SA Editor Jason Aycock

@Mike Nadel Mike, you gotta know the difference between 4:28 pm and 7:02 pm o.O

@Bgraham75 Deviation between actual and per-share is always a possibility on every report, because of the added factor of share count changes

It looks like you are questioning editors for reporting a 5.4% total increase that you are saying is only a 5.1% increase on a per-share basis (actually 3.6%); these don't look wildly divergent

@PauloCostaSilva Where are you seeing "slumps" ... ?

@Naysay Analysis Long-term debt at $14.6B, but net debt accounts for liquidity and they have a few billion in cash and other short-term.

@424270 Maybe so. Seems like lots of questions to be settled -- probably at next earnings. Though chatter is that a name to lead the project is close.

We've gone in to clarify the dollar figures and magnitude on the EBITDA and EPS estimates.

@bluescorpion0 It was lower with a pandemic hit in March 2020 -- but not by too much.

@brf69 Folks -- some help with making sense of this:

@LAND Man21 This headline does NOT say they are "only" paying $8.61B -- but it is making clear that *Disney is saying they are paying $8.61B.* It doesn't say what Comcast said at that time, so obviously a lot of room for ambiguity left to sort out, as the item makes clear.

@brf69 For those who want a headline to say "at least" $8.61B -- that is the least newsy part here, as that is the floor value the two companies agreed to more than four years ago. So of course they will pay "at least" $8.61B -- *assuming the deal goes forward with Disney buying out Comcast.* That is the real news here, that Comcast and Disney didn't up and decide that Comcast would buy all of Hulu instead ... Disney will make a payment this month, and the two will start prep for divesting the financial interest and sorting out the final number changing hands.

@Edwin Wingo You mean like their headlines like these:*Cinemark Rises in Premarket After Strong ‘Barbenheimer’ Weekend
*Mattel Rallies on ‘Barbie’ Movie’s $155 Million Opening Weekend
*‘BARBIE’ MOVIE’S $155M OPENING WEEKEND IS YEAR’S BIGGEST
*‘BARBIE’ POSTS $155M IN DOMESTIC WKND BOX OFFICE:WARNER BROS.

@HPBunker You are right that it's wrong. After reviewing, in the item I've corrected a transcript error that called those billions rather than "hundred million" (off by a factor of 10)

@smf72 This index news almost always drops around 5:15 p.m. ET.

@Archman Investor seekingalpha.com/...

@edhoverter The end of calendar year 2027. I'm adding in text there to help clarify.

@wboz "Over-the-top" services have become synonymous with "direct to consumer," so they are talking about an ESPN focused on streaming like Disney+, rather than through the cable bundle.

@Jason Aycock Updating on this: If you sign up for alerts you're supposed to get *a* copy of a story, but in the case of this story it mailed new alerts every time I added updated information ... which was often, for this live event.
We are trying to sort out what went awry but it wasn't on purpose and sorry for the too-many alerts.

@GameBuzz

OK. For what it's worth, the Seeking Alpha news team editors (the side I work on) do not take positions pro or con a stock -- while the articles side (like an editorial section) most definitely does.

For sure, the top 10 games in sales would be easier to parse if it were in a table format rather than the narrative format I needed to use above.

You helped introduce an interesting discussion point, which is that a focal point for TTWO analysts in recent months has been the schedule slowdown. See seekingalpha.com/...

Take-Two's NBA game came out a while back, so it has ceded some sales strength (especially lately) to EA, with 'Madden' and 'FIFA.'

@Archman Investor I suppose it depends on whether you think the Global Financial Crisis of '08 was historic

@Jonathan Selsick Yes -- I made this unclear; I meant to suggest it accounts for the impact, and changed it accordingly

@Andrew Shapiro This is some interesting context

@user1416 This was premarket *Wednesday.*