The Walt Disney Company Shares Plummet Over 26% From 52-Week Peak. DIS peaked on April 3rd, 2025, at 120.19. Today, DIS closed at 88.84, marking a 26.09 percent drop from a year ago. While markets will fluctuate, anything over a 10% drop is first considered a correction. The previous closing price was around $97.68 – $97.88 on April 2, 2025. So, today’s close represents a significant decrease. Source: CNBC
We are not in the financial sector, nor do we play one on TV, but we can see the trends here at Walt Disney World. The trends do not paint a rosy picture either. While these deals listed below work out well for the Guests, our local Walt Disney World economy may be in for a bumpy year ahead.
Walt Disney World has just released huge savings for guests visiting the parks during the spring and Summer of 2025, with ticket prices for locals being the lowest we have seen in years. $60.00 for a 4-day Discovery Disney ticket, half off Floridians Pixie Dust Pass deposit. Disney World Annual Passholders and Florida residents also are getting massive resort room savings, up to 35% off select resorts and rooms. The Free Dining Plan has returned for multiple deals and stays. Guests visiting from out of state can also get a 3-day 3-park ticket for $89.00 a day.
Let’s make this clear: this is NOT a cause and effect from Universal Orlando opening the newest central Florida theme park, Epic Universe, on May 22, 2025. Universal is also offering steeply discounted Universal Annual passes, and some of the newest resort hotel rooms are going for as low as $117.00 a night. To put this in perspective, with all the special deals and offers, there is still ONE DAY sold out for the opening month of Epic, and that is the opening day! This was expected to be sold out for months now. What Epic Universe does do is help both parks’ economies by bringing in more people to the area. But, it would appear no one is planning on coming in 2025.
This may be a US economy issue with tariffs and higher inflation, and people being skeptical. Outlooks for international travel have dropped by double-digit percentage points for both Disney World and Universal. In 2023, over 1.2 million Canadians visited Orlando, many of them headed to Disney World. This could also be a cause and effect of the cost to visit Walt Disney World and people’s concerns over a loss of “Extras”, aka Magical Express and Free Fast Pass, but this is less likely due to how good the Parks did over the past 2 years now.
While we here at Fantasy Land News are excited about some of the upcoming projects, like Cars Themed Land coming to Magic Kingdom, along with a Disney Villains Land, nostalgia is taking over with people complaining about the loss of Tom Sawyer Island and Rivers of America. Muppets Courtyard will be replaced by Monstopolis Mosters Inc Land, which we are all okay with because we may lose Rock n’ Roller Coaster Areosmith, the Muppets move over to that side of the Park and the attraction gets rethemed to Muppets Mayhem. There is a lot at stake, and if the economy doesn’t turn around, we may never see some of these projects.
The last time we saw an economic impact like this was in 2020, during the pandemic. Walt Disney World ended up canceling (okay, not officially canceling, but delaying and putting the plans back into storage) many of the projects they had previously announced. Looking at you, Spaceship Earth, UK pavilion Mary Poppins, and Play! Pavilion.
Disney is not sitting back, nor are they showing their hand at the moment. This Summer alone, they have three new Live Entertainment offerings: The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure, Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After, and Disney Starlight Nighttime Parade. Both water parks will be open at the same time, which is a first since 2019. Walt Disney World is on a blitz this summer to make this all about families and having a Cool Kid Summer.
The Walt Disney Company Shares Plummet Over 26% From 52-Week Peak
