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Weekly Roundup: Disney Falls on Earnings, Warner Bros. Discovery Draws Interest, Walmart Slides

Nov 14, 20254 min
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On this episode of Stock Movers, we take a look at some of the biggest gainers and decliners of the week:
- Disney (DIS) reported sales that fell short of Wall Street estimates and said a slate of big-budget films, including a new Avatar picture, will weigh on results for the first quarter of its new fiscal year. Shares of Disney fell 7.8% to $107.61 at the close in New York on Thursday following the earnings release. It was Disney's worst one-day loss since April.
- Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) shares bounced around this week on reports that Paramount, Comcast and Netflix were preparing bids for it. On Friday, the media conglomerate amended the contract of Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav to ensure his stock options remain eligible to vest even if it's sold. The change, announced in a regulatory filing Thursday, follows the company’s decision last month to consider strategic options including a possible sale. Shares rallied on Friday to close the week.
- Walmart (WMT)'s Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon recently spoke about the impact of artificial intelligence, saying it’s clear that the technology is going to change “literally every job.” That includes the very one he’s now passing along — a move that fits a tenure defined by staying a step ahead of change. Shares initially fell on the news.

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Speaker 1

Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

Speaker 2

The Stock Movers report, your roundup of companies making moves in the stock market, harnessing the power of Bloomberg Data.

Speaker 1

I'm Carol Masser along with Tim stand of It. Let's get to some stocks on the move this past week. We're joined by Bloomberg News earning specialist Rachel Pua joining us. Rachel, interesting week, no doubt about it. So Disney tell us about the week's move overall taker, of course.

Speaker 3

Is dis Yes, so Disney it reported yesterday with sales that were behind expectations. It also said that nix Quata will be affected by expenses tied to huge releases like the Nicks Avata film and Utopia to the company, No, Bloomberger, it's investing in area such as bundling with other streaming platforms, and this is going to cost many an I into profits, but invest this one exactly pleased.

Speaker 4

I've never seen Avatar, not even the first one. No, could you see it? Yeah, the first one I saw years ago.

Speaker 5

I mean we're talking like in the theater, Imax theater two thousand and eight, thousand and nine, back, I don't know.

Speaker 4

Audio and Doug like, yeah, he liked it. Okay, first one's good TBD TBD for me at least. Okay, maybe we have to just see it too.

Speaker 5

The spoiler alerts for the twenty year old movie for Carol everybody, Warner Brothers.

Speaker 4

I'm the same way with a lot of meat. There's a whole list.

Speaker 5

My wife's be such a hard time because they're all these.

Speaker 4

I think you watched so much.

Speaker 5

No, I mean we watch, Like, first of all, I'm very busy, so I'm not watching. Okay, yeah, definitely not. Definitely too busy to watch. Sorry, Tims, be busy, too busy. All right, let's go to where do you want to go? I want Rachel to save us with Warner speaking of entertainment.

Speaker 3

Yeah, so not entertainment company, and then used this is Tika WBD.

Speaker 4

We know what it.

Speaker 3

It's been looking to split its keyboard network, swim at studio and streaming business and now Wanner Broadus has said that is setting on November twentyth dateline for BITS, and it's gotten a lot of interest from rivals. You know, we know that there's Paramount, which still wants to buy the entire company after making multiple office that's been rejected. Then there's also Comcasts and Netflix, which are both interested in the TV and movie studios, and HBO Max but

not so much. It's Keble channels.

Speaker 5

Oh that's interesting. Okay, yeah, we'll see what happens. This is the one that is under.

Speaker 4

Well, well we can go ahead, go ahead. Oh I was just this is the one that you know, it's like, who's going to buy what?

Speaker 1

I know?

Speaker 4

That's the what do you think Warner Brothers?

Speaker 1

Don't she don't look at my Blueberg?

Speaker 4

How much is up this year? Seventy percent?

Speaker 1

One hundred and seventeen percent?

Speaker 4

Wow? Yeah, okay, sorry, Rachel, we're a little what happened last year? But you know, and like it's been beat up.

Speaker 5

Oh yeah yeah, and it's all over news about like longer person giving it up for pieces.

Speaker 1

I know, I know right, it's it's for sale, folks. Walmart, let's talk about that one tick or w MT.

Speaker 4

Yeah.

Speaker 3

So CEO Doug McMillan analysis that he is planning to step down in febshe after four decades with Walmart and eleven years as a CEO. He will be replaced by John Ferner, who had been hitting Walmart us and he's kind of been assumed to be the one who would take over. So shares were down earlier today, which shows that investors were wrapped up by the news because there's clearly a lot to do right now right now. You know, there's AI, there's the economy, there's automation kind of affecting workers.

Speaker 2

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