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Quote this valuation with its source: Fair value, Potential value and the price at analysis.
FAQ
DIS — frequently asked questions
Is The Walt Disney Company overvalued?
In our latest published analysis dated 2026-09-08, DIS looks meaningfully overvalued. The price recorded at analysis is USD 105 versus our fair value of USD 72.2; the high endpoint is presented separately as potential value of USD 108. That implies roughly 31.4% downside to fair value at that date.
Our latest published report, analyzed 2026-09-08, gives DIS a fair value of USD 72.2 and a potential value of USD 108. The conclusion is triangulated across multiple valuation models and weighted by reliability for The Walt Disney Company's archetype; it is a dated research output, not a live price.
Should I buy DIS now?
Our latest published rating for DIS, analyzed 2026-09-08, is Sell. The Walt Disney Company looks meaningfully overvalued at the analysis-date price of USD 105 versus fair value of USD 72.2; potential value is USD 108. This is research for educational purposes, not personalized investment advice.
What are the biggest risks for DIS?
The dedicated bear-case section in our report analyzed 2026-09-08 documents The Walt Disney Company's material risks, evidence, thresholds, and thesis-invalidation conditions. Scenario-specific explanations remain in that section so the report does not repeat or decontextualize them elsewhere.
What is DIS's rating?
Our latest published rating for DIS, analyzed 2026-09-08, is Sell, with a published moat assessment of 1/10 (None). It reflects our fair value of USD 72.2, the potential value of USD 108, and the price recorded at analysis (USD 105).
The clearest upside path is durable recurring-fee growth combined with lower capital intensity. That would release more cash for debt reduction and shareholder distributions.4,5
Cycle upside
Demand remains supportive if recurring fees hold, annual revenue estimates are met, and investment spending converts into earnings rather than permanent maintenance needs.1
Evidence-backed thesis
Sell because the report-date price exceeds Fair value while recurring-fee durability and investment returns remain unresolved.
हाउस सिफ़ारिश
Sell because the report-date price exceeds Fair value while recurring-fee durability and investment returns remain unresolved.
कंपनी का अवलोकन
ESPN offers a U.S. subscription-based DTC service with two plans: ESPN Select and ESPN Unlimited, which started in August 2025. ESPN Select, previously the ESPN+ service through August 2025, offers thousands of live sporting events, on-demand sports content and other original content. In addition, third-party suppliers provide products and services essential to the operation of a number of its businesses. WALT DISNEY CO/ maintains information necessary to conduct its businesses, including confidential and proprietary information as well as personal information regarding its customers and employees, in digital form. WALT DISNEY CO/ also uses computer and cloud-based systems to deliver its products and services and operate its businesses.
Such data and systems are subject to the risk of compromise and other cyberattacks, including unauthorized access, modification, exfiltration, destruction or denial of access, which also can result in disruptions in service. The following table presents revenues from its operating segments: The following table presents income from its operating segments and other components of income before income taxes:
§2 बेयर केसEN
The downside becomes operationally serious when weaker margins or earnings combine with higher required returns and persistent capital intensity.
This path gains support if regional weakness joins recurring-fee erosion and reduces consolidated fixed-cost absorption. It fades if FY2027 anchors hold and capital intensity improves.
इस थीसिस के टूटने के तरीक़े
Margin recovery reverses
A sustained normalized operating margin below 15.5% would show that competition and depreciation are overpowering recurring revenue.
FV impact
-7.4%
Operating margin 3 points lower throughout
Trigger
Within 36 months
Required returns rise
A cost of equity above 10.8215% would reduce what investors pay for future earnings while debt remains material.
निगरानी हेतु शीघ्र चेतावनी संकेत
वे पाँच घटनाक्रम जो हमारे निवेश तर्क को कमजोर करेंगे।
Weaker pricing and fixed-cost absorption would cut operating profit, earnings, and cash, undermining the recovered-margin premise despite recurring revenue scale.
वर्तमान:The forecast remains near 18.5% through FY2030.
चेतावनी यदिBelow 15.5% within 36 months.
02
§3 प्रतिस्पर्धी मोटEN
None
The evidence shows that subscription and affiliate fees are large, but it does not establish switching costs, network effects, protected assets, cost advantage, or efficient scale.
आर्थिक लाभ
Capex rose from FY2023 through FY2025. The key economic test is whether that spending produces future earnings and cash; the spending figures alone do not establish that result.4
1/ 10
None
मोट को ज्ञात खतरे
ख़तरा
गंभीरता
समयरेखा
शमन
Subscription and affiliate erosion could weaken a material disclosed product line and reduce fixed-cost absorption.
high
Over consecutive fiscal years
Admissions and advertising are other disclosed revenue lines, but their cited amounts do not show that they would offset recurring-fee weakness.5
A streaming peer tests subscription pricing, while telecom peers test affiliate distribution economics. Their differing growth and margins make them imperfect valuation substitutes.
high
Medium term
Competition should affect the outlook only when recurring-fee growth or operating margin deteriorates, not merely because peer valuations differ.
The highlighted cell is Fair value when every assumption sits at its base level ($72.19). Each row and column shows what Fair value becomes when one assumption moves.
