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The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS) is a global entertainment company operating through three segments: Entertainment, Sports, and Experiences.
The company’s stock traded at approximately $109.24 per share 10 years ago. If you had invested $10,000, you could have bought roughly 92 shares. Currently, shares trade at $109.81, meaning your investment’s value could have grown to $10,052 from stock price appreciation alone. However, Walt Disney also paid dividends during these 10 years.
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Walt Disney’s dividend yield is currently 0.94%. Over the last 10 years, it has paid about $9.71 in dividends per share, which means you could have made $889 from dividends alone.
Summing up $10,052 and $889, we end up with the final value of your investment, which is $10,941. This is how much you could have made if you had invested $10,000 in Walt Disney stock 10 years ago. This means a total return of 9.41%. However, this figure is significantly less than the S&P 500 total return for the same period, which was 231%.
Walt Disney has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a price target of $124.25 based on the ratings of 29 analysts. The price target implies more than 13% potential upside from the current stock price.
On May 7, the company announced its Q2 2025 earnings, posting revenues of $23.62 billion, above the analyst consensus of $23.14 billion, driven by its Entertainment and Experiences businesses. Adjusted EPS of $1.45 beat the analyst consensus of $1.20, as reported by Benzinga.
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Disney’s experiences division benefited from visitors to parks in California and Florida, holiday package sales, and the launch of the Disney Treasure ship in December. The entertainment division also benefited from recent price hikes across the company’s streaming services, including Disney+ and Hulu.
For its full-year 2025, Disney projected an adjusted EPS of $5.75, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.44.
Check out this article by Benzinga for seven analysts’ insights on Disney.
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