Is the business good?
How good a business is DIS?
Walt Disney Company (The) earns 9.6% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
9.6%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.55 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 18%
Operating margin · Entertainment median 12% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.96×
Cash conversion · 1.00× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −3.4%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 15% |
| FY2023 | 14% |
| FY2024 | 17% |
| FY2025 | 19% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 18%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 8.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 8.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $98.9B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $8.29B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $8.60B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.6%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.