The Walt Disney Company (DIS): Keep paying attention to its insider activity

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) saw an upside of 1.50% to close Tuesday at $88.13 after adding $1.3 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 13,695,340 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $88.33 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 16,720,086 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 14,489,346.

DIS’s 1-month performance is 0.03% or -$0.51 on its low of $85.16 reached on 07/25/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $84.07 and high of $126.48, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/09/23. YTD, DIS has achieved 1.44% or $1.25 and has reached a new high 15 times. However, the current price is down -30.32% from the 52-week high price.

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Insider Transactions

DIS stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Aug 01.Coleman Sonia L (Sr. EVP and Chief HR Officer) most recently sold 959 shares at $89.05 per share on Aug 01. This transaction cost the insider $85,399. EVP, Control, Fin Plan & Tax, WOODFORD BRENT, sold 1,145 shares at a price of $99.16 on Apr 25. Then, on Mar 21, EVP, Control, Fin Plan & Tax WOODFORD BRENT sold 1,139 shares at a price of $95.21 per share. This transaction amounted to $108,444.

Valuation Metrics

DIS stock has a beta of 1.28. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.83 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.65, with the price to cash flow ratio at 114.36.

The Walt Disney Company’s quick ratio for the period ended March 30 was 0.90, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.00. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending March 30 was 0.46, while the total debt to equity was 0.50.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 33.00%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 14.45% while for the period ending March 30, The Walt Disney Company’s operating margin was 8.10%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $28.32 billion against revenue of $82.72 billion.

Earnings Surprise

For the quarterly period ending March 30 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 63.02% to $1.27 billion, while revenue of $1.28 billion was -0.63% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected DIS to announce $0.93 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.93, representing a 0.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $3.43 billion. DIS stock balance sheet for the quarter ending March 30 shows that total liabilities totaled 103.3 billion, with total debt at $48.52 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $1.83 billion.

Let’s look briefly at The Walt Disney Company (DIS) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 08 August was 55.69% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 26.04%.

The stock’s 5-day moving average is $86.61, reflecting a -1.01% or -$0.90 change from its current price. DIS is currently trading -1.52% above its 20-day SMA, -5.34% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -0.01% and SMA200 by-10.97%.

Stochastic %K and %D was 42.16% and 27.64% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 1.73. The RSI (14) points at 51.62%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 64.99% with the period’s ATR at 1.72. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.15 and 0.38 on the 14-day charts.

Analyst Ratings

In the most recent analyst report for The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), Morgan Stanley reiterated its an Overweight rating for the company but lifted their price target by $110 to $105. Analysts offering their rating for DIS stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate DIS as a “sell,”, while 8 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 2 rates the stock as overweight while 18 have offered a “buy” rating.

What is DIS’s price target for the next 12 months?

Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $65.00 and a high of $147.00, with their median price target at $111.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for The Walt Disney Company (DIS) stock is $112.26.

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