Free cash flow to the firm stays positive in the first projected year at $12.0B after modeled reinvestment of $2.0B, with terminal value at 72.2% of enterprise value. A sudden drop in free cash flow is not projected unless capital spending relative to revenue, reinvestment, or gross margin resets materially.
Recurring-fee growth strengthens, margins remain resilient, and the investment build proves productive or temporary.4,5
§7 आय निर्णय वृक्षEN
बीट
Exit on strength; do not chase the release.
ट्रिगर: FY2027 adjusted EPS exceeds the high end of its cited range, revenue exceeds its post-event estimate, and capital intensity improves.1
A beat matters only if recurring-fee growth and margins improve while investment intensity eases.
इन-लाइन
Hold the current position and reassess after the next annual update.
ट्रिगर: Annual revenue and adjusted EPS remain within their estimate ranges.
Results within the annual revenue and adjusted EPS estimate ranges would leave the outlook broadly unchanged, especially because estimates were flat around the latest earnings event.
मिस
Exit remaining exposure if not already sold.
ट्रिगर: FY2027 adjusted diluted EPS falls below the low end of the cited analyst range.1
A miss would show weaker FY2027 earnings than analysts expect and reduce support for later sales, profit, and cash assumptions.
आय की गुणवत्ता
Debt of $46.04 billion on 2026-09-08 limits balance-sheet flexibility if earnings or cash weaken.3
घोषणा से पहले देखे जाने वाले मेट्रिक्स
01
मेट्रिक:
Cash funding capacity
वर्तमानFY2025 earnings improved while capex rose sharply.
यह क्यों मायने रखता है
Weak cash funding would restrict distributions, debt reduction, and investment.4
02
मेट्रिक:
Recurring-fee growth
वर्तमानFY2025 recurring-fee revenue remained material.
The central cash question is whether FY2025 investment spending produces lasting earnings or becomes recurring maintenance. Persistent spending would reduce cash available after operations.4
पूँजी आवंटन
Diluted shares declined from 1.831 billion in FY2024 to 1.811 billion in FY2025, but total debt remained $46.04 billion on 2026-09-08.
The Walt Disney Company (DIS) trades at 14.4x forward earnings against a peer median of 11.3x. Its EV/EBITDA of 10.9x compares with a peer median of 8.5x. The comparison uses 4 peers: AT&T Inc., T-Mobile US Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Netflix Inc., as of 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-08.
§10 उद्योग और चक्रEN
चक्र चरण
Expansion
Company capex rose from $4.97 billion in FY2023 to $8.02 billion in FY2025.4
बुल चक्र
Demand remains supportive if recurring fees hold, annual revenue estimates are met, and investment spending converts into earnings rather than permanent maintenance needs.
बेयर चक्र
The cycle weakens if subscription economics deteriorate while high investment spending persists. That combination would pressure revenue, margins, and cash together.
दीर्घकालिक रुझान
रुझान
प्रभाव
टिप्पणी
Demand-led entertainment cycle
neutral
Industry capex-to-revenue was negative 1.3% and capex-to-depreciation was 0.63 as of 2026-09-01. Capacity and lead-time evidence remains limited.
स्थिति
The Americas dominates disclosed revenue, while Europe and Asia Pacific remain meaningful. Regional amounts alone do not establish demand, currency, or margin transmission.5
§11 स्थिति प्रबंधनEN
साइज़िंग
Exit existing exposure; make no new allocation.. The report-date price exceeds Fair value, and the operating case depends on post-FY2027 assumptions and capital-spending normalization.4
जोखिम
Exit existing exposure while the report-date price remains above Fair value.
प्रवेश ट्रांच
स्तर
क्रिया
क्यों
At or below Fair value
Reassess, but do not initiate automatically.
Require stable recurring-fee growth, resilient margins, and lower capital intensity before changing the Sell stance.
Not every cited input appears here: internal calculations and intermediate model outputs have no external record, and some citations could not be matched to one.
A higher required return would make investors pay less for future earnings, while material debt limits balance-sheet flexibility during operating weakness.
वर्तमान:Moderate and strict rates were 9.7866% and 10.8215% on 2026-09-08.
A result below the estimate range would show weaker per-share earnings than analysts expect for FY2027, reducing support for the later sales, profit, and cash outlook.
वर्तमान:The mean estimate was $7.47, with a $7.09 low, on 2026-09-08.
चेतावनी यदिBelow $7.09 for FY2027.
04
Recurring-fee growth
Persistent contraction would reduce consolidated sales and fixed-cost absorption, pressuring operating margin, earnings, free cash flow, and distributions together.
वर्तमान:FY2025 subscription and affiliate revenue was $37.78 billion.
चेतावनी यदिBelow 0% for two consecutive fiscal years.
05
Capital spending intensity
Sustained capital intensity would absorb operating cash, raise future depreciation, and reduce funds available for debt reduction, dividends, and buybacks.
Limitation: Terminal value is 72.2% of this model's value, above the 60% level at which the methodology flags concentration; the value leans on the years beyond the explicit forecast.
Limitation: Terminal value is 71.1% of this model's value, above the 60% level at which the methodology flags concentration; the value leans on the years beyond the explicit forecast.
The constructive path persists when sales growth converts into earnings and cash without continued high reinvestment. A renewed capex step-up would disconfirm it.4
यह क्यों मायने रखता है
Contraction would lower revenue and fixed-cost absorption.5