I think with that, we are excited to get going. We are very, very excited to have Hugh Johnston here, CFO of The Walt Disney Company. Thank you again for being here, and obviously lots to talk about, especially after the official first earnings call with Josh's taking over as CEO. Just let's kind of start really big picture.
Yep.
With Josh taking over, maybe help us think about what you're most excited about looking ahead with the leadership change and how that allows Disney to maybe do things a little bit differently or even build upon what obviously Bob has accomplished over the past few years.
Yeah. Happy to talk about that. Nice to be with you all. You know, anytime you change CEO, it's kind of an exciting time, and if you don't count our little thing from a couple of years ago, Bob basically was CEO for 20 years, so it's an even more substantial change in the company. That said, I think everybody is very energized around Josh coming in and taking over. Number one, he's been with the company for a long time anyway, has huge followership around the company.
Number two, the fact that Dana Walden is also going to be here as well as Chief Creative Officer and President of the company, you know, we had the good fortune of retaining two terrific executives, and that oftentimes when you have CEO change, you don't get that. If you sort of step back a little bit, the biggest thing that I think Josh is bringing so far, Again, we're basically, what are we, seven, eight weeks in at this point, so it's early days, but he's talking a lot and we're leaning into a lot, how do we accelerate the company, right? How do we get the growth rates up? How do we energize the company to move faster and to deliver stronger results? That's an exciting change.
Now, that's not a massive pivot from where Bob was, but if you think about where we were with Bob just a couple of years ago, he sort of laid down 4 planks of what he wanted to do. Number 1, get creative going in the right direction because it had gotten a little off. Number 2 was build on ESPN. Number 3 was make DTC profitable, and number 4 was turbocharge the parks. Well, if you look at where we are now, it's kind of we've checked all those boxes in a pretty substantial way.
I think what I'm most excited about with Josh, and you saw it in the, in the three planks that he laid out, he really spent his entire career with Disney at the parks, and one of the things the parks has that, you know, the entertainment side up until the last couple of years didn't have, is really a direct consumer relationship. Josh is used to dealing with fans, used to dealing with it, not through intermediaries, not through third parties, but on a one-on-one basis. As we start to pivot, not start, as we continue to pivot the company even more towards that direct consumer relationship, Josh has wonderful instincts in that regard. He understands the segmentation of our consumers. He understands, you know, what fans care about.
I think that connection directly to the fan is actually gonna be a big deal broadly for us, and then even more specifically, because of that intuition that he has as an experienced guy, the DTC service, Disney+, will benefit massively from his direct interaction with Disney fans over the course of the last couple of decades.
Okay. We look forward to seeing that. When you think about the combination that's been laid out, creativity, quality, and this global scale, when thinking about how the company leans in, and you're talking about accelerating over the next couple of years, how does that best position Disney as far as this pivot goes when think about the next decade plus?
Yeah. I mean, if you look at all of those things, right, creativity is always gonna be first, right. That's the essence of The Walt Disney Company, and I don't think of them as sort of being competing. I think of them as almost sequential in a way, right. Creativity is the value creation engine of the company, and then the other things that we do are basically amplifiers. If you look at some of the things that we've done in terms of real creativity, whether it's as far back as Toy Story, or more recently Zootopia 2, or more recently the Bear, those are all examples of great creativity.
When you take that and add to it the scale that we have and the quality that we deliver, it sort of gets that flywheel going in a significant way, and that then plays into, okay, now we've benefited ourselves theatrically, we benefit from the streaming service, we benefit in the parks, we benefit in consumer products. It all sort of ties together very, very nicely once we get that creative going. Couldn't be more excited about what it is that we're trying to do, and given the momentum that Bob left us with in terms of the creative side, I think we're gonna be able to deliver really strong results for quite a while.
Something that all of us in the room would love a specific way to understand this, from your perspective, what is the best way to really unlock the value that we see and that we think is embedded in the Disney stock price today?
Yeah. As much as you guys want it, I assure you, I want it more than any of you do for both financial and personal reasons. I think when you think about what it's gonna take to unlock stock price, let me step back and say what are the things that we're focused on as a management team, right? We're focused on long-term growth, right? Because we know long-term growth is really the ultimate value creator. We're focused on making sure that we deliver consistent performance, 'cause that's the kind of company we are. We should be able to deliver consistently, you know, not necessarily every, you know, perfectly every single quarter. Obviously, there's a little bit of variability to the performance.
