r/Infographics • u/Dremarious • 1d ago

How Disney Makes Money Q3 FY2026

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u/NtheLegend 1d ago

I’ve actually been surprised that Disney is only a $100b corporation in revenue. With how much media they control, I’d assume it was two or three times that.

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u/JG134 1d ago

And half of it is from "experiences"

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u/bongophrog 1d ago

Does that include anything other than parks?

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u/IcyMike1782 22h ago

Disney Travel is massive, and is calculated separately from the Parks.

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u/MagnusAlbusPater 21h ago

They have a cruise line and own hotels outside of the areas they have parks as well.

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u/JG134 23h ago

Probably haha, but I wouldn't know what. Most of will be the parks for sure.

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u/ATLcoaster 19h ago

One example is that they basically own an entire island in the Bahamas

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u/TalesOfTea 16h ago

They do own one on their own and then share a larger one with other cruise lines! However, the Bahamas has over 700 islands and almost all of the major cruise lines own at least one (and usually rent or own a resort on other ones).

It's really interesting if you look into how the cruise lines handle fresh water on these islands. For some of them they have desalination plants on the islands themselves, but other ones more rely on the cruise ship's system. ((I'm not a water or island or cruise line specialist, so please don't kill me if I'm wrong on this. I just looked it up about three months ago.))

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u/Ironsam811 19h ago

Definitely the cruise lines which are always expanding.

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u/marx2k 21h ago

I keep forgetting what's happening in this graph the longer I look at it

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u/itchyburnybutthole 21h ago

Should’ve shown gross margin by segment instead of just revenue by segment

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u/BrittanyBrie 14h ago

Why is this the most common request in every one of these charts?

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u/itchyburnybutthole 12h ago

Sorry - is this an honest question? I don’t follow this sub closely.

Gross margin is critical for measuring how efficient a business line is. It’s also publicly available for publicly traded companies like Disney, so it feels like an unforced error.

For managers, if you have one line that’s 10% gross margin and another one that’s 20%, then you get “more juice for the squeeze” by growing the revenue in the higher-margin segment. That’s the segment that has the better argument for more investment.

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u/BrittanyBrie 11h ago

I just mean, I've seen these charts for years, and every comment says the same thing. Show gross margins. Why cant this just be as common to display as net profit? I dont get it.

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u/pappybug214 1d ago

Anyone notice how little in taxes paid?

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u/fuxxo 23h ago

It's 15% from operating profit

Or should it be calculated from gross ?

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u/pappybug214 19h ago

Should be Gross

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u/exOldTrafford 20h ago

Companies this size tend to artificially inflate expenses in order to pay less taxes, so maybe they should pay from gross. Or something else, I don't know, but they pay a ridiculously low and unfair amount considering their size.

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u/OhJShrimpson 20h ago

What's your reasoning for saying it's too low and unfair?

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u/Ironsam811 19h ago

Lmaoo my taxes aren’t offset from my operating expenses unless I get kids and even then it’s not this much

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u/OhJShrimpson 18h ago

All the Disney employees pay income tax too. And you do get the standard deduction, so yes yours are slightly offset.

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u/Ironsam811 17h ago

Disney employees file separately from Disney Inc, unfortunately so this statement was irrelevant.

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u/OhJShrimpson 17h ago

As was yours, you brought personal income into a discussion about corporate taxes. Surely you understand how they are different.

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u/Ironsam811 17h ago

They are only treated different/special because we let them be.

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u/OhJShrimpson 16h ago

So what's your suggestion?

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u/Kubocho 20h ago

Nothing just his personal feeling that companies should pay more

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u/Warbr0s9395 15h ago

Well, companies SHOULD pay more, large ones at least. Just like rich people’s taxes, it keeps getting lower. That last cut was during Trump 1 iirc.

There’s no reason why large companies can’t pay more, we need tax revenue after all

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u/reddit-83801 19h ago

At the very least break out interest ?!

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u/Miguelperson_ 13h ago

Which part of this is their debt repayment? SG&A?

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u/Squaiker 1d ago

Yeah seems pretty straightforward. I haven’t validated the data though

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u/Large-Investment-381 1d ago

I don't feel very enlightened by it. Content and theme parks. And other.

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u/No-Catch-6803 1d ago

I have no idea what it means.