of trade names, characters, visual, literary, and other IP for use on merchandise, published materials, and games; operates a direct-to-home satellite distribution platform; sells branded merchandise through retail, online, and wholesale businesses; and develops and publishes books, comic books, and magazines. The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 and is based in Burbank, California.

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