Brokerage Firm Rating Update on Walt Disney Company (The) (DIS)

During its last trading session, Stock traded with the total exchanged volume of 8.4 million shares. Covering sell-side analysts now have a consensus stock rating of 2.52 on shares of Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS). The Bid price in the last session was $93.85 x 200 and the Ask price was $93.90 x 400. CA now owns 4,221 shares of the entertainment giant’s stock valued at $413,000 after buying an additional 250 shares during the period.

For the current week, the company shares have a recommendation consensus of Buy. The Company has 52-week high of $120.65 and 52-week low of $86.25.

August 24, 2016 – The Walt Disney Company (DIS) Continuing efforts to provide more ways to buy and watch your favorite Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars movies at home or on the go, Disney Movies Anywhere announces the addition of Fios by Verizon, the first multichannel video programming distributor to join its cloud-based digital movie service platform. The difference between the expected and actual EPS was $0.01/share, which represents an Earnings surprise of 0.6%.

Analysts and investors also tend to be super focused when a company reports earnings results.

Many analysts are providing their Estimated Earnings analysis for Walt Disney Company (The) and for the current quarter 31 analysts have projected that the stock could give an Average Earnings estimate of $1.19/share. For the past 5 years, the company’s revenue has grown 1.8%, while the company’s earnings per share has grown 5.6%.

27 number of analysts also provided their insight on Walt Disney Company (The), where the Average Price Target for the stock is $109.52.

Financial Times reported that The 23 analysts offering 12 month price targets for Target Corporation have a median target of 75.00, with a high estimate of 87.00 and a low estimate of 64.00.

According to ZACKS data, different Brokerage Firms rated the stock about their BUY, SELL or HOLD recommendations. P/E is 16.94 and forward P/E is 15.51. The company has its Price to Sales (P/S) ratio of 2.69 where Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.44, Price to Cash Per share (P/C) of 28.79 and Price to Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) has a value of 22.45. It maintained return on assets (ROA) for the last twelve months at 48.31%. Company gross margin stands at 93.40% whereas its return on investment (ROI) is -43.80%.

United States of America based company, The Walt Disney Company’s (DIS)’s latest closing price distance was -5.67% from the average-price of 200 days while it maintained a distance from the 50 Day Moving Average at -3.12% and -2.30% compared with the 20 Day Moving Average. A look on the firm performance, its monthly performance is -2.12% and a quarterly performance of -3.93%. Performance year to date since the 1/2/1962 is -9.49%. The stock’s weekly volatility was 0.90% and the RSI amounts to 26.32.

The Walt Disney Company, incorporated on July 28, 1995, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a diversified worldwide family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. (YTD performance is the most important factor to consider; if YTD is negative, the stock is declining; if the YTD Performance value is Positive the stock is surging).