[재테크와 영어공부] Burbank's Letter to Disney's Chief Executive Officer
헤지펀드 Burbank가 디즈니 대표에게 보낸 편지
Mr. Robert A. Chapek
Chief Executive Officer T
he Walt Disney Company
Burbank, CA
Dear Mr. Chapek:
As major shareholders of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), we write to express our appreciation for your increased focus on the company's direct-to-consumer ("DTC") business. We strongly support your decision to direct marquee content like Hamilton and Mulan into the DTC channel, and look forward to hearing more about your "accelerated push" into this model at Disney's upcoming Investor Day. Ahead of this event, we thought you would be interested in our views about the DTC business that we believe could meaningfully accelerate growth for the company and value creation for shareholders.1
존경하는 차펙에게
월트 디즈니의 주주로서, 우리는 소비자 지향 사업 DTC에 집중를 높혀줘서 감사함을 표현하려 한다.
우리는 너가 해밀턴과 뮬란같은 대형컨텐츠를 DTC채널에 곧바로 전송한것을 우리는 강력하게 지지한다. 그리고
다가오는 주주총회에서 이러한 DTC 모델에 가열찬 프로젝트 진행에 대한 언급을 듣기를 기대한다.
그 이벤트에 앞서 급격하게 성장하고 주주들을 위해 가치 창출을 하고 있는 DTC비즈니스에 대한 우리의 생각을 당신은 흥미로워 할 것이다.
DTC란?
“Direct To Consumer”의 약어입니다. #D2C 로 불리기도 하는데요. 기업에서 소비자에게 직접 상품을 판매하는 비즈니스 모델을 일컫습니다. 일반적으로 기업에서 상품을 판매하는 방법은 크게 두 가지였습니다. 백화점, 리테일 숍(Retail shop) 등의 오프라인 매장에서 소비자가 직접 상품을 보고 고르고 구매할 수 있도록 하는 방법과 아마존, 월마트닷컴 등 이커머스 플랫폼에 상품을 올려 온라인으로 결제한 소비자에게 상품을 배송해주는 방법이었죠. 그러나 코로나 팬데믹 후 오프라인 매장이 정상적으로 영업할 수 없게 되면서 매출에도 타격을 받기 시작했습니다. 기업들은 매출에 끼치는 영향을 최소화하고자 온라인 판매에 집중했지만, 온라인 플랫폼에 지불해야 하는 수수료1때문에 온전한 매출로 잡을 수 없는 상황이 됐습니다.
Since its founding, Disney has been defined by its creativity, bold vision, and prescient grasp of the future of entertainment. We share the view that Disney is embarking on one of the most important transitions in its history: shifting
distribution of the world's most iconic entertainment brands from the box office to the home. Disney+ has made admirable early progress. Before launching Disney+, management demonstrated laudable vision by rolling out a multi-billion-dollar investment plan that exchanged near-term earnings for long-term value creation, and the market rewarded the company for doing so. Just twelve months later, Disney has built one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, already within the original 5-year Disney+ subscriber target range of 60-90 million.
defined by : 정의되어지다
grasp : 예측하다
embarking on : 착수하다
distribution: 분포
admirable: 감탄스러운
rolling out: 펼치다
exchage A for B: A를 B로 바꾸다
within :이내에
To further capitalize on this transformational opportunity, we believe the company should permanently suspend its $3 billion annual dividend and redirect this capital entirely into content production and acquisition for Disney's DTC businesses, centered around Disney+. By reallocating a dividend of a few dollars per share, Disney could more than double its Disney+ original content budget. These incremental dollars would, based on our analysis, generate returns that are multiples of the stock's current dividend yield by driving high life-time-value ("LTV") subscribers to your DTC platform. Even at the current ~5% monthly churn level and $6.99 monthly price point, the gross LTV of a Disney+ customer is well north of $100. Consider Hamilton, which analysts speculate drove an incremental 2 million subscribers onto Disney+, and thereby created hundreds of millions of dollars in value for Disney shareholders. These are substantial returns when compared to the mere $75 million it cost Disney to acquire rights to the film. We are fully confident that scaling that $75 million to several incremental billions and focusing that spend on Disney's iconic in-house brands like Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and Disney Animation as well as selected acquisitions would drive even greater subscriber growth for Disney+, and subsequent value creation for Disney's shareholders.
monthly churn level : 월별 가입자 이탈률
substantial: 상당한
Beyond bringing additional subscribers onto the platform, increased velocity of dedicated content production will deliver several knock-on benefits spread across your existing base including elevated engagement, lower churn, and increased pricing power. To put this in perspective, improving Disney+ churn to Netflix's industry-leading ~2% domestic churn levels would more than double gross subscriber LTV. When combined with driving pricing to Netflix's current $13 domestic average monthly price, gross LTV would quadruple to nearly $500 per subscriber. Together, the ability to drive subscriber growth, reduce churn, and increase pricing present the opportunity to create tens of billions of dollars in incremental value for Disney shareholders in short order, and hundreds of billions once the platform reaches larger scale. We appreciate that this math is illustrative and fails to consider several costs of running the Disney+ service (into which you have better insight than we do). However, there is no arguing against the $1,200 per subscriber valuation the market currently ascribes to Netflix. It is even harder to argue against the step change in returns Disney could generate by accelerating content spend (measured in multiples) compared to paying that same capital to shareholders in the form of a dividend (measured in a low single-digit percentage).
quadruple : 배가되게 만들다
ascribes: 돌리다
Of equal importance, meaningfully accelerating DTC content spend will further broaden the divide between Disney and its traditional media peers - AT&T's WarnerMedia, Discovery, ViacomCBS, Comcast's NBCUniversal and Fox – none of which have the financial capabilities to execute such a bold plan. A more aggressive content roadmap will distinguish Disney as the only traditional US media company able to thrive in a world beyond the box office and the cable TV ecosystem, alongside digital-first businesses like Netflix and Amazon.
