Published on 29 May 2024 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance

The past three years for Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) investors has not been profitable

As an investor its worth striving to ensure your overall portfolio beats the market average. But the risk of stock picking is that you will likely buy under-performing companies. Unfortunately, that's been the case for longer term The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) shareholders, since the share price is down 43% in the last three years, falling well short of the market return of around 19%. Unfortunately the share price momentum is still quite negative, with prices down 9.1% in thirty days. Importantly, this could be a market reaction to the recently released financial results. You can check out the latest numbers in our company report.

So let's have a look and see if the longer term performance of the company has been in line with the underlying business' progress.