Hollywood is pretty much booming. Today, I want to reveal the best way to profit. Walt Disney Co NYSE: DIS should be a familiar name. Disney is the second-largest media company in the world by revenue, behind only Comcast Corporation NASDAQ: I expect it to achieve record revenue in Even better, shares are trading at one of the biggest discount to sales in the last five years.

Disney owns one of the most valuable portfolios of companies in the entire global media industry. Its valuable properties include Walt Disney Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, ESPN, ABC, the Disney Channel, Lucasfilms, and the Star Wars franchise.

Beyond its media properties, Disney operates Disney Theme Parks, a collection of 14 theme parks with locations around the world. The company also owns the merchandising rights for its collection of brands under its consumer brands division, another huge source of revenue.

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Those losses were driven by worries over one Disney holding: ESPN had long been a source of big profit growth for Disney. Today, I am going to explain why those concerns are misguided — and how it has created one of the best times to invest in Disney in the last five years.

For one, Disney is killing it at the box office. The next Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi , is set to hit theatres in December of Disney also has a mega-hit on its hands with Beauty and the Beast.

This movie is delivering huge numbers. They also trigger billions more in revenue from merchandising. As you can see, despite weakness at ESPN, Disney is hardly limping right now. After a slight drop in the second half of , I expect Disney to deliver record revenue in Take a look below.

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