Disney Beats Q2 With $25.17 Billion as the 8-K Folds the FCC Cliff Into Safe-Harbor Language
Disney's Q2 prints revenue +7%, streaming OI +88% to $582M, and an 8.7% rally — while the 8-K still does not say the words ABC license.
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Disney's Q2 prints revenue +7%, streaming OI +88% to $582M, and an 8.7% rally — while the 8-K still does not say the words ABC license.
Lisa Su's tens-of-billions line, a 57% data-center gain, and Meta's 1 GW MI450 ramp confirmed — AMD becomes the second chip beneficiary of the AI-capex cohort split.
Novo Nordisk Q1 — pill sales beat consensus by 95%, 1.3M scripts, 65% of new U.S. obesity starts, stock +6.7% in Copenhagen, full-year guidance raised.
The headline cut from $40B to $26.6B is the easy story; the part underwriters now have to explain is a single page where OpenAI is customer, lender, and warrant-holding shareholder at once.
Pfizer beat the headline and reaffirmed guidance with net income down nine percent and zero buybacks in 2026 — the precise inverse of the Apple and Berkshire prints this week.
Greg Abel said Berkshire won't do AI for the sake of AI as Apple authorized $100B in buybacks and Cerebras's IPO was cut from $40B to $26.6B — the disciplined cohort isn't reluctant, it's deliberate.
SpaceX's prospectus must hit EDGAR between May 15 and May 22, and the related-party section it inherits from Tesla's amended 10-K is no longer a footnote.
Three Musk entities, one related-party schedule, and the SEC's reading lawyers have nine days to decide what the SpaceX buyers will actually see.
Meta is choosing AI compute over headcount; Apple and Berkshire are choosing capital return over AI capex — both are 2026 disciplines, mirrored.
Coinbase Q1 prints after-hours Thursday into bitcoin's 22% drawdown with the buy-side bar reset 49% lower and subscription revenue carrying the call.
Cloudflare Q1 prints after-hours Thursday into the same week as the Anthropic civilian-agency EO table reads, putting federal procurement next to ARR on the call.
Block reports Q1 after Thursday's close with $2.8B gross profit guided; Cash App's bitcoin ecosystem revenue is preliminarily $1.7B against a 22% bitcoin drawdown.
LION's investor day is now seven days out as the Paramount-WBD regulatory week and Disney's Wednesday Q2 print frame what scale costs in the new FCC environment.
Apple's $100B buyback record date hits May 11 with the dividend payable May 14 — the same window that frames John Ternus's September 1 COO handover.
Disney filed its Q2 8-K Wednesday with no separate filing for the FCC's eight-station early-renewal order, confirming Microsoft's 10-Q-without-8-K precedent as the disclosure architecture.