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News Josh D’Amaro Named Next CEO of The Walt Disney Company

Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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JoeCamel said:
The simplistic answer to stock buybacks is that the board and C suite own a lot of stock, they are in contact with funds and equity firms that hold lots and lots more so buying back stock increases their holding's value directly while debt is not a bad thing to have. It allows you to be flexible in where you deploy your capital. Dumping debt will strengthen the balance sheet but the cost of the debt has to be weighed against potential returns it can generate.
The name of the game is please the stockholders and line your own pockets along the way
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Great description…

Or if you want to go Simple: it’s cooking your books
 
JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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Dranth

Dranth

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MR.Dis said:
I am not overly savvy when it comes to corporate finances. The quarterly earnings report included a tidbit of Disney buying back some 7 million shares. So why do that rather than retire some of their 11 billion in debt? I am sure there is an answer, could someone on this forum advise me on the why?
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I am sure someone more into finance could give a better answer but, they don't have enough debt for a company of their size to be worrisome. At least currently. I also think the money they do owe was borrowed at really low rates which helps.

Personally I think they are one of the worst uses of company money, but stock buybacks benefit stock holders so tend to be popular with companies these days.
 
Jambo Dad

Jambo Dad

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Dranth said:
I am sure someone more into finance could give a better answer but, they don't have enough debt for a company of their size to be worrisome. At least currently. I also think the money they do owe was borrowed at really low rates which helps.

Personally I think they are one of the worst uses of company money, but stock buybacks benefit stock holders so tend to be popular with companies these days.
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Yes it is. They can inflate their ROI without doing anything constructive.
 
JD80

JD80

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variety.com

Disney Board Chairman Says Succession Plan Was ‘Done Cleanly’ in Unanimous Vote for Josh D’Amaro

Disney board chair James Gorman says CEO selection was 'done cleanly' and asserts that company is 'extremely undervalued' in Q&A with Variety.
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Guess the park. Disneyland @mattpeto ?
 
mattpeto

mattpeto

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JD80 said:
variety.com

Disney Board Chairman Says Succession Plan Was ‘Done Cleanly’ in Unanimous Vote for Josh D’Amaro

Disney board chair James Gorman says CEO selection was 'done cleanly' and asserts that company is 'extremely undervalued' in Q&A with Variety.
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Guess the park. Disneyland @mattpeto ?
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Shanghai and I believe Paris will be getting new gates at some point, but I still think Disneyland Forward will be Anaheim's final opportunity for a 3rd gate and they will pull the trigger on it.
 
el_super

el_super

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Disneyland will not have a third gate. There is no way to make that work financially when the second gate is still struggling when not combined with the first.
 
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

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HauntedPirate said:
Shanghai - $5.5B
DCA re-do
2x Galaxy’s Edge ($1 billion each)
Pandora
New Fantasyland
Dream/Fantasy ($1.5 billion combined)
HKDL - $1.4B
Aulani - $800M

That is roughly $12 billion. I’m sure there are other things that add up to $30 billion… right? NextGen? DVC resorts? Do we know how much was spent on WDI research trips to Louisiana?
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I would say you'd have to account for inflation to see how that would stack up to the current 30 billion goal for WDW, but that spending is also going to be spread out over likely a decade, so I guess this is a good comparison. Though I'd imagine material and labor costs have gone up in a way that doesn't match inflation. I'm not an economist so I have no idea lol
 
TarzanForever

TarzanForever

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el_super said:
Disneyland will not have a third gate. There is no way to make that work financially when the second gate is still struggling when not combined with the first.
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Well that would be the case if it wasn’t already been blueprinted and sketched out. There are multiple renditions out there readily available for consumption. The 3rd gate is and will be confirmed and now we just wait to see if it’s also villians or encanto shaped but not formed.
 
Captain Barbossa

Captain Barbossa

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TarzanForever said:
Well that would be the case if it wasn’t already been blueprinted and sketched out. There are multiple renditions out there readily available for consumption. The 3rd gate is and will be confirmed and now we just wait to see if it’s also villians or encanto shaped but not formed.
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I can confirm this is all correct. One thing I found of interest in the blueprints is this new gate will have a It’s Tough to Be a Bug! attraction. The question is will it be a clone of the one in AK or will they close it in AK and move it to Cali? If it’s the later, then that would open up the Tree of Life theater for the proposed Zootopia show that was shelved. I fear the final days of ITtBaB! are drawing near. I highly recommend that people experience the show while it’s still at AK.

Thanks for returning to these forums. We’ve been nothing but blind, hopeless wanderers without your scholarly, academia based insight.
 

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