Netflix says it must acquire Warner Bros Discovery to compete with YouTube, but antitrust experts doubt regulators will buy that argument. The streaming giant's $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Dis... ...

Last week, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced plans to sell Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios and streaming service HBO Max to Netflix, following a bidding war that also ended with a hostile takeover bid by Paramount. The planned sale would create a mammoth streaming and production giant with intellectual property rights to beloved franchises including Batman and Harry Potter. It’s also sure to draw scrutiny from antitrust enforcers at the Department of Justice (DOJ).Is this a step toward more viewer-fr ...

Key Points Netflix's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. would add a ton of popular content to its catalog. The cash-and-stock deal will require Netflix to add up to $59 billion in debt to its books. AT&T spun off Warner Bros. in 2022, and since the media operation merged with Discovery, its challenges have continued. 10 stocks we like better than Netflix › Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) made a surprise announcement this month: It's planning to buy Warner Bros., which is still currently part of Warner Br ...

The world’s dominant streaming service, Netflix, has announced its planned acquisition of Warner Bros with a deal valued at US$82.7 billion (A$124.5 billion).The acquisition has provoked criticism from film fans, the creative community and the United States government, including concerns for the future of filmgoing. News of the acquisition was also followed by a hostile bid (a bid that goes directly to shareholders, not the board), from Paramount Skydance.Jane Fonda described the Netflix deal as “catastroph ...

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Photographer: Ethan Swope/Bloomberg Skepticism surrounding Netflix Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. triggered a $40 billion wipeout in the company’s market value in just six sessions. To retail traders, that’s a screaming buy signal. Amateur investors have been snapping up shares of the streaming giant even as it dropped 15% from Dec. 2 to Dec. 10, its worst six-session losing streak since May 2022, while Wall Street weighs the implications of a protracted bidding war. Netflix w ...

Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bullish stance on Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX).And retail traders should know.We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don't know. But when something this big happens with NFLX, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.So how do we know what these investors just did? Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted ...

Wall Street is starting to wonder if shares are oversold, even as the Warner Bros. Discovery takeover saga drags on. ...

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The Hollywood bidding war between Paramount Skydance and Netflix has created a meme frenzy. The two media giants are in an all-out battle for Warner Bros. Discovery after it accepted Netflix's offer to acquire its studio and streaming businesses for an equity value of $72 billion. David Ellison's Paramount launched a hostile $30-per-share bid for all of WBD on Monday.Warner Bros. Discovery owns the Warner Bros. film studio, HBO, the HBO Max streaming service, and TV networks such as CNN, TNT, and TruTV. It ...