Walt Disney Trounces Q4 Estimates on Back of Disney+ Subscriber Growth; Dividend Suspended – Motley Fool
Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) was a stock on the rise in post-market trading on Thursday, following the after-hours release of its fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 results.
For the quarter, the entertainment giant suffered a 23% drop in revenue, to $14.7 billion. The bottom line plunged violently into the red, with a loss from continuing operations of $710 million against the year-ago profit of $777 million. When adjusted for certain items, the former shook out to a $0.20 per share deficit.
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Analysts were expecting far worse from Disney, however. On average, they forecast only $14.2 billion on the top line, and a much deeper per-share, adjusted net loss of $0.71.
What helped lift the company was the Disney+ video streaming service, which has grown its paid subscriber c...