The Walt Disney Company: Finances & Assets

Wikipedia has a very comprehensive overview of the company

2025 Financial Results

Disney is the 2nd largest media/entertainment company in the world
(but the 95th largest company overall)

Some of the major financial facts about Disney [2025 unless otherwise noted]
(from https://companiesmarketcap.com/walt-disney/revenue/)

• Revenue (Earnings): $95.71 billion
  
  
• Profit: $13.8 billion ($3.42 billion higher than 2024, i.e., 33% growth and  $6.78 billion higher than in 2022, i.e., 97% growth)
  
  
• Total assets: $202.1 billion (at end of 2025)
  
  
• Market capitalization (value of all its stock in February 2026): $188.28 billion (was $98.88 billion in 2022; a 90% increase in years)

Note that the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic had a very significant negative effect on the Disney Company's revenues in 2020 and 2021 while, in 2022, sales from many of its in-person operations (e.g., the parks and resorts) rebounded. Indeed, in 2020 Disney lost $2.64 billion.

What Does Disney Own in 2025?  (not complete)

If you are at all interested, here is a link to the 127-page 2025 Walt Disney Company Financial Report

Disney divides its operations into three segments:
Entertainment, Sports, and Experiences

Television Channels & Streaming Services

• ESPN Domestic & International
• Disney Channels
• Freeform (ABC Family, CBN channels, Family Channel, Fox Family Channel)
• A&E Television (A&E, History Channel, Lifetime; 50% owned by Disney)

• ABC Television Network (244 local station affiliates) & 8 TV Stations (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, Houston, Raleigh NC, Fresno, CA)
  
• ABC News
  
• FX, National Geographic, & Onyx Collective
  
• Hulu (~64 million subscribers)
• Disney+ (about 130 million worldwide)
  

Sports

• ESPN (80% owned by Disney)
• Includes 45 ESPN branded sports channels outside the US in 110 countries & in 4 languages
  
• By 2026, Disney will also own the NFL Network
  

Parks, Resorts, etc.

• Walt Disney World Resort (Orlando, FL: Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, 18 hotels w/23,000 rooms & 3,900 vacation club units; Fort Wilderness camping with 800 campsites... on 25,000 acres of land)
• ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex (9,500-seat outdoor stadium, 8,000 seat indoor)
• Disneyland Resort (Anaheim, CA; includes 3 hotels, 2,400 rooms & 180 vacation club units on 550 acres of land)
• Aulani Disney Resort & Spa (Hawaii)
• Disneyland Paris (100% owned; includes 7 hotels & 5,750 rooms)
• Hong Kong Disneyland (48% ownership)
• Shanghai Disney Resort (43% ownership)
• Tokyo Disney Resort
• A planned Disney-theme park and resort in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  

Disney Cruise Line (7 cruise ships and a total of 13 ships by 203, each with between 875 to 1,250 staterooms; newer cruise ships with have 2,100 staterooms)

Motion Pictures/Film Studios

• Walt Disney Pictures (1,100 live action films)
• Walt Disney Animation Studios (100+ animated films)
  
• Pixar: Toy Story (1, 2, 3), Finding Nemo, Minions, Monsters, Inc., Cars, WALL-E, Up
• Marvel: Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men
• Lucasfilm (StarWars; Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound)
• 20th Century Fox: All 20th Century Fox films
• Buena Vista International
• Between its own productions & acquired libraries from other producers, Disney has a library of
• 5,300 live-action film titles
• 460 animated film titles & episodic series
  

 Disney Theatrical Productions include

• The Lion King, Aladdin, Newsies, Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, Aida (Elton John), The Little Mermaid,
  
• Disney On Ice
• Frozen (opened on Broadway, Spring 2018 but closed in March, 2020 because of the pandemic. It is now touring across North America)

Merchandising & Consumer Sales

• Licensing to others: Frozen; Mickey and Minnie; Marvel properties such as The Avengers and Spider-Man; Star Wars; Disney Channel properties including Mickey Mouse Club House, Sofia the First and Doc McStuffins; Disney Princesses; Cars; Winnie the Pooh; and Disney Classics 

Disney Stores

• Shifted strategy from retail locations to online sales. Many fewer stores in malls now than previously.