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Category: Stock Market, Walt Disney and Netflix
Date: 15 September 2019 We take a look at the stock price history of Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) the newest entrant into the online streaming market and compare it to online streaming giant, Netflix.
Note all chart date was obtained from Macrotrends.net |
About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: Media Networks; Parks, Experiences and Products; Studio Entertainment; and Direct-to-Consumer and International.
Media Networks is the primary unit of The Walt Disney Company that contains the company’s vast array of television networks, cable channels, associated production and distribution companies, and owned and operated television stations across two divisions – Walt Disney Television and ESPN.
Parks, Experiences and Products is the global hub that brings Disney’s stories, characters, and franchises to life through theme parks and resorts, cruise and vacation experiences, and consumer products—everything from toys to apparel, and books to video games.
For over 90 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built. Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. (Studios include Pixar- known for their animation movies) and Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox and LucasFilms (Star wars movies)
Media Networks is the primary unit of The Walt Disney Company that contains the company’s vast array of television networks, cable channels, associated production and distribution companies, and owned and operated television stations across two divisions – Walt Disney Television and ESPN.
Parks, Experiences and Products is the global hub that brings Disney’s stories, characters, and franchises to life through theme parks and resorts, cruise and vacation experiences, and consumer products—everything from toys to apparel, and books to video games.
For over 90 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built. Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. (Studios include Pixar- known for their animation movies) and Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox and LucasFilms (Star wars movies)
About Netflix
Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with over 151 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.
The comparison of Walt Disney vs Netflix
The graphic below shows the stock price history of Netflix over the last 6 months. As soon as users click on Disney in the top left of the graphic the graphic adds Disney to the chart and instead of showing the stock price history it shows the stock price return of both Netflix and Disney over the last 6 months.
Users can input their own dates or select one of our preselected zoom dates. The graphic shows the stock price return from the start of the period selected at the top of the graphic.
Over the last month the stocks offered the following returns:
Over the last 6 months the stocks offered the following returns:
Year to date (YTD) the stocks offered the following returns:
Users can input their own dates or select one of our preselected zoom dates. The graphic shows the stock price return from the start of the period selected at the top of the graphic.
Over the last month the stocks offered the following returns:
- Disney: 3.07%
- Netflix: -0.5%
Over the last 6 months the stocks offered the following returns:
- Disney: 27.04%
- Netflix: -18.5%
Year to date (YTD) the stocks offered the following returns:
- Disney: 25.44%
- Netflix: -1.15%
So over the shorter time periods such as 1 month, 6 months and year to date the stock price of Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) has outperformed its streaming rival Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), however over the longer term such as 5 years the returns offered by Netflix is far greater than that of Walt Disney.
Over the last 5 years Netflix and Disney offered stockholders the following returns.
So while Disney has offered stockholders the better returns over the short term, its Netflix that has provided stockholders with the far greater returns over the last 5 years.
- Netflix: 356.37%
- Walt Disney: 54.44%
So while Disney has offered stockholders the better returns over the short term, its Netflix that has provided stockholders with the far greater returns over the last 5 years.