Bob Iger

Walt Disney’s outgoing executive chairman Bob Iger sold company stock worth well over $90 million in early June. According to an SEC filing late last week, Iger unloaded just over 600,000 shares with most priced between $178.74 and $179.81. A company spokesperson said the sale “is part of the diversification...

Walt Disney Chairman Bob Iger sold shares of the company worth $98.7 million, according to a regulatory filing late Thursday. Iger sold 550,570 shares of Disney’s common stock, the filing showed. He sold 537,304 shares at an average price of $179.2 per share, and 13,266 shares at an average of $179.76 each.

Bob Iger, Chairman and ex-CEO of The Walt Disney Company, has sold $98.7 million worth of shares in the company in an effort to diversify his portfolio. According to Bloomberg, Iger disposed of 550,570 shares at an average price of $179.21 on June 1, cutting the shares he owns by 50% to 555,865. In a statement, Disney said, “The value of these shares reflects the significant shareholder value generated under his leadership.”

Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) shares are flat despite news that Chairman and former CEO, Bob Iger, sold nearly $100 million in stock. An SEC filing showed Iger sold 550,570 shares at around $179 per share. The sales...

Earlier today, news broke that Amazon has acquired MGM in a landmark merger. In a piece from The New York Times, it's been revealed that another huge deal very nearly took place back in 2016 which would have seen Disney potentially acquire WarnerMedia. That means the likes of Warner Bros.,...

Bob Iger, executive chairman and former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, delivered the commencement address at The University of Texas at Austin on Saturday. In his speech, Iger urged graduates to dream big and brush off naysayers early. "[T]here just is no such thing as having dreams that are...

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger gave the commencement address at University of Texas at Austin where he told graduates that acting boldly is the only way to accomplish meaningful things in life:. The only way to accomplish meaningful things in life is by acting boldly. Being timid has never gotten...

“At this point, let’s call ABC what it really is, Disney-,” quipped Jimmy Kimmel in a scathing roast of all thing small screen at Disney’s Virtual Upfront. “Isn’t there something to be said for dying with dignity,” the Live! host added. “Somehow when everyone’s stuck in their houses with nothing to do but watch TV for the past 14 month and we still managed to lose ratings,” Kimmel added in a wide slam of the record low Oscars and virtually everything else on the Big 4 over the coronavirus pandemic.

It’s no longer the happiest place on Earth. Disney’s major leadership shift is rankling employees, as former chief executive Bob Iger prepares to step away from his role as executive chairman at the end of the year, according to a report. Newly-minted CEO Bob Chapek is asserting more authority as...

The Happiest Place on Earth is back in business. The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek and his predecessor, Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger, are among the company's top executives who greeted guests visiting the Disneyland Resort for the first time since the California theme park closed temporarily in March 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure park reopened on Friday to high demand, operating at 25% capacity with new health and safety protocols in place, ending a 412-day closure — by far the longest in the history of the iconic Anaheim theme park Walt Disney opened in July 1955.

It seems hard to overstate. Disneyland and California Adventure reopened Friday after 13 months, a tangible sign of a return to normalcy and an upbeat revival at an iconic site – albeit at 25% capacity, for California residents only, and with social distancing and mask wearing. A line formed outside...

Walt Disney executive chairman Bob Iger said when his tenure’s up he’d love another shot as a weatherman – a first gig in his early 20s that he dearly hoped would lead to an anchor job but never panned out. “I discovered that I was not as good as I...

"It all worked out and it worked out great," The Walt Disney Co. executive chairman said of his studio's shift to app-based, direct-to-consumer distribution while receiving a tribute at the Clio Awards. Bob Iger has defended The Walt Disney Co.'s pivot before and during the pandemic from its legacy theatrical...

A new Ari Emanuel profile in The New Yorker details how the super-agent wants to be viewed as a visionary — not another Hollywood suit — while his company plots another IPO attempt. “In ten years, is anybody gonna remember Bob Iger?” Emanuel asks New Yorker writer Connie Bruck. “Probably...