Buy Disney

Purchase Date: October 13th, 2017

Purchase Price:  Call Option Expiring Jan 2020 for $95, trading price was $97 at time of purchase.

Current Price: [stock_ticker symbols=”DIS” show=”name” number_format=”dc” decimals=”2″ static=”1″ speed=”10″ class=””]

Why We Like Disney

Disney (NYSE: DIS) has incredible brands that can simply never disappear. Let’s run through a few:

  • Pixar
  • Marvel
  • LucasArts
  • ABC
  • ESPN (we’ll get to that)

Disney is trading at a price to forward earnings of 15x, while the rest of the S&P 500 is over 19.

Why is it trading at such a discount? Their media revenue is plummeting due to cord cutting, and ESPN is the main perpetrator.

But let’s suppose that media went out of business tomorrow – Disney made $6 billion in revenue from media networks last year, which was roughly 10% of their $55 billion in revenue, and their 25% operating margin to find what they’ll be trading at.

If media went under today, Disney’s net income would be $7.5 billion instead of $9 billion, which means they’ll be trading at a price to sales of 3x, a 20x Price to Earnings, and, a Price to Forward Earnings of 17.6, which is still cheaper than the S&P 500!

This is an incredible opportunity to buy a world class company.