Disney Stock Soars to All-Time High and Record $300 Billion Market Cap After Epic Investor Day

The deal ended a seven-month standoff between Roku and WarnerMedia, HBO Max’s parent company, insuring the streaming service would be available to Roku’s 46 million active accounts by Christmas Day, when “Wonder Woman 1984” is set to debut on the service.Roku opened at $346 per share on Thursday, easily topping its previous all-time high of $336.17, set earlier this month.

Worsley restaurant have cancelled their ‘Christmas market’ event after being told they could be fined.

Michael Sharpe announced his resignation yesterday.

The Backstreet Boys‘ shocked fans on Dec. 11, when they released a hot new song, titled “Matches”, with Britney Spears, 39.

Wall Street analysts on Friday raised their stock price targets for the Walt Disney Co., lauding the streaming content plans and increased subscriber goals unveiled at a Thursday investor day, and the stock hit an all-time high. However, Cowen analyst Doug Creutz, in the headline of his report, also noted that "Disney promises more of everything for direct-to-consumer, except profits." Disney shares jumped in early Friday trading and reached an all-time high of $171.

Refresh for updates Coming out of Disney Investor Day, there were a number of release date changes, many of which were announced yesterday, i.e. Black Panther moving from May 6, 2022 to July 8, 2022.

Disney shares are once again in record territory, bucking an overall selloff in the markets to rise 14% to north of $176. Trading volume is more than three times its normal level.

Even though a combined 100 movie and TV series titles were announced today during Disney Investor Day, with 80% of them going to Disney+, let it be noted that the Burbank, CA studio didn’t burn down its 2021 theatrical release schedule, like WarnerMedia did last week, in order to keep the fire going on its streaming service.

Disney unveiled dozens of new films and TV shows for Disney+ during its investor day Thursday and confirmed several others. Here is a rundown of what is headed to the streamer in the coming weeks, months and years.

Disney+ hits 87 million subscribers, and it’s getting more expensiveWhen Disney launched its streaming service a year ago, the company estimated it would attract 60-90 million subscribers by 2024. On Thursday, it was announced that the streaming service has blown past that mark to 86.8 million subs in the first year alone.

Disney Investor Day premiered a clip from the forthcoming animated Marvel Studios project What If…? As the title suggests, prepare for the unexpected.

It might not entirely be Bob Chapek’s Walt Disney Company yet, but today’s virtual Investor Day made it very clear that Baby Yoda is boss.

The Marvel universe is coming fast and furious to Disney+ in 2021 with the much anticipated The Falcon and the Winter Soldier landing next spring.

Almost 30 years after the last movie, Whoopi Goldberg is coming back as Deloris Wilson.

Disney+ is going rogue with another new Star Wars series.

Just as we told you, a Mandalorian spinoff series is already in the works from Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, in fact there are two: The Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka Tano, that famed Clone Wars cartoon character brought to live by Rosario Dawson this past season.  Lucasfilm Boss Kathleen Kennedy announced the news today at Disney Investor Day, and she expects one of the series to hit next Christmas on Disney+.