Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Q4 Earnings: What To Expect

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Published Feb 22, 2024 02:00

Updated Feb 22, 2024 08:18

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Q4 Earnings: What To Expect

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Global entertainment and media company Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) will be reporting results tomorrow before the bell. Here's what you need to know.

Last quarter Warner Bros. Discovery reported revenues of $9.98 billion, up 1.6% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a decent quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts' earnings estimates.

Is Warner Bros. Discovery buy or sell heading into the earnings? Find out by reading the original article on StockStory.

This quarter analysts are expecting Warner Bros. Discovery's revenue to decline 5.4% year on year to $10.42 billion. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.01 per share.

The analysts covering the company have been growing increasingly bearish about the business heading into the earnings, with revenue estimates seeing six downward revisions over the last thirty days. The company missed Wall St's revenue estimates five times over the last two years.

Looking at Warner Bros. Discovery's peers in the media segment, some of them have already reported Q4 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Disney delivered top-line growth of 0.2% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.9% and News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) reported revenues up 2.6% year on year, exceeding estimates by 0.9%. Disney traded up 7.7% on the results, News Corp was flat on the results.

Read the full analysis of Disney's and News Corp's results on StockStory.

Investors in the media segment have had steady hands going into the earnings, with the stocks down on average 1.2% over the last month. Warner Bros. Discovery is down 7.5% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $15.3, compared to share price of $9.63.