I've sort of often joked I'd like to get the roller coasters out of the stock price and then just keep them in the parks. You know, there's always a little bit of a variation given the movies and things like that that we do. We're focused on capital allocation and making sure that we're delivering the right types of returns on the way that we allocate capital. If we do those things well, that basically makes this company the earnings compounder that I've been talking about since I've gotten here, and I think we do have the ability to do that, to sort of focus on all of those three things and with that basically do 2 things. 1, make our vision and strategy very clear to ourselves internally and then clear to you all externally.
Off of that, build financial plans that make sense. Off of that, give you all guidance that we you know, we commit to, and then after that, we work like hell to execute and make sure that we deliver that guidance. That to me makes us the earnings compounder that frankly I think will deserve and earn a higher multiple over time, and that's really what we're trying to do, is get that earnings compounding not just going, 'cause I think we've had it going, but to just build that reliable track record in all of your minds, and with that, the multiple goes up and I think the gap between what I think the company is worth right now and where we're trading at is gonna close.
In that regard, one of the things that you all are aware of and we announced again last week, is we're gonna buy back at least $8 billion worth of stock, which is a pretty significant number in the context of our size company. That's because we have so much confidence that we're buying it at a very good price that in fact, it's actually an excellent investment for our investors, us taking that stock and buying it back.
When you think about this future for Disney over the next 5-plus years, another question that we get a lot is what do we think about in terms of the portfolio size? Should we think about a similar level of assets, a scaled down maybe, you know, more specific Disney-branded type of portfolio or even potentially a larger portfolio? I know you guys have made significant acquisitions looking backwards.
Yeah.
As we think about the next few years ahead, what's the best way to frame that for us?
I don't know that thinking about it larger versus smaller is necessarily the right way to think about it. The thing that matters most to us is how integrated are the assets into that value creation model that we talk about, right? We're talking about One Disney, One Disney is essentially what I laid out earlier, the notion of great creativity lead in terms of value creation, then leads to value monetization, whether it's on screens or whether it's in physical experiences. The assets that are tethered to that, and by the way, I do think sports is tethered to that to be very clear, those are the ones that are gonna be most important to us and that's what we're gonna continue to grow and continue to invest in and build on.
Assets that are not connected to that in a, in a fairly discreet way we're gonna look very hard at and, you know, we have been doing that and will continue to do it, but we're only gonna make moves that are value creating at the end of the day. That, that's the real, you know, that's the line.
Okay. Let's shift to streaming. If you can help us understand what that long-term vision is for how the current streaming services can best compete for these global other streaming companies, of course Netflix, Amazon, we just had YouTube present.
Right.
When you think about the competitive set looking forward within streaming, where is Disney's position within that?
Yeah, you know, obviously the industry is continuing to evolve, and we have a lot of respect for what YouTube has built. We have a lot of respect for what Netflix has built, but we also think we have a unique set of capabilities and assets that will enable us to be successful. Number one, we have basically the largest collection of most emotionally resonant IP of anyone by far. It's not even close, and those two companies that you just mentioned, they don't even really have that in a substantive way. Number two, we obviously have sports, and that obviously that is something that the rest of the industry is trying to go towards. We're already there.
Number 3, we have the physical experiences business, the parks business, and our ability to sort of monetize in that integrated way I think is an advantage for us. If you think about where Disney+ and Hulu are going, they're gonna be leveraging those particular capabilities. Obviously we leverage the creativity that we bring. We're looking at sports in a more significant way. Are there opportunities for, you know, having one app for Disney? Yeah, over time we do think that that's out there, and with that, the parks will be integrated into all of that as well. To me that's significant competitive advantage that's awfully hard to replicate, and I think that that's the way we're gonna compete and we should be able to compete successfully and win with that set of assets.
I guess just building upon that, when we think about Disney+, you've talked about being the digital centerpiece of this whole future Disney Company.
Yeah.
Think about how does this accelerate the total company, if you wanna say total company revenues or even just specifically when we think about DTC revenues and profits. You touched on bringing Disney+ to the in-park guest experience. Like, how does that all factor in and play out?
Yeah, I mean, if you sort of think about what we're doing by virtue of bringing fans together and making it the digital centerpiece, it gives us the ability to touch our fans and to grow our fan base more and more, right? By virtue of touching them more and more, it gives us the ability to now basically to sell them more, to build that emotional connection more, and to expand the Disney franchise more. All of that ultimately translates into revenue growth. In addition to that, once you have your fans into your ecosystem, and remember, this ecosystem to me is not just about Disney assets because even right now we carry more than just Disney assets in Disney+. My expectation is it is a portal into all things entertainment over time, right?
