Star Wars not so popular or changes already being made?

[WildcatDen]

Star Wars is a failure. I don't know why they keep making those films and merchandise

I know, right. I just received the Target Holiday toy ad in the mail yesterday. Both Darth and Elsa were on the cover. Definitely two dead franchises. In side there were only two full pages on Star Wars.

No other Franchise had more than one page (Marvel had 1 page while DC took in about a quarter of a page).

Interestingly enough, not a single thing for Potter or Wizarding World merchandise. Of course, Pandora was not represented either. . .

 

[ford91exploder]

Not like you can compare the $30 to $132 a share like it means something...Share price means absolutely nothing. BRK.A trades at $215,000 per share while aapl trades at $118. AAPL is still twice as valuable.

CSCO is a mature, 30 year old, dividend paying hardware company with some services that trades about 15 times earnings. Nothing wrong with that...they are actually about 3X more profitable profitable than FB.

FB is a new, growing company that just had an IPO about 4 years ago.

Although FB trades at a premium (around 70 times earnings), its business model is also quite prone to irrelevancy over time. Companies with low barriers to entry like FB do leave themselves open to the new website of the day. All they do is sell advertising and collect data.

It's much harder to build Disney World, for example than build a website.

If I could take 1 business over the other, I'd still rather own CSCO over FB for the long haul.

As would I

The overall point was take a look at how Wall St values capital intensive companies over companies which have effectively no capital needs, Take a look at Twitter at one time it's market cap was 38 billion, Yet Twitter has never turned a profit nor does it have a model which allows it to be monetized. Wall St overvalues companies which are set up to be rent seeking and undervalues companies who require capital investment to create their products and services.

 

[raymusiccity]

I know, right. I just received the Target Holiday toy ad in the mail yesterday. Both Darth and Elsa were on the cover. Definitely two dead franchises. In side there were only two full pages on Star Wars.

No other Franchise had more than one page (Marvel had 1 page while DC took in about a quarter of a page).

Interestingly enough, not a single thing for Potter or Wizarding World merchandise. Of course, Pandora was not represented either. . .

...."and the beat goes on". The most recent issues of USA Today and EW, proclaim Rogue One as this year's most anticipated film! Not too shabby. I'd chalk up any negative comments about 'not so popular' as desperate and transparent trolling.

 

[21stamps]

...."and the beat goes on". The most recent issues of USA Today and EW, proclaim Rogue One as this year's most anticipated film! Not too shabby. I'd chalk up any negative comments about 'not so popular' as desperate and transparent trolling.

It's one thing to not like something. It's a completely different ballgame to ignore every bit of provable data and declare something a failure just because "you" don't like it.

 

[Ripken10]

...."and the beat goes on". The most recent issues of USA Today and EW, proclaim Rogue One as this year's most anticipated film! Not too shabby. I'd chalk up any negative comments about 'not so popular' as desperate and transparent trolling.

Never have I seen so many people agree on these boards. Such a small minority not in your line of thoughts. We need more threads like this...