WDW daily $$ take...

[redfive13]

I've always wondered what does WDW (all parks, resorts, merch, DTD, kiosks, parking, etc...) take in financially on an average day. Anyone know?

 

[12_Ears_Dad]

I don't have specifics on just WDW, But all their parks in the world included(11 in all) the daily revenue is roughly $123,000,00

 

[Chef Mickey]

Based on their 2014 Annual Report, Parks and Resorts did $12.3b in revenues and $2.66b in EBIT.

They don't break down WDW from the $2.66b. If you look at that per day, it's $7.2M across all parks and resports in the US. I'd guess over half is WDW, so my guess is around $4m/day at WDW in operating PROFIT (before taxes). Their EBIT is only about 20%, so that means if they are making $4m/day at WDW in EBIT, they are doing about $20M/day in sales.

Interestingly, per day guest spend was $275. - Per room guest spending consists of the average daily hotel room rate as well as guest spending on food, beverage and merchandise at the hotels. Hotel statistics include rentals of Disney Vacation Club units. That doesn't include park tickets, food spend at parks, tickets, etc.

 

[Chef Mickey]

I don't have specifics on just WDW, But all their parks in the world included(11 in all) the daily revenue is roughly $123,000,00

That isn't even close to accurate for parks and resorts only. That figure is more like their daily revenue for their entire business combined as Disney as a whole did $49b in sales in 2014. That would be an average of $134,000,000 in revenue/day.

But remember, WDW as a whole is much bigger than parks and resorts. ESPN, ABC, Studios (Movies), Consumer Products, and Web are businesses that don't roll up to Parks and Resorts.

 

[12_Ears_Dad]

That isn't even close to accurate for parks and resorts only. That figure is more like their daily revenue for their entire business combined as Disney as a whole did $49b in sales in 2014. That would be an average of $134,000,000 in revenue/day.


But remember, WDW as a whole is much bigger than parks and resorts. ESPN, ABC, Studios (Movies), Consumer Products, and Web are businesses that don't roll up to Parks and Resorts.

I stated in my post it was for all 11 parks.... and it was a Forbes article so I don't have reason to doubt it

 

[Chef Mickey]

I stated in my post it was for all 11 parks.... and it was a Forbes article so I don't have reason to doubt it

11 parks is not their entire business. You either misunderstood the Forbes article or the Forbes article is wrong. Parks and resorts does not make $123,000,000/day in sales. It's mathematically impossible and I'm looking at their 2014 annual report right now. 123M*365 days = $45b/yr. Their TOTAL sales at all businesses in 2014 was $49b.

Parks and resorts TOTAL in 2014 did $15b in revenue, which is $41M/day across all parks/resorts. My parks resorts number above does NOT include international which is only $2.77b.

 

[12_Ears_Dad]

K. Maybe I misunderstood

 

[Chef Mickey]

Remember, sales are a lot different than profit. WDW company did $49b in sales in 2014, but net cold hard cash after all expenses, interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization was only $7.5b. Parks and resorts worldwide only accounted for about $2b in profit.

Think about that. Across the world, they only made $2b in profit. That means all parks/resorts only made about $5M/day in profit. Doesn't seem like that much given the scale of operation.

 

[redfive13]

Wow, thanks for detailed info! Thats some serious daily intake!

 

[Ralphlaw]

Actually it's $5,480,000 in profit per day, which ain't bad. By contrast, I wonder how much the cruise line and the Adventures by Disney bring in.

 

[ParentsOf4]

In its 10K filing with the SEC, Disney reports "Admission, Food, and Beverage" and "Admission" sales for its combined theme parks (both in the U.S. and internationally). In 2014, these numbers were $4.5 billion and $5.1 billion, for a world-wide total of $9.6 billion. As it's single biggest source of revenue, WDW's 4 theme parks and 2 water parks generate the lion's share of this revenue.

Beyond these numbers, which lump Disney's "Domestic" and "International" Parks & Resorts (P&R) business together, Disney reports other numbers that are specific to domestic operations (primarily WDW, DLR, and DCL).

Domestic "Per Room Guest Spending" represents the amount spent per room occupied by a paying customer. Disney also reports domestic "Available Room Nights" and hotel occupancy rates. WDW has about 89% of Disney's domestic hotel inventory. Multiplying these numbers together produces a figure of approximately $2.1 billion in annual revenue at WDW's hotels and timeshares.

Taken together, WDW generates more than half of the $12.3 billion of the domestic P&R revenue reported in 2014. A reasonable guess for all of WDW's operations would be $7-8 billion per year.

For WDW, this works out to about $19-22 million per day in revenue.

 

[CP_alum08]

I would guess any more that the majority of sales happen electronically, either by credit card, room keys, magic bands, etc. but there still has to be some cash right? Anyone know how/where the cash is stored? I swear I'm not planning an elaborate heist

 

[JIMINYCR]

All I know is that I go with plenty of money to do all I want to do.
By the time I leave...

and it's time to work my butt off to save for the next time. Yes... I help to keep Disney rolling along.

 

[DisneyJunkie]

Regardless of however much it is......they still have more than enough money to do what NEEDS to be done, namely link all the parks (in Florida) by monorail.

 

[asianway]

I would guess any more that the majority of sales happen electronically, either by credit card, room keys, magic bands, etc. but there still has to be some cash right? Anyone know how/where the cash is stored? I swear I'm not planning an elaborate heist

They use armored cars that pick up by location-there's no money bin

 

[Ralphlaw]

I don't think there's a huge cry for park to park monorails, but instead resort to park monorails. Personally, I'd rather see potential new monorail money going to attractions instead. I can tolerate the busses if each park got more attractions. The Magic Kingdom monorail and Epcot monorail give me a sufficient monorail fix every year. It's just not worth the 9 or 10 figure cost to add on, in my opinion.

 

[Chef Mickey]

Adding something like park to park monorails would again be WDW management focusing on the wrong things.

They need to improve what is already there. Get everything running 100%. Great maintenance and operations.

THEN worry about expansion and additions.

THEN worry about icing on the cake items like monorail expansion.