DIS pre-earnings setup: The Walt Disney Company reports earnings on November 17, 2026, nine days out from this morning's scan, and the options market has priced that print at 3.7% over five days, the narrowest event of any name printing that day. The stock closed at $116.75 on November 6, down 0.40% on the session, and carries a composite score of 75 at rank 20 of the 50 rows we scan.

November 6 was a split session for the software complex, and Disney was not on the losing side of it. CRM fell 3.94%, INTU fell 3.76%, GLOB fell 3.72%, WDAY fell 3.63% and ASAN fell 5.01%. Disney fell 0.40%.

The rest of the record is about position and price. Only 1.2% of float is short in Disney, implied volatility of 46.0 is the lowest of the November 17 names, and the stock has already run 11.46% over the past month into the print.

What the scanner row says about Disney

Score 75 at rank 20 of the 50 rows we scan, sector Communication Services, print date November 17, earnings sentiment Positive, short interest 1.2% of float, market capitalization $201.59 billion, implied volatility 46.0, and a scan price of $116.75.

Decomposed, the 75 is 25 points for analyst coverage, 21.2 for an 84.8% buy-side share, 10 for five strong buys, 3.7 for a 3.7% five-day implied move, and the full 15 for a Positive sentiment reading. That totals 74.9.

Read the other way, most of that score is not about the event. Coverage and sentiment put in 40 points between them and the analyst book adds another 31.2. The implied-move column is worth 3.7, the smallest of the five columns and the one the options market controls.

When does DIS report earnings, and is it a buy before the print?

Disney reports on November 17, 2026, nine days from the November 8 morning scan, and the row carries a 2.6% implied move over three days and 3.7% over five.

The bands around the $116.75 scan price run from $113.68 to $119.82 over three days and from $112.41 to $121.09 over seven days. The analyst target is $118.76, 1.7% above the scan price, and the downside mark on the row is $114.74.

We do not recommend a buy or a sell. We publish the scan, the score and the priced move, and the reader decides what a 3.7% event is worth on a $201.59 billion company nine days out.

Where the price has been sitting this month

Disney has run into this print rather than away from it. It closed at $104.75 on October 7, the low close of the past month, and at $118.95 on November 4, the high close, which is 13.56% higher.

It has given a little of that back since. The close was $117.22 on November 5 and $116.75 on November 6, so the stock is 1.85% below its November 4 high close, up 5.24% over the week from the October 30 close of $110.94 and up 11.46% over the month.

Nothing in that path needs a reason attached to it. Disney reported on none of those sessions, and the only headline our scan carried for the name was a communications appointment rather than anything about earnings.

How does DIS compare with the other November 17 names?

Five names in our table print on November 17: NVDA at 97, JD at 83, DIS at 75, ZTO at 70 and TME at 65. Disney is third on the score and last on the size of the expected move.

The implied move says it plainly. Over five days NVDA is priced at 13.6%, ZTO at 11.2%, TME at 11.0% and JD at 6.8%. Disney is 3.7%, and over three days it is 2.6% against 9.6% at NVDA and 7.9% at ZTO.

Implied volatility agrees. Disney carries 46.0 against 77.3 at NVDA, 71.8 at ZTO, 70.5 at TME and 53.0 at JD. Short interest is 1.2% of float, the lowest of the five, against 1.3% at NVDA, 1.5% at JD, 2.3% at ZTO and 5.4% at TME.

On price it runs the other way. Disney trades at 24.1 times trailing earnings and 15.6 times forward, and its PEG of 3.8 is the highest of the five by a distance: NVDA is 0.23, JD 0.59, ZTO 1.05 and TME 0.98.

The analyst target leaves the least room of the five as well. $118.76 is 1.7% above the scan price, against 6.3% at NVDA, 5.2% at ZTO, 5.1% at TME and 3.1% at JD.

What would have to change before the print?

The book first, because it is where the points are. Thirty-three analysts cover Disney and 28 of them rate it a buy or a strong buy, which is 84.8%.

Five of those ratings are strong buys, 23 are buys, four are holds and one is a sell. That share of the book is worth 21.2 of the 25 points the conviction column can award, and the coverage column is already at its maximum.

Second the implied move, because it is the one column that moves on its own. At 3.7 points it is worth a twentieth of the score, and it can only widen from here if the options market changes its mind about the print.

Third the price. The downside mark is $114.74 and the post-earnings target is $119.82, both within 2.6% of the $116.75 scan price. A stock that has already gained 11.46% in a month into a print priced below 4% does not need much to reach its own marks.

And one thing that is not a lever. The sentiment reading is already worth the full 15 points, and the earnings history behind it does not change before the print.

Our scan runs at 6:30 Pacific time and every figure on this page comes from it, published in full at our open data.

So the DIS pre-earnings setup is a quiet one on a stock that has already run. The scan puts Disney third of the five names printing November 17, with the smallest priced event on that date, the least short interest and the tightest analyst target of the group, and with the stock 11.46% higher over the month than it was on October 7.

What a reader can check on that row is the book and the bands. The reader decides what a print priced at 3.7% is worth on a name where the price has already done most of the moving.

Questions on Disney before the November 17 print

When does Disney report earnings?

Disney reports on November 17, 2026, nine days from the November 8 morning scan, which carried the row with the print date set to November 17 and 9 days left on it.

Is DIS a buy before the November 17 earnings report?

We do not say that. We publish the score, the band and the implied move, and Disney's row carries a 75, a 3.7% five-day implied move and an analyst target 1.7% above the $116.75 scan price.

How much is the print expected to move DIS?

3.7% over five days and 2.6% over three, the narrowest event of the five names printing on November 17, on implied volatility of 46.0.