I think it'll be bigger than just Disney in terms of bundling and the way that things come together. Building that relationship to me is something that will generate revenue and in addition to that, it's more efficient to market to the fans once you have them in your app, and that'll allow us to reduce marketing costs over time. I think it's a combination of both.
Okay. Any more context maybe just as we think about this One Disney idea and platform and where it's all going, can you frame like what the overall TAM is for us or maybe even more specifically when we think about entertainment SVOD, you guys have broken that out for us now, revenue and how that translates into, you know, the question that you always get, where do the long-term margins go for this platform?
Yeah. I mean, I'm not gonna put a public TAM out there today, so we're not gonna make that news. As you might imagine, we, from a strategy perspective, do look at that, but I don't wanna go to that place just yet. The way I do think about it though is all of those assets that we have, the ultimate goal is to drive engagement, right? The more that we can do to connect with our broad audience of Disney fans will enable us to increase engagement over time.
Now that engagement will come out of a combination of content, also a combination in conjunction with that bundling, which obviously we know reduces churn and therefore drives engagement and therefore allows us to spend less marketing money as well as connect with our fans more significantly. In addition to that, the technology side of things, we're working hard to improve the product, and with that improved product we know that also drives engagement up, drives churn down. That engagement to me is the critical variable to actually drive long-term margins because when you have that level of engagement, A, it reduces your cost, in addition to that, it allows us basically permission to price. That's sort of how we're thinking about that. That said, I don't wanna be hamstrung.
Back when I got here a couple years ago, you know, the business was losing $1 billion a year. I was going around five weeks into the job and basically hearing from all of you, "Hey, Disney+, I mean, how does this thing even make sense? You're losing, you know, last year you lost $4 billion, you know, this year you lost $1 billion. Wait, what are you guys gonna do about that?" I said, "Look, you know, we're trying to build a good business." The good business starts with double-digit margins, right? If it doesn't have that, what's the point of being in business? We got aligned as a team around that.
We committed to it, and you saw last quarter we actually delivered the double-digit margins and we reiterated we'll do at least double digit for the current year. That said, to me that is a good example of the guidance we commit, we execute, we deliver to you all what we said we were gonna deliver. That said, I also wanna make sure, we don't in any way intend to go backwards, but this is a business we wanna manage for top line growth as well as manage for margins. It's strategically important to us. We think the opportunity exists. Certainly international exists as an opportunity. As I said, our ultimate goal is to drive the profitability of the business. The margins will not go backwards, but I wouldn't necessarily sort of model out X or Y every year.
I would think more about what's the top, what's the bottom line growth gonna be and is it gonna be led by top line? If we're accomplishing that, then I kind of feel like we're doing the right things for that business and the right things for the company.
Okay. You touched on this a little bit before, when you think about the larger capital allocation story for the company, obviously free cash flow generation plays a critical role within that. When we think about how you prioritize reinvesting in content spending that you also just touched on to help accelerate the growth of streaming versus, you know, allowing those dollars to be reinvested through capital returns and others.
Yeah.
Help us think about that balance and how you prioritize that content spending.
We had talked about earlier in the year $19 billion of cash flow from operations, right? We got very specific with that number, and we also said we should generate or we should spend about $9 billion in CapEx as a part of turbocharging the parks. Obviously that leaves us with about $10 billion of CFO. We're basically in that place. In terms of content spending, last year we spent $23 billion. We've indicated to you all we're gonna spend about $24 billion this year, but we're also prioritizing and managing the mix more towards international because we see that as the most significant growth opportunity for the DTC business. The opportunity domestically is about driving engagement. The opportunity internationally is about clearly gaining more subs because we just have a significant opportunity there.
Our priority is going to be to do those things while at the same time balancing that with the cash returns that we provide to shareholders. I mentioned the $8 billion in share repurchase this year. The dividend has also gone up pretty significantly. We pay a biannual dividend, and obviously we feel that's super important. As a CFO, I always view that 1 as really important because CFOs who cut the dividend tend not to do well. With that, I think we'll be able to balance out the cash return to shareholders, at the same time, investing in international content without being disruptive to the cash return for shareholders.
Okay. A big piece of content spending overall is still clearly sports, and you've talked about the importance of ESPN already to the company. When you think about your overall sports strategy, and especially the linear network side of that business, can you talk about how that plays into the overall lens of the priorities that have been laid out in terms of that creativity, quality, and global scale?
