Technically speaking could Disney fold? Or have to merge with another company like WB?
Technically speaking could Disney fold? Or have to merge with another company like WB?
Technically speaking could Disney fold? Or have to merge with another company like WB?
>you're full of debt so merge with a company with even more debt
Nah, they need way more debt than that if they want to crash the entire country economy.
They are "too big to fail" they already own half of all broadcast media and contribute an enormous amount of tourism dollars to several States. Not to mention they are one of the Tribe, they will get free money from the Fed to "protect important American institutions"
don't forget a major figure on the S&P, which almost anyone with any money at all is invested in.
The government likes stability and isn't exactly shy about BBBRRRRRRRRRRRRing companies into solvency
>The government likes stability
If that were true they wouldn't have tripled the money supply over 3 years.
ESG doesn’t mean free money.
You need to work on your reading comprehension
Disney doesn't make games, why would Epic Games Store give them money?
They'll be bought by Apple when their stock falls below 20 bucks per share
All of the big 5 companies are hundreds of billions in debt. They're going to eventually fold no matter how many buyouts and mergers they use to delay the inevitable.
I don't think they would be allowed to merge, as they are too public and too well known and the monopoly would be too obvious for people to ignore. They would be forced to chop up assets and sell piecemeal.
But they will probably just stay alive with your tax dollars instead, while using them to shovel more shit into your living room.
I'm just waiting for the day these big companies fold and they have to sell off the thousands of IPs they never use to finally start paying back what they owe.
It's going to be the world's biggest garage sale and I might pick up a few myself.
I find it unlikely. They've had dud years and weak eras in the past, and with some of the stuff they've announced for next year (especially the Inside Out sequel) they're gonna make at least SOME profit.
A company that big is going to have a very hard time going away. It'd be like finding out tomorrow Coca Cola is going out of business.
Every part of their business is failing though.
moron
It should be illegal for a company to function after they get so far in debt especially after making so many projects that make the debt even worse.
At that point, productions should stop and they should start selling to resolve the debt. It's fricking ridiculous this and the others are allowed to function with being hundreds of billions in debt, and it's going to reach a point where the debt becomes a trillion.
Disney didn't buy Twitter. It's fine.
But twitter is doing fine. You're even talking about it.
stfu Elon
I really hope to see the day when Disney finally goes bankrupt for good.
They've been poisoning the entertainment industry for so long.
It's going to happen to all the big ones in the next 10 years.
Then who would fill the niche?
Smaller companies in bigger numbers. The big 5 will be a relic of the past.
Somehow I doubt we're ever going back to that level of decentralization
>who would feel the niche
Shueisha as always
The Steamboat Willie effect will revive them, it will kindle an interest in their old cartoons and incentivize them to make new ones.
The mouse wouldn't fold but they would sell upwards. The only path upwards though is a big tech who is deeply invested in media like Apple or Amazon. So things would get significantly worse for everyone even if they got by regulatory hurdles (The European Union in particular wouldn't be especially fond of giving a streamer so much power and would likely want a divestment of Disney streaming rights to regional European broadcasters which might cool off Apple or Amazon on the deal)
The other option that some investors have really tried to push Iger on was a merger with a company of around the same value as Disney and the big company they had earmarked for that was Electronic Arts because investors believed Disney should make a bigger play for the video game market and EA would be an exceptional "value add" to ESPN with their sports content. Iger poo-pooed it because he's not interested in the video game market beyond licencing (You should see the revenue Disney got from Sony for Spider-Man from the insomniac leaks. They got Sony over a barrel with a third of all revenue for that game going to Disney). But the expectation is that Iger's circling the drain and the next CEO might be brought in who's a bit more tech savvy and wants Disney to compete more in tech based markets like video games. And with the current clown show at the FTC. They'd probably get away with a merge with EA as well.
Disney will not disappear into the ether, but it can definitely be bought, merged, or split up into several companies. Disney simply has too much equity built up. They have the luxury of failing for a while.
This is why Disney's stock has remained around $90 despite the string of bad news for every aspect of its business. A merger, takeover, or split could all potentially bump the stock up by 50% or more.
It's very far away from that point. Give it a few more years.