Since Disney (NYSE: DIS) shares are down nearly 25% from their all-time highs, some may feel compelled to scoop up as many shares of the House of Mouse as they possibly can. However, investors should be aware of the risks.
In most regards, Discovery Communications' (NASDAQ: DISCA) plans were the inevitable next chapter of the streaming video saga -- that is, offering consumers a way to pick and choose exactly the cable television content they want without making them purchase something they don't.
A few months short of its fifth birthday, Artisan Developing World (symbol ARTYX) is youthful by mutual fund standards. But before taking the helm, manager Lewis Kaufman spent a decade managing foreign-stock strategies at Thornburg Investment Management, including roughly five
South by Southwest (SWSX), the popular technology, film, media, and music festival is scheduled to kick off next week in Austin, Texas, but the fan-favorite event may be a relative ghost town. Many of the most high-profile contributors are canceling appearances due to growing co
Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) is considering becoming the next streaming video provider to get into the content creation business, reports online trade magazine Digiday. According to the usual "people familiar with the matter," the company has spoken to media and entertainment companies a
When it comes to estimating where Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will be in five years, we investors don't have to guess in the dark. The video-streaming veteran's management has given us plenty of tools to help us find what we're looking for. It may not amount to an annotated map, but
For AT&T (NYSE: T), merging the vast majority of its entertainment assets into one big streaming service, HBO Max, will be relatively easy. Finding an effective way to build it into a genuine rival to market leader Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) or even fellow newcomer Disney+ (NY
Shares of many legacy media stocks have suffered over the past few years, because of the rise of streaming and the acceleration of cord-cutting. That includes the likes of Discovery (NASDAQ: DISCA) (NASDAQ: DISCB) (NASDAQ: DISCK), which is the market leader in unscripted conten
Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA) is planning a big push into streaming video in 2020. The media company's cable networks are a staple of the big bundle, but management expects its direct-to-consumer and other streaming efforts to generate over $1 billion in revenue thi
Investing in the stocks of high-quality, growing companies for a long period of time is the most likely way for us regular folk to get rich. We're not likely to make millions being professional athletes or actors, we're probably not going to inherit millions, and we're almost ce
Because the word that has been so overused over the last week or so, it is important to remember that "volatility" does not mean just downward movement; it means violent swings in the market.
iQiyi (NASDAQ: IQ) investors have been on a non-stop thrill ride since the Chinese streaming giant was spun off in early 2018 from Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), which still owns a majority stake. After soaring more than $40 per share and gaining 150% in just over two months after its de