Yeah. It's interesting, you know, because there, obviously there's always a lot of talk about, you know, what's the future of ESPN and all of those things. If you sort of look at right now what is the hottest and best thing in media, it's live sports, right? I mean, live sports is about the only thing left that can aggregate mass audience and aggregate it real time. Almost everything else in entertainment, you know, you choose when, you choose, you know, how much you want to watch, and as a result it's sort of very chopped up. Live sports still, you know, you don't want to watch a game that you know the result of from three days ago. I mean, some people do, but yeah, that's not typical, let's put it that way.
To me, live sports is just massively valuable to us. More importantly, it's massively valuable to advertisers because they want these big aggregated audiences and they value that tremendously. In addition to that, our competition knows it, right? If you look at where competition is going, they're all trying to sort of nose their way further and further into live sports. To me, that's probably the best indication that when you have this incredibly valuable asset and it's integral to your overall strategy, why would you be doing anything other than trying to build on it over time? That's exactly what we've done with ESPN. Interestingly enough, if you think about sort of the digital world of ESPN digital and social had 197 million users last month.
I mean, it's a huge number. Even ESPN, the app, had 28 million users. That's bigger than the next eight biggest apps combined, right? That's how impactful ESPN is. What do we need to do with ESPN? We need to basically continue to improve and do a better job of integrating it into the overall streaming strategy, because that's where we're gonna create big value. That's why we launched ESPN DTC. Frankly, you know, to me, that is the differentiator or one of the big differentiators we have.
My expectation is we're gonna continue to basically take what's the biggest brand, the world's biggest brand in sports, and continue to build on it so that we can build this direct to consumer set of touch points that then are massively valuable to The Walt Disney Company from a lifetime value perspective across a whole variety of spectrums.
Okay. You touched on, mentioned a valuable asset, so let's shift to parks.
Yeah.
We think, and parks are clearly a central piece within this overall, successful company. When you think about the parks assets and delivering the live experience to the Disney fans that we talked about, especially in this screen-first, virtual, and growing AI world, help us frame how you see the importance of those assets over the next few years as this develops?
Yeah, it's interesting and, you know, of course, everyone is sort of acutely focused on AI these days and sort of, you know, how it's gonna change the world of screens. The interesting part to me in that is in a world where people are more and more focused on their screen, and to me, that's a great thing for The Walt Disney Company, because obviously we're a big player in screens and delivering entertainment through screens. It actually amplifies the value of real shared physical in-person experiences as well, right?
For the ability for a family to come together and emotionally connect, for a group of friends to come together and basically connect in terms of a set of physical experiences, that is becoming more and more valuable because people are spending less time day to day interacting with each other. Those interaction moments, I think, are even more critically important than they are in the past, and that's what makes the parks business, I think, so much more valuable and the cruise business so much more valuable. My expectation is, and that's why we're investing so much in it, we're gonna be able to deliver terrific returns out of that set of assets over time because people do value that physical interaction. Frankly, our recent performance kind of proves the point that I'm making, right.
I mean, even in a world where the consumer broadly is a little bit choppy, we've seen very strong results in the parks.
You've talked about the consumer, so let's go there. Just in terms of any changes in terms of U.S. revenue or profit growth, you touched on it on the earnings call, but factoring in all of these geopolitical uncertainty and especially the gas prices, it doesn't seem like you've seen any sort of indication yet, but how to think about that over the next couple months?
Yeah, no, I mean, we honestly haven't seen it in the data at all. I mean, we talked about that in an earnings call and, you know, continue to see the fact that consumers are clearly connecting to our offerings. How much of that is this K-shaped consumer that obviously we tend to play more into in the parks and to one portion of the K-shape? How much of that is just once you commit to your family and you tell the kids you're going to Disney World, and you're not gonna back off that one without some severe repercussions. People don't tend to do it. We're not immune to the macros, right? Everyone knows that.
If gas were to go to $8 a gallon or something like that presumably would have a lot of impacts. Right now we're seeing nothing, either in the data that we have looking backward or in the bookings that we're seeing going forward. It's what gave us the confidence to deliver the guide that we did is we do feel good about where we are and where we're going.
Maybe just to follow up on that, international historically has been a big piece of the visitation, especially at Walt Disney World.
Right.
Maybe just help us frame where we are in the life cycle of international since coming out of the pandemic, and again, given some of the recent choppiness there.
