Pixar is owned by Disney (the United States, NYSE: DIS), which acquired the brand on 5 May 2006 for $7.4 billion.[1][2] Pixar was founded in 1986 in Emeryville, California and was independent until 2006.
Evidence: The Walt Disney Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Pixar began as a computer hardware division of Lucasfilm, was bought by Steve Jobs in 1986, and made Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated feature. Disney acquired it in 2006 for $7.4 billion, and its leadership then took over Disney's own animation studio.
Sentences about Pixar from Disney's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Retail The Company sells Disney-, Marvel-, Pixar- and Star Wars-branded products through Disney Store internet sites and retail locations.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Disney controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 10 of them in media & entertainment.
The 13 brands in animation studios on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is TOHO, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Science SARU | TOHO | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Doga Kobo | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| House of Cool | WildBrain | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Studio Bazooka | CJ ENM | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| DreamWorks Animation | Comcast | 🇺🇸 United States |
| NITRO PLUS | CyberAgent | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Tatsunoko Production | Nippon TV Holdings | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Toei Animation | Toei | 🇯🇵 Japan |
Disney is a publicly listed company headquartered in Burbank, California, United States, founded in 1923. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: DIS.
Disney was founded in 1923 by two brothers making short cartoons and is now the largest entertainment company in the world. Its purchases of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and most of 21st Century Fox mean a substantial share of the highest-grossing films ever made belong to one owner.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Pixar is not one of them.
Disney acquired Pixar for about $7.4 billion in stock, making Steve Jobs its largest individual shareholder. Pixar's leadership was then put in charge of Disney's own animation studio, which had been in decline for a decade.
The parent company of Pixar is Disney, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Pixar originated in the United States in 1986 and its owner, Disney, is also headquartered in the United States.
Disney completed its acquisition of Pixar on 5 May 2006, after announcing the deal on 24 January 2006. The deal was valued at $7.4 billion.
Pixar was an independent company from its founding in 1986 in Emeryville, California until Disney acquired it in 2006.
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Pixar is still owned by Disney. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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