Disney waves a magic wand of savings.

Disney waves a magic wand of savings.

Motley fool Money. I'm Deidro Willard here with Motley Full analyst Rick Meadars.

Rick, how you doing today?

I'm doing zippity-duda fantastic today, yeah, thank you.

Well, I'm wondering if Disney's earnings have something to do with that, because I consider you to be a Disney

Athusiano, a Disney bull perhaps.

And last night's earnings, you know, it seemed to be, it was definitely all over the place, but it seemed to send the message that the strategies working

earnings per share were up companies really done so well at cutting costs cut 500 million dollars million in SG&A expenses.

They're headed toward that $7.5 billion goal.

You know, it's not the most thrilling thing we've ever heard,

but how important are savings to Disney right now?

Right now, it's very important.

And again, this was $5.5 billion a year ago.

Back in February of 2023, Bob Eager said, hey,

I think we can save $.5 billion dollars in annual

savings costs in November just a couple months ago they said all right we can

actually raise this 7.5 billion now he's saying meet or exceed 7.5 billion. That exceed word is new. So the fact that savings are happening

and you're saying great what does this mean that Disney found a few more Disney

dollars under its cushion, sea cushions, sofa. But what it means is Disney right now,

on the top line, isn't a very exciting story organically.

It's had a couple of movies basically strike out

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