Disney earnings

It was another happy quarter for Disney: The family entertainment giant delivered $9.6 billion in revenue, 6% ahead of where it was a year earlier, and beat analysts' targets. But let's check out the real hidden gems in Disney's earnings report.

Given the market's extreme and distressing gyrations over the past week, you'd be forgiven for thinking corporate earnings had been, on the whole, disappointing. But that's not actually the case: A large majority of public companies have performed quite well.

Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday posted a 54% jump in earnings in the latest quarter, beating analyst expectations thanks to higher advertising revenue at its ESPN and ABC television networks, stronger performance at its theme parks and cost cutting at its movie studio. Net income in the three months to...

It should be pretty quiet on the economic calendar this week, with only a few national reports due out. But iconic companies Walt Disney, Coca-Cola and Hasbro, among others, are scheduled to report quarterly results.

Two months after a Disney employee pled guilty of trying to sell information about earnings results in advance, the company is investigating the leak of its fourth-quarter earnings.

Driven by an increase in advertising revenue at its media networks and better ticket sales for some big studio hits, Walt Disney reported better than expected earnings Tuesday.