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Key Stats for Warner Bros Discovery StockPrice change for Warner Bros Discovery stock: 12%$WBD Stock Price as of Sep. 22: $3152-Week High: $31$WBD Stock Price Target: $30What Happened?Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) shares surged more than 12% on Monday after Paramount Skydance settled a major legal battle standing in the way of its $110 billion acquisition of the company.
The $110 billion merger just cleared a major legal hurdle. Now the numbers matter.
Paramount Skydance is moving closer to completing its Warner Bros. Discovery deal, potentially removing a costly delay risk for the companies.
Shares of Warner Bros. Discovery rallied after Paramount Skydance reached a settlement paving the way for the media giants’ mega-merger.
A landmark multi-state settlement clears regulatory hurdles, setting the stage for one of Hollywood's largest media mergers in history.
Antitrust settlement talks are reshuffling the media landscape in real time, sending two rival stocks surging for completely opposite reasons while their biggest streaming competitor barely flinches.
Warner Bros. and Paramount stock rallied on reports that Paramount's talks with California officials have been finalized
Warner Bros. and Paramount stock rallied on reports that Paramount's talks with California officials have been finalized
Paramount is racing a $7 million a day penalty clock after September
Media Stocks Jump as Paramount Seeks Breakthrough in Merger Fight
Investing.com -- Shares of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery climbed after the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Paramount and California’s attorney general have made progress in settlement talks over the company’s proposed $81 billion merger with Warner Bros.
As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries. The FCC cleared the way on Thursday, granting sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to hold indirect equity interests in a Paramount-Warner combo, but no voting stakes. Skydance-owned Paramount — whose $81 billion merger with Warner is still on hold amid a separate antitrust battle with twelve states and Hollywood writers — welcomed the FCC's ruling.
Paramount Skydance (NasdaqGS: PSKY) announced a new partnership linking its Scream franchise with Angry Orchard Hard Cider and costume company Fun World for a limited-edition product rollout. The collaboration features Scream themed Angry Orchard beverage packaging, new hard cider flavors and exclusive designs tied to the franchise. Fun World is contributing Scream inspired visual elements across the collection, aligning with its role as the original creator of the Ghost Face costume. The...
Bloomberg's Hannah Miller joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Paramount has acknowledged that it's considering a wide range of options to settle lawsuits challenging its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
California's top prosecutor blasts Paramount-Warner Bros. conduct as 'amateur hour.'
Paramount Skydance is seeking a $1.88-billion bond to cover losses from the antitrust lawsuit that delayed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Even before Nvidia Corp.’s splashy $500 billion financing partnership this week, investors were starting to fret over the roughly $70 billion in phantom liabilities that don’t appear on major AI companies’ balance sheets, but could materialize at the worst possible time.
The odds of the Hollywood megamerger happening appear to be improving, judging by recent stock moves.
PSKY beats Q2 earnings and revenue estimates as DTC strength, a Studios turnaround and cost discipline offset TV Media weakness, with a solid Q3 outlook.
Paramount Skydance reaffirmed plans to close its Warner Bros. Discovery merger even as the deal faces an antitrust challenge.
Video podcasting and gaming could be revenue generators for Netflix, but there isn't anything on the immediate horizon to help reverse stock price losses.
European Commission clears Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on competition grounds, marking a key regulatory step in Europe. Approval follows earlier international reviews and sits alongside ongoing legal challenges in the US as of late July 2026. Warner Bros. Discovery, ticker NasdaqGS:WBD, also outlines plans to expand its use of generative AI with a focus on growth and creator support. The company highlights content development and production workflows as core...
A signed $31 cash deal, two regulators' blessings, and one courtroom standing between shareholders and the payout.
European Commission grants unconditional approval for Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Decision confirms no remedies are required to address competition concerns in key European media markets. Regulatory clearance in Europe directly contrasts with efforts by some US state attorneys general to challenge the deal. For Paramount Skydance, ticker NasdaqGS:PSKY, the European Commission's clearance comes at a time when the stock has faced pressure, with the share price...
Paramount on Friday agreed to delay closing its $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery well into next year, as a judge continues to consider a challenge from 12 states seeking to block the deal altogether. In a court filing, Paramount said it wouldn’t close the merger until either a court ruling is made on the merits of the states’ lawsuit or June 1, 2027. The move arrives just days after U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order to freeze the transaction for several weeks, ruling that the states had raised some “serious questions” and a strong case about the merger's potential to “substantially lessen competition.”
Paramount Skydance Corp. (NASDAQ:PSKY) has secured European Union antitrust approval for its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) after agreeing to end its film distribution joint venture with Universal Pictures. On Wednesday, the European Commission said Paramount’s commitment to dissolve the United International Pictures joint venture in Europe within 13 months of closing the deal resolves its competition concerns. The company will avoid film distribution agreements
Commitment to terminate its stake in European distribution venture with Universal Pictures eased regulators’ concerns.
The Writers Guild of America became the latest group to challenge Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit that seeks to block the merger on the grounds it would cause “specific harm” to movie and TV writers working across the U.S. A Paramount-Warner merger “threatens the economic and creative health of the American entertainment industry,” reads Tuesday's federal complaint, which was filed by both the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East (jointly the WGA). “This proposed combined entity would be the largest employer of writers, with tremendous power to suppress our wages, eliminate opportunities for emerging writers, cut jobs across the industry, and produce less programming," WGAE President Tom Fontana said in a statement.
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