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Disney (DIS) is maintaining post-earnings stock gains ahead of Wednesday's market close. The media giant topped earnings estimates for its fiscal third quarter, reporting theme parks and streaming services to be its biggest growth drivers. CFRA Research director of equity research Ken Leon reacts to Disney's latest earnings release.
<body><p>STORY: :: Disney's sales and profit rise, boosted by the success of ‘Toy Story 5’</p><p>:: $1 Billion</p><p>"Toy story five was another monumental blockbuster for Disney."// "The movie has brought in more than $1 billion in box office this year. This lifts the franchise to total franchise value just in the box office alone to over $4 billion, which is what makes it a significant, franchise for Disney."</p><p>:: Dawn Chmielewski/Entertainment business correspondent</p><p>"And Disney is unique in the world of entertainment in that it can take characters and stories that are really resonating with audiences and find a way to, to, to monetize that fan affection in a variety of ways. Disney in its its quarterly earnings results, which were reported on on Wednesday morning, noted that the arrival of Toy Story five in theaters fueled interest in the earlier films, so there's been more than 2,000,000,000 hours worth of streaming on Disney Plus. It spurred toy sales through Disney's consumer products. Line. So consumer product sales were reached a high a five year high during the quarter. So that, too is spurred by Toy Story. And it also brought people to the theme parks and onto cruise ships where where kids have a chance to interact with Buzz and Woody and Jessie."//</p><p>:: Disney and TikTok have reached a short-form video-sharing deal</p><p>"Disney and TikTok announced a content sharing deal just before Disney reported its earnings early Wednesday morning. The deal is novel in this respect. Disney will allow TikTokers who are fans of Disney to begin using its its characters and video in their TikTok videos, which will be distributed not just on TikTok but also on Disney Plus, which has a new, a new category of, vertical video clips called verts."//</p><p>"So these TikTok videos, which will come to the service in the coming months, will be kind of a celebration of Disney's various, characters and stories." </p><p>CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took over in March, highlighted his strategy to invest in franchises like Toy Story to reach audiences outside the box office in a lengthy earnings letter to shareholders on Wednesday.</p><p>Separately, Disney and TikTok announced a deal on Wednesday that will allow TikTok creators to use characters and scenes from Disney movies and TV shows in short-form videos, the first agreement of its kind between the social media platform and a traditional media company.</p><p>The company reported revenue of $25.2 billion in the quarter, up 7% from last year, but shy of Wall Street's forecasts of $25.4 billion, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG.</p><p>Disney's per-share earnings rose 28% from a year ago to an adjusted $2.06, beating forecasts of $1.86 a share.</p></body>
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