Yeah. 2, I think 2 questions there. One is about our international parks, and the international parks continue to do very well right now. Not seeing anything in the macros there either. In fact, the Paris park is actually having a really good moment right now. We just added World of Frozen there, and we're basically filling the park. When you have that type of expansion and you can fill the park, you feel very good about that. That sort of gets to the point around when we leverage our IP and take that IP and build big new attractions, not little things.
The little things are fine too, but it's these big new things that actually tend to just really bring in the investment or bring in the consumers and frankly, it builds their engagement even stronger to that particular set of IP. International parks doing very, very well right now. International visitation to the U.S. parks, as we said on the call, we think we're basically through the overlap on that. You know, it's been in the numbers for 4 quarters. It's been rebased, we're not seeing further deterioration. From that perspective, we feel very, very good. In fact, if anything, outside of Canada, we're actually seeing things improving. From that perspective, certainly feel very positively about where we're getting with international visitation.
Again, that's consistent with what we talked about in terms of the bookings and the go-forward for the business and why we're feeling so optimistic.
Great. You also touched on this a little bit before, when thinking about that broad investment that was laid out in terms of the parks investment and CapEx.
Yeah.
That's needed, or that you guys are looking to invest over the next 10 years, $60 billion, on a global basis. Maybe just help us in the room here and understand the confidence level in this investment cycle.
Yeah.
What you're seeing early, 'cause we're already a couple of years into this. How can we feel that the ROIC on this investment clearly has been very successful looking back over the past decade. As we look forward, where is this growth gonna come from?
Yeah. The good part is the stage that we're at, we can talk about this from two perspectives. One was, as we went into this investment cycle, we held ourselves to high standards in terms of the returns on all of these projects. And when I say high standards, I mean when the CapEx for the individual project comes floating in, if it's not hitting certain hurdle rates and certain returns, we don't do it. Just because we declare a number, it doesn't mean people get to go spend the money. From the standpoint of approach, the approach was we're gonna have high standards on these incremental investments. The second nice part about it is we're about three years into that. I think it was, three years, it'll be three years in August.
August of 2023 was when that number was first put out there. We're actually Some of the projects are already delivering returns, and what we're seeing is good returns on the projects which you have some level of visibility too, because you get some data around individual attractions and cruise ships and things like that. In addition to that, you can see the impact on the overall parks business and the results there continue to be strong in terms of ROIC, in terms of margins. The growth in terms of revenue is continuing to be strong. If you look at it in aggregate, the performance is already proven in the numbers. It's my favorite kind of strategy, the one that we did three years ago, and we can talk about how good it's turned out.
Okay.
From that perspective, you know, we feel like these initiatives are really good and in a lot of ways the best is yet to come in terms of the projects that we have coming in and the expectations we have for them.
Let's go there for a second. In terms of these new attractions, and it seems like next year it's really gonna start to contribute more. How do we think about that balance of attendance growth and the capacity that you're building out?
Yeah.
Obviously pricing is usually a big focus here. When we think about Walt Disney World and Disneyland specifically, that balance between attendance growth and pricing.
As I've said before, you will see some it's not gonna be one or the other in over any 3 or 4-year time frame. It's gonna be both, and necessarily it needs to be both. The interesting part, and I would just offer this to you all as investors. There tends to be a lot of focus on attendance as a number. The reality of it is, when you have a big, fixed asset like we do, we tend to actually use promotional activities to make sure that we're filling the park every day, right?
The capacity utilization on these parks is really high almost all the time because of the way that we can use Again, you know, whether it's certain types of discounting or certain types of promotion. We don't necessarily, without expansion, we don't necessarily have the ability to grow attendance massively, 'cause it's already filled up. Now, we could jam more people into the park, but then the guest experience declines, and that's actually bad for the brand. You don't want us to do that, and we don't think it's a good idea either. When we add capacity, without a doubt, it creates the opportunity. We're seeing that in Paris right now to basically allow more people into the park.
The logical, as good analysts, you would ask, the logical next question is, Oh, but does that mean the yield is gonna go down? That's not been our experience, because when you put in a big, new attraction, it actually you see a surge in demand for it as well. We tend to fill those things up really quickly without having to discount. In fact, it actually offers some ability to charge more because essentially you're offering something new that wasn't there before. I'm not gonna get into specific guidance year by year, park by park, all that stuff. frankly, I don't think it's all that useful to you. The answer, to sort of pull all the way back to your, to your question, is yes, we have the ability to grow attendance as we expand capacity.
