Disney (NYSE: DIS) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Burbank, California, United States that owns 12 consumer brands across 2 categories, and has 4 recorded transactions.[1]
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Disney acquired most of Twenty-First Century Fox for about $71.3 billion in cash and stock, after outbidding Comcast. The film and television studios, National Geographic and the Star and Hulu stakes transferred; the Fox news, sports and broadcast assets were spun into the separate Fox Corporation.
Disney acquired Lucasfilm from George Lucas for about $4.05 billion in cash and stock, taking ownership of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Lucas has said he directed much of the proceeds to educational philanthropy.
Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion. Marvel had emerged from bankruptcy a decade earlier having licensed away film rights to several of its best-known characters, which is why Spider-Man remains entangled with Sony.
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.
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Disney owns 12 consumer brands tracked here, including ABC, Disney, National Geographic, Marvel, 20th Century Studios and Disney+.
Yes. Disney is headquartered in Burbank, California, United States and was founded in 1923.
Disney is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as DIS on the NYSE.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is 20th Century Studios, National Geographic and Searchlight Pictures on 20 March 2019.
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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