This slideshow traces how Disney spent its $53 billion worth of revenue over the past 12 months.

1. Disney's Billions
How the House of Mouse spent $53 billion

2. $53billionDisney's revenue (ttm)

3. $55 billion
$53 billion
$50 billion
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4. $0 billion
$500 billion
The S&P 500 Companies, Ranked by Revenue
Disney:
50th

5. Not all of this falls to the bottom line.

6. 73%
Where does Disney's revenue go?
$53
Billion
Expenses ate up $38.6 billion.$38.6 billion

7. Where does Disney's revenue go?
73%
9%
$53
Billion
Taxes accounted for another $5.1 billion.$5.1 billion

8. Where does Disney's revenue go?
73%
9%
18%
$53
Billion
Leaving net income of $8.4 billion

9. Where does Disney's revenue go?
73%
9%
6%
18%
$53
Billion
From this, it paid dividends totalling $3.1 billion

10. Where does Disney's revenue go?
73%
9%
6%
12%
18%
$53
Billion
And bought back common stock worth $6.1 billion
And bought back common stock worth $6.1 billion, yielding
a total payout ratio over 100%.

11. Interesting
observations3

12. $19.1B
$8.5B
$5.9B
$5.1B $4.5B
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The 10 Biggest Corporate Taxpayers in America
Based on income tax provisions, trailing twelve months
First, Disney is one of the 10
biggest taxpayers in America.

13. Second, Disney enjoys wider profit margins
than the typical large cap stock.
25%Disney's
pretax
operating
margin (ttm)
19%Average
pretax
operating
margin of the 100
biggest S&P 500
companies
(ttm)
17%Median

14. 0%
500%
1,000%
1,500%
2,000%
2,500%
3,000%
Disney's
Stock
S&P 500
Which, third,
explains this…

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