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Disney Falls Apart – Darlinez News.

<p> &lbrack;ad&lowbar;1&rsqb;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content column content primary is-two-thirds">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"" style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon; 10px&semi;">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"">&NewLine;<p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"tag is-dark is-uppercase">Media<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"byline-container">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"post-date is-italic has-text-grey is-size-7 has-text-weight-medium ">&NewLine;<p>December 20&comma; 2022 9&colon;30 am<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Shares of Walt Disney Co&period; &lpar;NYSE&colon; DIS&rpar; have collapsed to a 52-week low&period; There were two reasons&period; The first is that the new movie&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Avatar&colon; The Way of Water&comma;” will not become the most successful movie in history as its 2009 predecessor was&period; Investors found the shortfall in ticket revenue worrisome enough to sell the stock off in another sign of despair about Disney’s future&period; The second reason for the anxiety is that it has become clear quickly that hero CEO Bob Iger&comma; who helped build Disney into the most successful entertainment company in the world&comma; does not have an ounce of magic that might turn around Disney’s crippled operations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new Avatar film was supposed to have domestic ticket sales as high as &dollar;179 million&comma; some analysis estimated&period; Sales weighed in at &dollar;134 million&period; Disney’s most steady earnings engine over the past decades has been studio revenue&period; This is because of the franchises it bought when it paid tens of billions of dollars for Pixar&comma; Marvel and Star Wars&period; The success of movies drawn from these franchises may have peaked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Disney’s most troubling disaster is its streaming business&comma; which lost &dollar;1&period;5 billion last quarter&period; The blame for this belongs to Iger&comma; who underpriced Disney&plus; when it was launched in 2019&period; Disney’s solution has been to raise monthly subscription prices and even offer an ad-supported service&period; It remains to be seen if it sells enough advertising to compensate for the lower subscription costs&period; The sharp increase in the price of the traditional service has been pushed up enough to cause churn&period; Churn is the enemy of streaming companies&period; Subscribers cancel&comma; and it is expensive to replace them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<section id&equals;"email-subscribe" class&equals;"section section-email-sub single-email-sub"><&excl;-- div&period;svg-icon --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"container">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"subscribe-message" style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;3&semi;">&NewLine;<p>Get Our Free Investment Newsletter<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<p>Disney has to compete with Netflix&comma; Amazon and a small army of other streaming services&period; Among these is Apple&comma; which may have the world’s strongest balance sheet of any public corporation&period; It also has a base of billions of iPhone&comma; iPad and Mac owners to which it can market its streamed content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"recirc recirc-text">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;ALSO READ&colon; The Best War Movies of All Time<br &sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;strong>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Is the drop in Disney stock over&quest; Most likely it is not&period; Disney’s next quarterly report may be as grim as the last one&period; And a recession could hit movie ticket sales&comma; streaming income and visits to its massive theme parks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"smartasset" style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 1em&semi; margin-top&colon; 1em&semi;">&NewLine;<p><b>Sponsored&colon; Tips for Investing<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A financial advisor can help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of investment properties&period; 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