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Netflix Inc.NFLXBUYDec 24, 2025Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 11, 2026. Market Open.
Recently disappointing. Price now below 200-day MA, which has started to roll over. It's still the leader. Going back to its roots of creating content, and now getting into live sports. Trades at 24.5x forward PE, and ~23% growth. Valuation makes a lot of sense, but technical structure a bit soft. His team is evaluating.
Clear global leader in high-quality video content streaming. Pricing power in the face of competition, best-in-class customer retention. He expects revenue to grow at double-digit pace, margins should expand.
Aggressive investment in movies and shows, but increasingly podcasts and live events. Capitalizing on digital ads. Earnings should grow at 22% compound pace for next 3 years. Trades ~22x PE, good tradeoff between value and growth. Share buybacks. No dividend.
The advertising business is very good and they are cracking down on passwords. It has been beaten up because of its pursuit of Warner Brothers. It didn't go through so the stock has started recovering. It is revisiting and adding new content, and building out its sports contracts. He sees earning growth at 20%.
She added more Netflix and is slowly adding to it. She only recently started buying it for the first time, because it was always too expensive in PE. They're not buying Warners, so their story is much simpler. There's 20% earnings growth, 12-14% revenue group as operating margins expand and resume buybacks. Trades at a not-cheap 29x forward vs. 35x historic. Is still well below highs.
Paramount needs the Warner Bros. deal more than NFLX does. Family trust has now been taken out, with Ellison backing the whole thing, so the story becomes more difficult for Warner. From a regulatory view, this would put Paramount in charge of an awful lot of media.
As for NFLX itself, this is the first time it's really bought something; has been homegrown up till now. If they can get this asset, it'll have a much broader and deeper catalogue, as that's what it spends a lot of its money on. Good deal if they can get it. Hollywood hates NFLX, but the reality is that streaming is where movies are going. Hollywood's dying a slow death.
Multiple's only about 28x, whereas it was previously 100x. If they walk away from the deal, stock will go up. If they do the deal, it'll be great for them in the long run. Great time to be buying. You don't lose too much by dipping in at these levels. May up their bid, and that would hurt the stock a bit. The NFLX bid seems to be Warner Bros' preferred one.