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Walt Disney Company (DIS)
Walt Disney founded his namesake company in 1923, and since then the business has gone on to become one of the most iconic brands on earth. Today, Walt Disney (DIS) is a leading entertainment company with over $55 billion in revenue. The company is highly diversified and vertically integrated, with four major business segments: Media Networks (41% of sales, 30% of profits): TV programming (ABC TV and cable channels like A&E, History, Lifetime and ABC Family, ESPN network), radio (radio Disney, ESPN radio network), eight television stations. In total the company has about 100 Disney-branded television channels, which are broadcast in 34 languages and 162 countries. Parks & Resorts (34% of sales, 34% of profits): owns theme parks and resorts [...]
Starbucks (SBUX)
The first Starbucks (SBUX) location opened in 1971, and the company has since grown to become the world’s largest coffee purveyor with just over 28,000 stores in more than 75 countries. Starbucks stores sell not just premium coffee but also tea, packaged coffee, juices, bottled water, pastries, and various lunch items. In addition, the company licenses several of its products, which are available in supermarkets and stores, and sells through other up-and-coming brands such as Teavana, Tazo, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange, and Ethos. In its most recent fiscal year, the vast majority of Starbucks' sales came from the company’s namesake, company-owned stores. Company-owned stores: 79% of revenue (growing 5% a year) Licensed stores: 11% of [...]
W.P. Carey (WPC)
W.P. Carey was founded in 1973 by Bill Carey, who helped to pioneer the triple net lease and sale-leaseback REIT business model. W.P. Carey went public in 1998 as a master limited partnership but converted to a REIT in 2012. Today the REIT owns 890 properties located in 19 countries around the world. W.P. Carey's portfolio is broadly diversified across tenants (over 200, none greater than 6% of rent), industries (29), property types (industrial, office, retail, storage), and geographies (35% of sales are outside of the U.S., primarily in Western and Northern Europe). Source: W.P. Carey Investor Presentation The REIT also manages more than $13 billion in non-traded REITs under its asset management business. Management fees represent 19% of [...]
Southern Company (SO)
In business for more than 100 years, Southern Company (SO) is a major regulated utility involved in selling electricity and distributing natural gas, primarily across the Southeastern U.S. The firm's vertically integrated electric utilities serve customers across Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. Southern Company’s mix of business and service territories significantly changed after the company's 2016 acquisition of natural gas utility AGL Resources for $12 billion. AGL Resources owns more than 80,000 miles of pipelines and over a dozen storage facilities it uses to transport and distribute natural gas to businesses and households across Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, Florida, Tennessee, and Maryland. After acquiring AGL Resources, Southern Company's customer count roughly doubled to 9 million, and its [...]