Key Insights on Walt Disney for Stock Investors

By Blake Campbell • Thursday, November 14 10:21 • Permanent Link

With gains of 8.2%, Walt Disney was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $111.18 and have logged a -0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Walt Disney has moved 8.7% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 32.8%
DIS has an average analyst rating of buy and is 0.46% away from its mean target price of $110.67 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.61
Walt Disney has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 42.6 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $5.15 and its forward P/E ratio is 21.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.01 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Walt Disney is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.6 and an average P/B of 3.19
The company has a free cash flow of $8.27 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
The Walt Disney Company operates as an entertainment company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Entertainment, Sports, and Experiences. The company produces and distributes film and television video streaming content under the ABC Television Network, Disney, Freeform, FX, Fox, National Geographic, and Star brand television channels, as well as ABC television stations and A+E television networks; and produces original content under the ABC Signature, Disney Branded Television, FX Productions, Lucasfilm, Marvel, National Geographic Studios, Pixar, Searchlight Pictures, Twentieth Century Studios, 20th Television, and Walt Disney Pictures banners. It also offers direct-to-consumer streaming services through Disney+, Disney+ Hotstar, Hulu, and Star+; sports-related entertainment services through ESPN, ESPN on ABC, ESPN+ DTC, and Star; sale/licensing of film and episodic content to third-party television and VOD services; theatrical, home entertainment, and music distribution services; DVD and Blu-ray discs, electronic home video licenses, and VOD rental services; staging and licensing of live entertainment events; and post-production services. In addition, the company operates theme parks and resorts comprising Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, 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. It also licenses its intellectual property to a third party for operations of the Tokyo Disney Resort; licenses 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 company was founded in 1923 and is based in Burbank, California.

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