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Disney dips on weaker-than-expected Q4 revenue amid its longest-ever TV blackout

...and you’re watching Disney Channel.

The happiest place on Earth is feeling pretty meh today. Disney’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report came out on Thursday, and investors — a variation of Disney adult, you could say — didn’t exactly cheer the results, with shares sliding 3.4% as of 7:24 a.m. ET.

The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.11, below last year, but higher than Wall Street estimates of $1.05 per share.

Looking ahead, Disney said it expects streaming profit of $375 million for its quarter ending in December. For the full fiscal year, it expects adjusted profit per share to grow by double digits. Disney said it would double its share buyback target to $7 billion for its 2026 fiscal year.

The entertainment giant also posted:

  • $22.46 billion in total revenue in its fourth quarter, short of analyst estimates of $22.76 billion (compiled by FactSet) and roughly flat relative to the same period last year.

  • $3.48 billion in Q4 operating income across its three operating segments (Entertainment, Experiences, and Sports), just shy of Wall Street expectations of $3.51 billion.

  • $352 million in Q4 streaming profit, up 39% from the same quarter last year. For its full fiscal year, ended September, Disney reported streaming profit of $1.33 billion, more than 9x the year prior.

  • $10 billion in full-year operating profit for its Experiences unit, which includes parks. Disney’s domestic parks profit grew 9% to $920 million on the quarter.

Across its direct-to-consumer and streaming offerings, the studio reported 218.3 million global subscribers as of the end of September, in line with expectations but down about 8% from last year. That number was likely impacted by the company’s decision toward the end of the quarter to pull Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show off the air for a week. A report from Antenna Research found that roughly 7.1 million subscribers canceled their Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions during that month, far above the three-month average cancellation rate of those services.

Last month, Disney boosted the monthly cost of its flagship streaming service by $3 for the ad-free tier — its fourth price hike in four years. The service now costs 172% more than it did six years ago.

On the linear television side, Disney is embroiled in its longest carriage dispute ever, with YouTube TV. The blackout has been ongoing since October 30, surpassing Disney’s standoff with DirecTV last year for its longest stalemate. Two consecutive weeks of ESPN’s Monday Night Football haven’t been available on the pay-TV provider, which is expected to pass Comcast as the largest US pay-TV service next year.

According to Morgan Stanley, Disney is losing about $4.3 million per day during the dispute, which entered its 14th day on Thursday. The New York Times reported that Disney CEO Bob Iger and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have become more involved in the talks amid pressure from FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

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Opendoor surges on news that it’s being re-added to Russell indexes

Shares of Opendoor Technologies are spiking after the company announced it’s been selected for inclusion in the Russell 3000 Index.

Being added to indexes often brings along with it flows from funds that track those benchmarks.

“Inclusion in the Russell 3000 Index typically means membership in either the large-cap Russell 1000 Index or the small-cap Russell 2000 Index, as well as in relevant growth and value style indexes,” per the press release.

These additions will be effective after June 26.

What a difference a year makes: Opendoor was removed from the Russell 2000 at about this time last year because its share price had failed to hold $1. The flows associated with getting booted from the Russell 2000 was cited as a reason for elevated short interest on the stock, which one Redditor (u/gregw134) argued made Opendoor an attractive buy — months before its parabolic surge.

Since then, the company has picked up a horde of investors (the so-called “$OPEN ARMY”), overhauled its management ranks, and appears to be on the precipice of breaking even.

Eric Jackson, the architect of the explosion in retail attention on Opendoor, shouted out that Redditor’s research in an interview with Sherwood News:

“That was a great post. It was a really thoughtful post. Really, really detailed. I think I buy into probably 90% to 95% of what he’s saying. And I didn’t know about the whole ETF unloading, kicking it out of the Russell 2000, as a potential reason why it dipped down to $0.50 a couple of weeks ago.”

It’s also a strong session for stocks geared to the real estate market in general, with the fever in long-term bond yields seemingly well and truly broken.

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IREN rallies after securing GPUs to boost run-rate revenues to $4.4 billion

IREN jumped postmarket on Tuesday after management announced that they’d secured supply to make good on their recent deal with Nvidia.

The data company reached a $1.6 billion agreement with Dell for air-cooled Blackwell systems to service its AI cloud contract with the chip designer announced earlier this month.

The stock has pared much of its gains in early trading on Wednesday.

This previously revealed partnership will see IREN build out data centers designed by Nvidia to optimize for its hardware. Some of that compute will then be utilized by Nvidia, which also received warrants to invest up to $2.1 billion in IREN.

Once these systems are up and running in early 2027, IREN said that its annualized run rate would rise to $4.4 billion from $3.7 billion.

“Securing capacity and accelerating commissioning are our top priorities in a market where time-to-compute is everything,” IREN cofounder and CEO Daniel Roberts said in a statement. “Our relationship with Dell ensures access to hardware at the scale and speed the market demands.”

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Zscaler plummets after revenue guidance falls short of estimates

The market has deeply ingrained software-phobia right now, as traders are highly sensitive to anything software-related giving off any whiff of AI-related weakness. So, its not a huge surprise to see Zscaler down more than 20% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the cloud security company gave a softer customer growth outlook than expected, despite reporting solid results for its fiscal Q3.

Zscaler announced better-than-expected results across its key metrics for the quarter ended April 30, 2026, including revenue of $850 million (topping analyst estimates of $835 million, compiled by Bloomberg), annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $3.53 billion (vs. the $3.51 billion expected), and adjusted earnings per share of $1.08 (vs. expectations of $1.01).

But Zscalers ability to continue its winning streak is the main question — and as far as the company’s early guidance for new customer additions, its future looks bleaker than expected. The security firm now anticipates total ARR and revenue growth of 16% to 17% for fiscal 2027. In the nearer term, Zscaler also expects Q4 revenue to fall between $875 million and $878 million, with its upper limit below Wall Street estimates of $879 million.

Bloomberg Intelligence analysts noted that Zscaler’s fiscal 2027 ARR growth figure “suggests muted new customer additions are likely to weigh on the top line,” adding that the company “lacks identity security for AI agents in the suite, which may limit larger order closings.” Mizuho, RBC Capital Markets, and Evercore ISI analysts, similarly focusing on future guidance, also lowered their price targets for the stock following the call.

Separately, Citi analysts, who spoke to the companys management following the results, suggested that new customer growth could provide some upside, as new logo growth wasnt factored into the 2027 baseline. However, they also noted disruptions to the sales organization from two leadership changes, though the Zscalers CEO and CFO seem confident that those impacts will be absorbed, and dont expect disruptions at the quota-bearing level.

Peers CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks also sank around 2% before the bell on Wednesday.

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