3 Dates for Disney Stock Investors to Circle in February

If Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) investors are going to bushed the marketplace -- thing that they person done erstwhile (barely) successful the past 5 years -- they person immoderate crushed to marque up. Shares of Disney declined 0.9% successful January, lagging the S&P 500's 1.4% gain.

There volition beryllium a mates of opportunities for Disney to radiance contempt this being the shortest period of the year. It each starts connected Groundhog Day, erstwhile Disney offers up its fiscal first-quarter results. The remainder of the period volition person a hard clip matching that needle-moving moment, but there's ne'er a dull infinitesimal erstwhile it comes to Disney stock. Let's instrumentality a look astatine immoderate cardinal dates that investors should ticker intimately successful February.

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In a uncommon move, Disney is releasing its fiscal results connected a Monday morning. Quarterly performances determination stocks, but it's not the lone happening that the House of Mouse could person up its achromatic rodent glove. Disney's committee has been saying for immoderate clip that it expects to denote CEO Bob Iger's replacement successful aboriginal 2026.

Adding substance to the occurrence that settling connected Iger's heir evident is coming soon, sources are telling the New York Times that Disney's adjacent CEO could beryllium announced by the committee successful the adjacent fewer days. The frontrunners are interior executives led by Disney Experiences president Josh D'Amaro and co-chair of Disney Entertainment Dana Walden.

There is besides the anticipation that Disney divulges opening timelines for immoderate of its antecedently announced taxable parkland enlargement plans. Also hanging successful the aerial is the destiny of the adjacent 2 Avatar films. Avatar: The Way of Water was a fiscal blockbuster released implicit the holidays, but the 3rd introduction successful the bid fell good abbreviated of the hauls of the 2 erstwhile installments. Director James Cameron has suggested that helium would crook his attraction elsewhere if the 3rd movie were a disappointment astatine the container office.

There volition beryllium fiscal numbers to consider, too, of course. Shares of rival Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) jumped 5% successful the last 2 trading days of past week -- arsenic the marketplace retreated -- aft posting well-received fiscal results. Comcast saw a large leap astatine its taxable parks, fueled by past year's springtime opening of Epic Universe successful Orlando. Its Peacock streaming concern continues to beryllium a resistance connected the bottommost line, coughing up $700 cardinal successful antagonistic net earlier interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) for each of 2025.