In the second fiscal quarter of 2025, the Walt Disney Company reported a net income of 3.2 billion U.S. dollars, up from a net loss of 20 million U.S. dollars in the same quarter of the previous year. Film studio's success The Walt Disney Company is well-known all over the world and has been famous for decades. Founded by Walt and Roy O. Disney in 1923, the company is popular among children and adults alike for its detailed cartoons as well as countless feature-length animations and shorts. For its contributions to the silver screen, Walt Disney Studios received 10 Academy Award nominations in 2023, as well as two wins. However, in 2025, the studio received just one nomination, marking a significant decline compared to previous years. Brand strength Not only is the company a household name loved for its merchandise, theme parks, and near timeless appeal, it is also one of the most valuable U.S. brands in the world. Despite the death of Walt Disney in 1966, the company has gone from strength to strength and kept up with the pace of every fast-moving market of which it is a part, with the most recent addition being streaming service Disney+. The Walt Disney Company has multiple assets, and its entertainment holdings include Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, Pixar, and ESPN Inc.

How much does Disney make a year? The Walt Disney Company generated a net income of **** billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year of 2024. This marks a growth of over ***** billion compared to 2020 when the company suffered a loss due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the parks, experiences, and products segment brought in around ** billion U.S. dollars less in 2020 than in 2019. The Walt Disney Company reports its numbers based on fiscal years that end late September/early October of the corresponding calendar year. Disney’s growing dominance After a wave of acquisitions in recent years and its plans to launch its own streaming service Disney+ to rival Netflix, Disney’s growth seems almost unstoppable. The company holds stakes in ESPN, acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019 (ten years after its acquisition of Marvel Entertainment) and also took on LucasFilm Ltd. Opinions on Disney’s expansion are mixed, with diehard Hollywood fans expressing concern that the company’s constant growth and the conglomeration of individual studios will deeply affect content and change the structure of Hollywood. Indeed, this has already happened to an extent, but with so many companies under one umbrella (that is, Disney), it will be curious to see whether the movie industry in particular will change as Disney’s stronghold over the industry increases.

In the fiscal year 2024, The Walt Disney Company held assets worth ****** billion U.S. dollars, down around five percent from ****** billion dollars a year earlier.The Walt Disney Company reports its numbers based on fiscal years that end late September/early October of the corresponding calendar year. Disney's revenue and its sources Also in the fiscal year 2024, Disney's global revenue reached a record-high ***** billion dollars, up three percent from **** billion dollars one year before. The growth was not homogenous across the company's operations, however, in the last quarter of fiscal 2024, Disney's core segments showed mixed revenue performance. The entertainment (including linear network, direct-to-consumer business, and content sales and licensing) — grew just by *** percent compared to the previous year, Similarly, the Experiences segment, which includes parks and cruises, rose by just *** percent compared to a year earlier, indicating slower growth than the ** percent increase seen in fiscal 2023. Overall, Disney's total revenue for the last quarter of 2024 increased by *** percent year-over-year. More subscribers, oscillating income Disney's flagship subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service continued to expand. In the first quarter of fiscal 2023, the number of Disney+ subscribers worldwide reached *** million. The Walt Disney Company struggled to generate as many gains as it did before the pandemic. In the fiscal year 2023, Disney's net income amounted to about **** billion dollars, a decline of ** percent compared to 2022. However, in fiscal year 2024, the company's net income surged to **** billion U.S. dollars, marking a significant recovery of over ***** billion U.S. dollars since 2020.

In the second fiscal quarter of 2025, the Walt Disney Company's experiences segment reported a net operating income of about 2.49 billion U.S. dollars. At the same time, the entertainment segment's net operating income amounted to around 1.26 billion dollars.

In the second fiscal quarter of 2025, The Walt Disney Company generated about 23.6 billion U.S. dollars in revenue. Company's revenues for the quarter show significant growth year-on-year. The Walt Disney Company: net income Disney's quarterly net income often varies wildly throughout each fiscal year, sometimes surpassing four or five billion U.S. dollars and other times dipping below one billion. In the fourth fiscal quarter of 2024, the company generated a net income of 460 million U.S. dollars. The company's segments As far as revenue is concerned, the company's most lucrative area is its media and entertainment business. The Walt Disney Company announced a revenue of 91.36 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from 88.9 billion U.S. dollars a year earlier – an annual growth of about three percent. Of this revenue, over 41 billion U.S. dollars was generated in its media and entertainment segment in 2024.

In 2024, the Walt Disney Company generated a revenue of nearly 34.2 billion U.S. dollars with its parks, and experiences, an increase of around 4.9 percent from the year before. The company's biggest revenue source was its entertainment segment, which generated revenues of over 41 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. This marked a growth of 1.4 percent year-on-year. The total assets of the Walt Disney Company amounted to more than 196 billion U.S. dollars in 2024.Additional info: Walt Disney Company's revenue by operating segmentIn 2023, the Walt Disney Company generated over 19 percent of its revenue through its sports segment which includes the ESPN properties. This revenue stream brought the company 17 billion U.S. dollars that year.The experiences segment was the second-largest revenue source, generating a total of 32.6 billion U.S. dollars. It is a very successful segment – Disney’s parks take the top spots in the ranking of the most visited amusement and theme parks worldwide. The Magic Kingdom Park in Bay Lake, Florida, ranked first in 2022 with 17 million visitors. The largest revenue stream – with over 40 billion U.S. dollars – was the entertainment business. This segment includes linear networks, direct-to-consumer (DTC) business and content sales and licensing. The DTC operations comprise of the company's streaming services such as Disney+, Disney+ Hotstar, and Hulu. This subsegment brought in more than five billion U.S. dollars in the last quarter of 2023.

Disney+ Hotstar, India's leading video OTT provider, reported a revenue of over ** billion Indian rupees for the financial year 2022. Despite increasing revenue figures recently, the company recorded losses. That same year, this amounted to over ***** billion rupees due to high expenses. In November 2024, The Walt Disney Company entered a joint venture with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) that merged the former's Star-branded entertainment and sports channels and Disney+ Hotstar streaming service with RIL's channels and streaming service.