Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) does about 9.35M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 14210898 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 205.61B USD. Its current market price is $113.54, marking a decrease of -1.34% compared to the previous close of $115.08. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $123.74 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $83.91. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $263 and a low of $95.
Walt Disney Co (DIS) has a 20-day trading average at $99.72 and the current price is -8.24% off the 52-week high compared with 35.31% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $96.07 and its 200-day simple moving average is $101.58. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.46%, which decreases to 1.97% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 82.82 to suggest the stock is overbought.
27 analysts observing the Walt Disney Co (DIS) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $95 and $263. The consensus objective for the share price is $122.61, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 7.4% over the period. The median price target is 12.66% away from the current levels at $130.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 27 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 1 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 24 analysts have rated it as a buy and 2 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 16, 2024 when Piper Sandler initiated the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $95. Seaport Research Partners upgraded its price target at $108.
The current price level is 13.86%, 18.19%, and 11.78% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the DIS price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Walt Disney Co (DIS) stock is up 12.57% over the week and 16.71% over the past month. Its price is 25.75% year-to-date and 20.14% over the past year.
Its 12-month price target is $130. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 7.4 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $95, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $263.
The company has a return on investment of 3.49% and return on equity of 4.97%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 41.80 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 18.63. The beta has a value of 1.40. Price to book ratio is 2.04 and price to sales ratio is 2.26.
