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The Walt Disney Company
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
Weak signals across every dimension
1 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Stable quality
1 signal unavailable
Profitability
4/4
Debt & liquidity
2/3
Efficiency
1/2
Ranked highest against the sector: ev/ebitda: 73% below the median (33.3×). The Walt Disney Company operates in the Communication Services sector; its F-Score for the latest cycle is 7/9 (Stable quality). The archetype for the latest cycle reads Stable business, lower valuation, and the composite of 56/100 frames where the company sits against its sector. Among the key figures, the P/E is 15.3× against a sector median of 31.4×, revenue moved 3.4% year over year, operating margin was 18.6%, and ROE was 11.8% against a median of 18.2%. Free cash flow for the latest fiscal year came to $10.1B, net debt to $35.3B, and market cap to $170.7B. The figures rest on 10-K/10-Q filings from SEC EDGAR; the full read, with all twelve percentile metrics, is on the methodology page.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHTR | Charter Communications | 5/9 | 32% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
The market prices in earnings growth; analyst sentiment is strengthening; has mostly beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
Disney's FCF growth sits 146% below the sector median at 36.7%, a material weakness despite solid EPS expansion of 15.7%. When the August report lands, focus on operating cash flow and capital expenditure trends—whether streaming infrastructure investments are finally moderating and whether parks cash generation remains resilient.
The F-Score of 7/9 masks efficiency concerns (1/2 on that component). Pull the latest 10-K from SEC EDGAR and examine management's discussion of streaming losses, content spending, and the path to profitability in that segment. Cross-check the leverage ratio (2/3)—debt levels relative to operating cash flow matter when FCF growth lags peers.
Disney trades at an EV/EBITDA of 33.3× and P/B of 9.04×, both well below sector medians. Pick two or three peers from the alphabetical table in section 06 and line up the same multiples against their profitability scores. This will show whether the discount reflects genuine weakness or a pricing opportunity relative to quality.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: +75%+18%
Over 4 years: 2.311.891.54
Over 4 years: +3%+3%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 8 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| -1% |
| 24% |
| CMCSA | Comcast | 5/9 | 22% | -0% | 17% |
| DIS | The Walt Disney Company | 7/9 | 12% | +3% | 19% |
| EA | Electronic Arts | 5/9 | 13% | +1% | 15% |
| FOXA | Fox Corporation | 7/9 | 20% | +17% | — |
| GOOGL | Alphabet | 5/9 | 36% | +15% | 32% |
| META | Meta Platforms | 4/9 | 30% | +22% | 41% |
| NFLX | Netflix | 6/9 | 43% | +16% | 29% |
| OMC | Omnicom | 3/9 | -1% | +10% | 3% |
| T | AT&T | 6/9 | 18% | +3% | 19% |
| TMUS | T-Mobile | 6/9 | 18% | +8% | 21% |
| TTWO | Take-Two Interactive | 7/9 | -11% | +18% | -2% |
| VZ | Verizon | 6/9 | 17% | +3% | 21% |
A sample of 13 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.