I would expect to see both pricing and attendance growth over any 3 or 4-year timeframe. But at the end of the day, I wouldn't overemphasize attendance as sort of a critical variable. I think we're gonna do well with it, but I, to me, it is ultimately the combination of yield and attendance that matters the most. How do you look at that? The, the old-fashioned metric, what's the revenue growth look like?
Taking all of that, the next natural question would be, as you build out the cruise ships?
Right.
Clearly you're looking to fill them and get the best yield out of it, too. The cruise line fleet is set to more than double, to 13 ships by the early part of next decade. Maybe just help us frame that ramp in revenue and obviously profits as each new ship is added, and whether or not there is any cannibalization on the prior fleet.
Yeah. It's interesting. First to sort of step way back, just to kind of set expectations on what you just said, the easiest way to think about it is we're gonna be adding about 1 ship per year between now and 2031. That's essentially the most simple way to think about this. With that, once we get through the pre-opening costs, you know, which are meaningful, but already in our base 'cause we're already opening 1 ship a year, those ships basically start earning a return like that. Why do they do that? There really isn't much cannibalization, right?
We mentioned on the earnings call, right now our capacity utilization or our fill rate on the ships is just as high this year as it was last year, despite all of the new capacity that we've added in. One of the things that I think is beneficial to what we're doing right now is we're starting to put ships outside of our traditional ports. Obviously, the Adventure is in Singapore, and it's a massive ship. It's double the size of anything that we've done before, and we really sold out a season of that ship in just a handful of days. I mean, the demand outside the U.S. for Disney Experiences, not just Disney Entertainment, is huge. With that, you know, by virtue of bringing more ships into other areas of the world, we're doing two things.
Number 1, we're fulfilling that demand and driving revenue. Number 2, we know that experiences like being on a cruise tend to bond people more, so we're increasing their fandom, and with that, we're increasing the lifetime value of all of these consumers that we're pulling in. Put it all together, I mean, it's a superb strategy, and one that I think is gonna benefit The Walt Disney Company for a very long time to come. This is one that has got a long runway attached to it.
Okay, good to hear. As we start to wrap up, maybe taking you back, you joined Disney about, I think two and a half years ago now.
Yeah.
Spending many years at PepsiCo. Any lessons that you learned from the prior work that you really are applying to Disney after being here a couple years, and how that's positioning the company over the next, call it 3-5 years?
Yeah. I mean, the biggest thing and the biggest commonality that I saw at PepsiCo and I certainly see at Disney even more so, is just the power of these types of longstanding global brands, right? These brands have such remarkable resonance with consumers, and if I thought the Pepsi brands were, you know, they resonated with consumer, Disney is sort of next level in terms of emotional attachment, people feeling so strongly about these brands and sticking with them through their lifetime. That's sort of the continuity that I see. The difference between, I'm gonna talk about Pepsi, but the consumer products business is when you have a good brand, one of the things you have to do is innovate around that brand, right?
In the consumer product space, the innovation tends to be somewhat incremental in nature, right? Flavors and forms and things like that. The innovation at Disney is really inventing whole new storylines, right? It's a level of creativity that you just, you don't really see elsewhere, and that ability to sort of innovate and bring those new stories to life has the benefit of expanding the brand as opposed to just letting the brand sit as it is. In addition to that, because of the nature of our asset profile, that new creativity then plays its way through the entire value creation set of the businesses or monetization set of businesses that we have that frankly is, I think, pretty unique. You don't really see that much elsewhere.
You know, it's funny, when we talk about the various businesses inside of Disney, one of the things I'm fond of saying is, you know, we have businesses that are outstanding alone, but they're even better together, and that's kind of, to me, the ultimate way to think about Disney is outstanding alone, better together.
Okay. Anything that you want to leave us with, in terms of what isn't fully appreciated? You know, hopefully if you're back here again next year, what do you think investors are gonna be most surprised about over the next, call it 12 months?
I think it's just gonna be the consistent earnings compounding. We're just gonna continue to deliver that, and if you believe in that compounding, you believe in you probably look at the stock price and say, "Man, that's low relative to what it should be." That's what I'd leave you with, is I think the stock price is attractive, and we're betting $8 billion this year on that. I think there is a real opportunity here.
All right. With that, Hugh, Ben, Dan, thank you all for being here.
Thank you, Bob Iger.
Yeah.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.