We also believe that collapsing all of Disney's DTC services into the Disney+ application will simplify the product and be a meaningful enhancement to Disney's offerings. Given that Disney+'s subscriber base is already meaningfully larger than any of your other DTC services, we believe Disney would benefit from a single customer acquisition vehicle led by Disney+. We understand that each of your DTC services – Hulu, ESPN+, and the upcoming Star offering – serve different demographics and may have various value propositions, but these challenges can be easily circumvented through tiered and bundled product offerings at various price points. Importantly, all product offerings should lead with the company's marquee Disney product and brand.
acquisition:습득
circumvented: 피하다
We understand that a more aggressive investment strategy may pressure short-term earnings on the path to creating long-term value. Lest there be reservation about making such a trade-off and any potential shareholder concerns, we highlight an observation from Warren Buffet: "companies get the shareholders they deserve." Disney deserves growth-minded, long-term oriented investors, and we believe that a strategy centered around using Disney's many resources to drive growth in the DTC business will further attract them. With Disney's superior tentpole franchises and production capabilities, we believe that the company can exceed the subscriber base of the industry leader, Netflix, in just a few years. But time is of the essence and the company should consider significant additional investments in content both through production and acquisitions here and abroad.
tentpole: 상업영화
As experienced public market investors, we have observed numerous precedents of successful non-linear business model transitions that paid off handsomely for shareholders. Among such business transformations, Adobe and Microsoft stand out as particularly relevant examples of companies which, in order to optimize their distribution models, had to forgo lucrative upfront license revenues in exchange for monthly subscriptions. Investors have learned that while these strategic shifts may depress near-term earnings, their patience will be rewarded with businesses many multiples the size of what they once were. Furthermore, the stocks were rewarded with significantly higher multiples reflecting the superior quality of their new recurring, subscription revenue streams (a significant improvement over their historic lumpy transactional model). Both companies' shares have appreciated significantly since these transitions began.
lucrative:수익성 좋은
Finally, we believe Disney should maintain its focus on transitioning to a subscription-led DTC revenue stream and avoid the temptation of maximizing short-term profits through transactional VOD pricing strategies. While it may be tempting to extract short term financial profit from each marquee film and TV series that Disney produces, we are confident that the 'all-you-can-eat' approach is the best way to maximize the longer value of Disney's content and enterprise by accelerating subscriber growth. We look to the music industry as an appropriate analogue, where Spotify and other music streaming peers have built a digital subscription industry that is multiples of the iTunes 'a-la-carte' model. If Spotify can accomplish this feat as a pure distribution platform in an industry where piracy is rampant, we have no doubt that your subscription DTC business, once it becomes the primary landing ground for all Disney's content, will surpass any pay-per-film revenue stream. As shown in the software industry, we also expect this subscription revenue stream will be capitalized at much higher multiples than a transactional one. While some pundits have described the Mulan release as a "debacle" due to the $29.99 cost for a VOD download, we see this as a valuable learning experience, expect stumbles on the way to greatness, and believe this will drive a faster decision to make all content available to subscribers for a simple subscription fee.
rampant: 만연하는
debacle: 대실패
stumbles"발을 헛디디다
The current 60 million Disney+, 36 million Hulu, and 9 million ESPN+ subscriber bases represent a commendable start, but nowhere near their full potential. There are currently 1.1 billion global broadband-enabled homes around the world and 4 billion mobile subscribers, across which at least 1 billion Disney fans are spread. With broadband and mobile connectivity expanding, this end market, and thus Disney's total DTC addressable market, is growing rapidly. These fans want an easier and more affordable way to access Disney's marquee content. We are confident that Disney can build a DTC business that will meaningfully exceed its current cable TV and box office revenue streams, but only if the company leans into this opportunity and invests more aggressively.
commendable 칭찬받을만한
Just this week, Regal Cinemas shuttered all its US operations and physical theaters. While we all share a certain sadness and nostalgia for this eventuality, I am sure that people felt similar emotions about horse-drawn carriages when the automobile was first introduced. Every Hollywood executive has been able to enjoy first run films in the comfort of their home theaters for years. We urge you to democratize this experience and to continue to embrace the future of home entertainment with the utmost urgency in executing the company's digital transformation.
democratize 민주화하다
digital transformation.: 디지털화
We look forward to continuing a constructive dialogue.
Sincerely,
Daniel S. Loeb
Founder/CEO
Third Point LLC
1. By providing you with our analysis, we do not intend to participate, or intrude, in the basic business decisions of the company. We do, however, believe it is an important aspect of our free enterprise system for management and boards of directors to listen to investors' perceptions of a company's long-term prospects and opportunities to enhance shareholder value.
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