News Chapek FIRED, Iger New CEO

Lilofan

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Notes from Neverland

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Disney's stock only looks 'bad' when you compare it to that high. But that high was an anomaly that came from investors dumping money into Disney shares when it looked like Disney's survival of the pandemic was a sure thing and not a danger of major loss (as was the case with other businesses). Since then, that high has come down right to where the Dow average is for all Dow stocks. In that context, it's doing just fine. But compare it to a one-time blip of a high, and you can paint it as it being horrible. And for day-traders, it is. But for people who hold onto stock as a long term investment, Disney is a blue chip.

The same deal with its D+ subs. Disney shot thru it's five year goal in the first year of existence. They finally revised their 2024 goal to be much higher at 230-260M subs. But with Chapek recently saying that the current growth has a slight slow down of only a single digit percentage increase instead of a double digit, that caused *one* analyst to downgrade their Dis Stock recommendation because in his calculation, Disney+ won't hit the 256M subs he was predicting but *only* 236M subs. -- which is still in Disney's own predictive goal. But, because it's less than what he was expecting, then all of a sudden, he writes about the tragedy of Disney stock. And yet, in the end, says it could still turn out at the high end of the goal. :rolleyes:

Click-bait be click-bait. Analysts have the churn out articles for their clients/readers.

History of D+ growth:

The panicked 'analyst':

A rosier analyst...
While all of that is true, you may be giving the average investor too much credit. Some only want the dividend and won't be happy until it returns.
 

Disone

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The Eisner situation involved a revolt from a Disney family member who served on the BoD. There's no one like that on the current Disney board.

Also, there were serious declines in parts of Disney's business, like the animation department -- it was not making nearly as much money as it made in the 1990s. I think there was an attendance decrease at the parks too, although that was mainly due to 9/11.

Eisner would not have been pushed out if everything at Disney was churning along smoothly.
100%. There is no one on the board of directors but there has been a massive decline in attendance, for Eisner it was 9/11 and the recession and for Bob Cheapenit it's the pandemic.

Bob like eisner is vulnerable right now. All he needs is a catalyst like Roy to propel this. And it could happen. Who will play the role of Rolly this time if anyone at all is really the question.
 

Lilofan

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100%. There is no one on the board of directors but there has been a massive decline in attendance, for Eisner it was 9/11 and the recession and for Bob Cheapenit it's the pandemic.

Bob like eisner is vulnerable right now. All he needs is a catalyst like Roy to propel this. And it could happen. Who will play the role of Rolly this time if anyone at all is really the question.
No one that comes to mind at this point and has the nerve like Roy to take on Eisner like he did. Roy Disney was fearless with his Save Disney campaign including the shareholder revolt in the mid 2000s.
 
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MrPromey

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This is not exactly true. There was no decrease in attendance or decline in Revenue involved in Michael Eisner's Fall From Grace.

Right now there is a major decrease in attendance and a major decline in Revenue that absolutely can be blamed on the pandemic but none the less leaves the current CEO vunerable.
What's that you say about the pandemic being to blame?

 

Touchdown

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

One company opened their world class roller coaster attraction on time, essentially returned to normal operations with all of their entertainment returning.

To woo back guests this company offered discounts and greatly expanded their Halloween event turning it into a dining event with a ton of really nice food options.

Another company dragged their feet on bringing back their entertainment and still doesn’t have over half of it back. This same company delayed the opening of a clone of a ten year old ride by 3 months and only opened it with a convoluted boarding group lottery in the hope this annoyance would cause guests to pay extra to skip it even though the ride doesn’t need it.

This company scaled back their major anniversary and refused to offer discounts when they couldn’t fill rooms. They also canceled their wildly popular Halloween event for a cheaper version to operate that only lightly celebrated the season, thinking their customers value riding that parks rides with low waits over special seasonal entertainment.

Finally, this company continues to restrict the movement of their guests to their parks with arbitrary rules like no changing parks until 2pm, in the name of efficiency. Then can’t comprehend why it’s park currently half under construction that opens 1 hour later then any other parks isn’t meeting it’s sales goal for its food event, not realizing that it’s blocked most of their paying customers from buying said food as they prevent you from going for the lunchtime hour.

The market is speaking, and your customers are voting with their feet, Mr Chapek will you listen?
 

Tha Realest

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I think the shareholder dynamics are vastly different now. Eisner, and the Bass Brothers, were huge shareholders of the company. Iger is too - he may be the largest individual owning shares of the company - but his stake amounts to 0.06% of all shares. I don't know what comparative amount Eisner or those others had, but the sense from Disney War was it was a sizeable portion.
 

MrPromey

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

One company opened their world class roller coaster attraction on time, essentially returned to normal operations with all of their entertainment returning.

To woo back guests this company offered discounts and greatly expanded their Halloween event turning it into a dining event with a ton of really nice food options.

Another company dragged their feet on bringing back their entertainment and still doesn’t have over half of it back. This same company delayed the opening of a clone of a ten year old ride by 3 months and only opened it with a convoluted boarding group lottery in the hope this annoyance would cause guests to pay extra to skip it even though the ride doesn’t need it.

This company scaled back their major anniversary and refused to offer discounts when they couldn’t fill rooms. They also canceled their wildly popular Halloween event for a cheaper version to operate that only lightly celebrated the season, thinking their customers value riding that parks rides with low waits over special seasonal entertainment.

Finally, this company continues to restrict the movement of their guests to their parks with arbitrary rules like no changing parks until 2pm, in the name of efficiency. Then can’t comprehend why it’s park currently half under construction that opens 1 hour later then any other parks isn’t meeting it’s sales goal for its food event, not realizing that it’s blocked most of their paying customers from buying said food as they prevent you from going for the lunchtime hour.

The market is speaking, and your customers are voting with their feet, Mr Chapek will you listen?
And this is why Universal just posted their best quarter ever for their Florida resort - not just the best since the pandemic but the best since opening.

What's Disney's excuse, again?
 

John park hopper

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But but but Look at all I have done for the guests --No trams, Gene+ then promptly raised prices, made cuts to the parade, Went hog wild on the 50th anniversary (not), projects not completed, cut housekeeping, 50 dollar preferred parking at MK and raised resort prices. I'm doing all I can I just don't understand why Universal is doing so well. I just want people to like me
 
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fgmnt

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And this is why Universal just posted their best quarter ever for their Florida resort - not just the best since the pandemic but the best since opening.

What's Disney's excuse, again?

I think it's still true that company management doesn't or shouldn't really concern themselves with information like this, but it feels like that attitude can't last much longer.
 

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