Disney Analyst
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Your facts don’t fit their agenda.
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News The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors Extends Robert A. Iger’s Contract as CEO Through 2026
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Your facts don’t fit their agenda.
TheIceBaron
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He probably had to sign ironclad non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses to keep his golden parachute.
Let’s just ignore how he grew it and what he has done with those assets.
His facts are cherry picked to fit his agenda.
'Secret Invasion' was a flaming hot pile of garbage. Worst Marvel series I've watched (but I haven't watched Ms. Marvel, so maybe that could supplant it as the worst). Mando's most recent season was ok but it's slipping. Haven't watched Loki season 2 (yet) or Ahsoka.
Since you are a good cherry picker you forget to mention that Netflix dominated the top 30 on this list. When you have almost nothing worth watching on your streaming service it would make sense that the viewership numbers are more concentrated.
If you were a shareholder for the last 20 years you would be laughing all the way to the bank.
TheIceBaron
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Is Disney’s streaming ratings really the best metric of success? Technically Disney had a lot of top grossing movies in 2023, but against the backdrop of bloated production and marketing budgets, the studios weren’t actually profitable. I think the only success story they have had since Covid is the parks and cruise line.
Stripes
Premium Member
Iger made a number of successful acquisitions and successfully integrated them into a company that was widely regarded as a dinosaur when he took over. For instance, he purchased the talent at Pixar and successfully used that talent to reinvigorate Walt Disney Animation Studios, which was producing Atlantis, Home on the Range, and Chicken Little.
And while Iger is widely praised for his acquisitions, some of which were essentially dormant or directionless when Disney bought them, his execution and leadership across the company far surpasses the value of those acquisitions.
As just one example, before Iger took over, Disney was churning out DCA 1.0, WDSP, and HKDL. After Iger took over, they invested $1.1 billion in the midst of a massive recession in turning around DCA. And again, execution was fantastic, and the park is now very successful.
TheIceBaron
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Actually if you were a shareholder of Disney in the last 20 years you would be kicking yourself for not investing in most big tech stocks which had leaps and bounds better returns than DIS
Netflix has been able to sell ads at a slightly higher price than rivals by leveraging the pent-up demand from advertisers who had been waiting for its ad tier for years, Insider Intelligence analyst Ross Benes said.
"Because viewers tend to spend more time per day with Netflix than with other streaming services, Netflix's ad revenues are poised to grow significantly," Benes said, adding that "Disney is struggling more right now because they have had all these box office bombs."
"Because viewers tend to spend more time per day with Netflix than with other streaming services, Netflix's ad revenues are poised to grow significantly," Benes said, adding that "Disney is struggling more right now because they have had all these box office bombs."
TalkingHead
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What was their methodology to arrive at those results? I find it hard to believe an Apple title is #3.
Jrb1979
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For fans of the parks he hasn't been good at all. WDW is still lacking in enough attractions and basically has since your King got hired. Its time to boot him and all of Burbank and get someone who understands the parks. Not someone who looks at them as place for the plebs to go.
One word - "diversify" and don't pull all eggs in one basket.
Unless you are good at picking baskets.
That's sometimes called insider trading for the ones who do not get caught.
Tha Realest
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That part of the problem. Talking. And what little we know of it, it seems to have been greatly dialed back from the original plans.
They don’t seem to have this paralysis when it comes to DVC, cruise ships, or residential living experiences. Why is that?
JD80
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Why do you have to be weird by calling Iger someone's King?
el_super
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This is never going to happen. Even if a CEO "understood" the parks in the same way you think that means, the actions taken toward the parks and the company has a whole are dictated by hundreds, if not thousands of people all trying to achieve bigger overarching goals (like returning shareholder value).
Case in point: one time the company announced they were going to spend 60 billion dollars on parks, and the fans kept asking that the CEO get replaced. Really weird.
I know this is personal info but I would like to make an assumption about you.
I’m going to guess that you have zero debt.
Would you say that’s accurate ?
I only ask because I always like to know what the influence was.
Was it someone like Ramsey or maybe you read the Millionaire Next Door.
I know you didn’t learn it in school, so it’s fun to find out how you educated yourself.