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Best Entertainment Stocks Worth Watching - August 13th

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Key Points

  • Seven prominent entertainment stocks to watch include Alibaba Group, Paramount Global, SEA, and Warner Bros. Discovery, all of which represent various segments of the entertainment industry.
  • Alibaba Group's stock traded at $125.99, showcasing significant trading volume and a solid market capitalization of $300.45 billion.
  • Walt Disney's share price increased to $116.13, with a market cap of $208.80 billion and various content production segments enhancing its market presence.
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Alibaba Group, Paramount Global, SEA, Arista Networks, Roblox, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Walt Disney are the seven Entertainment stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Entertainment stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose core business involves creating, distributing or monetizing entertainment content and experiences—ranging from film and television studios to music labels, gaming firms, streaming platforms and theme parks. By investing in these equities, shareholders gain exposure to consumer spending on movies, music, video games and related leisure services. Their performance often hinges on hit releases, evolving media technologies and shifts in audience tastes. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Entertainment stocks within the last several days.

Alibaba Group (BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others.

NYSE BABA traded up $3.57 on Wednesday, hitting $125.99. 13,114,362 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 21,451,295. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19, a quick ratio of 1.55 and a current ratio of 1.55. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $116.00 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $119.86. The firm has a market capitalization of $300.45 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.92, a P/E/G ratio of 1.75 and a beta of 0.17. Alibaba Group has a 52-week low of $77.74 and a 52-week high of $148.43.

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Paramount Global (PSKY)

Paramount Global is a media and entertainment company which creates premium content and experiences for audiences. The company's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount , Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others.

NASDAQ PSKY traded up $4.76 on Wednesday, hitting $15.73. 66,064,373 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 10,549,021. The company has a quick ratio of 1.21, a current ratio of 1.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.83. The firm has a market capitalization of $10.61 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -524.16, a PEG ratio of 2.79 and a beta of 1.17. Paramount Global has a 52-week low of $9.95 and a 52-week high of $16.06.

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SEA (SE)

Sea Ltd. is an internet and mobile platform company, which engages in the provision of online gaming services. It operates through the following segments: Digital Entertainment, E-Commerce, and Digital Financial Services. The Digital Entertainment segment offers and develops mobile and PC online games.

Shares of NYSE:SE traded up $0.69 on Wednesday, hitting $174.81. 5,316,339 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,660,971. SEA has a 12 month low of $75.67 and a 12 month high of $181.76. The stock has a market capitalization of $102.98 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 123.25 and a beta of 1.58. The business's 50 day simple moving average is $156.41 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $141.34. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.51 and a quick ratio of 1.49.

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Arista Networks (ANET)

Arista Networks, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, and sale of data-driven, client to cloud networking solutions for data center, campus, and routing environments in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. Its cloud networking solutions consist of Extensible Operating System (EOS), a publish-subscribe state-sharing networking operating system offered in combination with a set of network applications.

Shares of NYSE:ANET traded down $4.33 on Wednesday, hitting $136.92. 4,811,380 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 10,616,692. Arista Networks has a 12 month low of $59.43 and a 12 month high of $141.99. The stock has a market capitalization of $172.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 53.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.27 and a beta of 1.37. The business's 50 day simple moving average is $107.49 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $95.44.

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Roblox (RBLX)

Roblox Corporation develops and operates an online entertainment platform in the United States and internationally. It offers Roblox Studio, a free toolset that allows developers and creators to build, publish, and operate 3D experiences, and other content; Roblox Client, an application that allows users to explore 3D experience; and Roblox Cloud, which provides services and infrastructure that power the platform.

Shares of RBLX stock traded down $4.26 on Wednesday, hitting $125.27. The stock had a trading volume of 4,004,800 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,719,803. The company has a quick ratio of 0.97, a current ratio of 0.97 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.94. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $111.20 and a 200 day moving average price of $81.78. The company has a market cap of $80.80 billion, a PE ratio of -87.49 and a beta of 1.63. Roblox has a one year low of $37.50 and a one year high of $150.59.

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Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. operates as a media and entertainment company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Studios, Network, and DTC. The Studios segment produces and releases feature films for initial exhibition in theaters; produces and licenses television programs to its networks and third parties and direct-to-consumer services; distributes films and television programs to various third parties and internal television; and offers streaming services and distribution through the home entertainment market, themed experience licensing, and interactive gaming.

Warner Bros. Discovery stock traded up $0.95 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $12.17. The stock had a trading volume of 33,661,576 shares, compared to its average volume of 46,929,348. Warner Bros. Discovery has a 52 week low of $6.78 and a 52 week high of $13.86. The company has a market cap of $29.86 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 40.52, a PEG ratio of 2.56 and a beta of 1.57. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.92, a current ratio of 1.04 and a quick ratio of 1.04. The business's 50 day moving average price is $11.56 and its 200-day moving average price is $10.34.

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Walt Disney (DIS)

The Walt Disney Company operates as an entertainment company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Entertainment, Sports, and Experiences. The company produces and distributes film and television video streaming content under the ABC Television Network, Disney, Freeform, FX, Fox, National Geographic, and Star brand television channels, as well as ABC television stations and A+E television networks; and produces original content under the ABC Signature, Disney Branded Television, FX Productions, Lucasfilm, Marvel, National Geographic Studios, Pixar, Searchlight Pictures, Twentieth Century Studios, 20th Television, and Walt Disney Pictures banners.

NYSE DIS traded up $2.41 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $116.13. The stock had a trading volume of 3,413,188 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,820,805. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $119.16 and a 200 day moving average of $108.02. The stock has a market cap of $208.80 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.20, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.63 and a beta of 1.56. Walt Disney has a 52-week low of $80.10 and a 52-week high of $124.69. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32, a quick ratio of 0.66 and a current ratio of 0.72.

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