Warner Bros. Discovery: Follow That Cash

Summary

  • Warner Bros. Discovery is exceeding deleveraging guidelines, but the market is not giving management credit for it.
  • The market reacted negatively to the net loss due to noncash charges, but it does not change the cash generation future of the overall acquisition story.
  • Cash flow and free cash flow are growing despite market conditions, but the market is not paying attention to it.
  • DTC improvement is now sticky enough to likely be permanent. Now management will build on that improvement in the future.
  • Any management that makes this much debt retirement progress is a good bet to position the company divisions well in the future.

The famous water tower of Warner Brothers in Burbank. Warner Bros is an American entertainment company.

Tero Vesalainen

Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD)'s recent Q3 earnings announcement demonstrates just how illogical the market can sometimes be. The single most important thing in a leveraged buyout is to deleverage as fast as possible. Management is getting zero credit

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