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The March start date means Paramount will owe more than $1 billion in daily penalties before a judge ever rules on the deal

CEO David Ellison remains confident, citing regulatory approvals and market data to defend the $110 billion deal.

Paramount Skydance (PSKY) just reported its second quarter results, with sales of US$6.91b and net income of US$41m. Sales for the first half reached US$14.26b, with net income of US$209m. See our latest analysis for Paramount Skydance. Despite the Q2 earnings beat and progress toward the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, Paramount Skydance’s recent 7 day share price return of 5.41% sits against a weaker backdrop. The year to date share price return is down 36.42% and the 5 year total...

Paramount Skydance (NasdaqGS:PSKY) has received formal clearance from the European Commission for its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. This approval addresses a key regulatory step in Europe after reviews in multiple major jurisdictions. The decision was announced as most global regulatory approvals for the transaction have now been secured. For investors following Paramount Skydance, the company operates at the intersection of filmed entertainment, television and streaming, where...

A federal judge has set a March 2027 trial date for the antitrust challenges to Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Paramount CEO David Ellison said Tuesday that the legal battle over his proposed multibillion-dollar takeover of Warner Bros.Ellison's Paramount Skydance agreed late last month to delay its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros.

Paramount’s streaming service continued to grow in the latest quarter, helping to narrowly offset another sales decline for its television unit.

A California federal judge said Tuesday that the antitrust trial will begin March 2 with an expectation that it will run for 12 court days. The timeline the judge laid out in a written order is much later than the November 2026 start date Paramount had sought. The order will prove costly for Paramount.

Warner Bros. Discovery heads into Q2 earnings with NBA ad losses, linear-TV declines and deal costs offset by a strong HBO Max content slate.

Vince Lombardi once said “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” Hollywood has seen this movie before, and only a decade ago.

While the market focuses on streaming wars, a different category is quietly inflecting inside the business. Monthly players for cloud games have increased 11x since last October. This adoption is already outpacing the company's earlier push into mobile games, suggesting a new engagement engine is taking hold.

Besides Wall Street's top-and-bottom-line estimates for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), review projections for some of its key metrics to gain a deeper understanding of how the company might have fared during the quarter ended June 2026.

After a relentless pile-on, Warner Bros. Discovery finally caught a break this Friday. WBD shares jumped 3%, while Paramount ticked up 1.6%, driven by a Wall Street Journal report that California Governor Gavin Newsom is growing increasingly concerned about the state’s antitrust lawsuit aiming to block the studio’s mega-merger. Here is the breakdown of the latest plot twist in the Hollywood merger saga: The Governor’s Stance: Behind closed doors, Newsom has reportedly warned that blocking Paramo

Consumer stocks were mixed late Friday afternoon, with the State Street Consumer Staples Select Sect

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

Its moderate long-run correlation to the broad market says much of the ride is genuinely its own story, and its volatility says that ride is a rough one.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

David Ellison insists his blockbuster media merger is still on track, but a legal standoff with a coalition of state attorneys general is about to flip an abstract delay into a very concrete and very expensive problem.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.

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Paramount Skydance has agreed to a deal that could stretch completion of its merger to June 2027. The companies are stuck in limbo until then, given that WBD agreed in principle for the deal.

Paramount Skydance, Uber and Stem fell to fresh annual lows on Monday amid growing regulatory, competitive, and financial concerns.

Warner Bros. Discovery stock Monday hit its lowest point since the company’s merger with Paramount Skydance was reached in February as Wall Street appears to be putting little more than a 50% chance that the deal will get done. Warner Bros. stock dropped 1.8% Monday to $25.28, ending about 18% below the $31-a-share cash offer from Paramount, whose stock also declined Monday. Warner Bros. stock had been trading around $27 in June.

Warner Bros. alleges Amazon induced a contract breach.

Wall Street analysts are reshuffling their bets ahead of the busiest earnings week of the quarter, and the moves span everything from legacy automakers to crypto miners to space launch companies. Find out which names just got upgraded, downgraded, or picked up for the first time.

The companies can’t combine yet, meaning promised cost savings and strategic moves are on hold while rivals push ahead.

Morningstar analyst views potential $2 billion costs as manageable.

The consensus fair value estimate for Paramount Skydance has shifted from US$14.57 to US$11.79, pointing to a meaningful reset in how analysts are framing potential equity value. This pullback sits alongside sharply different reactions to the planned US$110b Warner Bros. Discovery deal, with some research emphasizing execution upside and others focused on leverage, debt costs, and integration risk that are reflected in extreme price targets such as US$14 and US$2. As you read on, you will see...

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is back in focus after Paramount Skydance agreed to delay its proposed US$110b acquisition until at least June 2027, following lawsuits from several state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America. See our latest analysis for Warner Bros. Discovery. The barrage of merger headlines has weighed on short term sentiment, with Warner Bros. Discovery’s share price down 4.1% over the past week and 9.6% year to date, even as its 1 year total shareholder return...

Paramount Skydance stock has fallen 77.4% over the past five years, yet its current valuation checks suggest the market may now be pricing the company more pessimistically than those fundamentals imply. Over five years, Paramount Skydance has declined 77.4%, which sets expectations low and puts extra focus on whether the current price already reflects much of the past disappointment. The planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and the extended exchange and tender offers can support the...