Longleaf Partners Comments on DreamWorks Animation

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Oct 28, 2015

Film studio DreamWorks Animation (NASDAQ:DWA) was down 34% in the quarter. A change in accounting for DreamPlace sales, currency impacts, and slower-than-expected merchandise licensing agreements cut in half revenue guidance for its developing Consumer Products division. We believe merchandise licensing will gain traction over time and deliver more recurring revenues, offering significant upside to our DreamWorks appraisal. DreamWorks’ other core businesses performed well. The strong results of the feature film Home highlights the company’s creative talent in generating engaging content that will build the film library. In addition, newer growth initiatives in the Television segment continued to ramp strongly, and the New Media segment, which contains AwesomenessTV, doubled revenues with strong gross margins.

From Longleaf Partners' third quarter 2015 commentary.