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The Walt Disney Company
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
Lower valuation, weak fundamentals
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2 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
Disney's valuation sits well below the sector median on both P/B and EV/EBITDA, yet the discount does not reflect a business in decline — rather, a mature media company caught between two forces. Earnings per share grew 151.8% year over year, outpacing the sector median 2.1% by +7,188%, and the F-Score of 7/9 signals stable profitability and controlled leverage. The tension lies in cash generation: free cash flow growth -3.1% trails the sector median 35.2% by -109%, and the current ratio 0.71 runs below the median 1.00, suggesting tighter near-term liquidity. The company beat consensus earnings in the last quarter, and analysts model continued growth, yet the realized cash-conversion picture lags the earnings narrative. At these multiples, Disney prices in modest expansion rather than a turnaround — a fair read for a legacy franchise managing steady profit amid structural headwinds in linear media.
| 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.
Revenue and margins in the next quarterly 10-Q will show whether the profitability signals in the F-Score hold. Re-run the DIS analysis once it is published.
The full DIS annual report on SEC EDGAR has the risk factors, the management discussion (MD&A), and the disclosures that numbers alone do not capture.
The same-sector table, where available, is an alphabetical sample with no ranking. Pick 2-3 companies yourself and line up P/E, margin, and F-Score: a single number only means something in its industry context.
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 | 6/9 | 22% | -0% | 17% |
| DIS | The Walt Disney Company | 7/9 | 12% | +3% | 19% |
| FOXA | Fox Corporation | 5/9 | 15% | +5% | — |
| GOOGL | Alphabet | 5/9 | 36% | +15% | 32% |
| META | Meta Platforms | 4/9 | 30% | +22% | 41% |
| NFLX | Netflix | 6/9 | 43% | +16% | 29% |
| NWSA | News Corporation | 4/9 | 7% | +7% | — |
| 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 | 5/9 | 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.