We look at The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) a company in the Entertainment – Diversified industry being focused on by many investors, to assess if it provides value for investors considering buying or selling it. Currently The Walt Disney Company is trading at $100.02 after moving down -6.04% in the previous day of trading. [Trend Analysis]
DIS is trading with a trailing 12 month P/E multiple of 20.75 and an estimated forward P/E multiple of 17.89. The stock has an estimated 5 year annual growth of 14.02% and a PEG multiple of 1.48.
Rather than the usual Price to Earnings (P/E) multiple method, we use a slightly different method to assess if The Walt Disney Company is potentially a value buy for investors, the PEG ratio (P/E to growth). This PEG multiple takes into account the expected long term growth in earnings of the company rather than merely the growth for one earnings period ahead as forward P/E does.
That is to say, P/E simply doesn’t account for the long term prospects of DIS. As a rule of thumb, a stock with a PEG of between 0 and 1 is usually considered to be underpriced, between 1 and 2 to be at fair value and over 2 to be overpriced. Based on the PEG ratio of DIS being 1.48, we consider The Walt Disney Company to likely be priced at fair value.
This analysis means that value buyers who do not currently hold The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) should probably look for better value alternatives and investors currently holding the stock should either continue to hold or sell and look for alternatives.
The mean analyst 12 month target price for The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) is currently $120.89 or 20.87% above the current price. Additionally, the stock has been as high as $122.08 and as low as $78.54 in the last 52 weeks. Analysts are estimating that DIS will report earnings per share of $1.42 next quarter.
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