WotC Filing: Wizards of the Coast makes up roughly 70% of Hasbro's value

[Parmandur]

If only we hadn't sold out of our valuable cards sometime in the 00s when it was looking weak, instead of after it took off again...

And thank goodness for Commander.

You know ow what, I never even bought any cards until Eldraine. I would humor friends by helping them test run a deck or two, but never got into it.

 

[Alzrius]

True that. I've only dabbled in Magic, and recently, but I'm old enough to remember it being dismissed as the flavor of the month.

I was one of the people who thought that Magic would be blown out of the water by TSR's Spellfire card game.

 

[R_J_K75]

Hasbro should go back to making pencils, look my lead broke, now it's a Transformer.

 

[Irlo]

That entirely the point, WotC would be even more profitable without Hasbro drawing away its resources to invest them in bad choices.

Drawing away resources. Who cares if WotC's resources get drained away through dividends to shareholders or get drained away into other segments of Hasbro? Does it affect the games we play?

 

[Cadence]

Drawing away resources. Who cares if WotC's resources get drained away through dividends to shareholders or get drained away into other segments of Hasbro? Does it affect the games we play?

Dividends don't help the company survive a downturn or lean year. Could extra product lines (either as revenue streams or something to sell off when needed)?

 

[Maxperson]

Hasbro is not an anchor around WotC's neck. Hasbro might be an anchor around the neck of those investors, keeping them from extracting as much unearned wealth as they can from WotC, but it'ss not an anchor around WotC's neck.

It's the same thing. Hasbro is keeping WotC from earning as much as it can, which is an anchor(or weight of some kind) around its neck. That weight is keeping the investors from earning as much as they can get, since increased WotC value = more money for them.

 

[Mecheon]

That entirely the point, WotC would be even more profitable without Hasbro drawing away its resources to invest them in bad choices.

Weren't these the people who said 'One of the biggest franchises in the world' Power Ranges was a bad choice and deliberately brought it up as such?

Power Rangers, a bad investment, in the middle of this crazed nostalgia market?

I wouldn't put much thought behind anything they do. They'd squeeze as much money they could out of WotC, burn every franchise to the ground, and probably manage to kill both D&D and MtG at the same time

 

[Irlo]

It's the same thing. Hasbro is keeping WotC from earning as much as it can, which is an anchor(or weight of some kind) around its neck. That weight is keeping the investors from earning as much as they can get, since increased WotC value = more money for them.

Not quite the same thing. WotC earns what it earns. It's what happens to those earnings that's in question here. If the earnings get siphoned off into Alta Fox's coffers or get siphoned off into Hasbro properties, it doesn't mean that WotC is earning less. Hasbro is not keeping WotC from earning as much as it can. They're making decisions about what to do with those earnings.

 

[Parmandur]

It's the same thing. Hasbro is keeping WotC from earning as much as it can, which is an anchor(or weight of some kind) around its neck. That weight is keeping the investors from earning as much as they can get, since increased WotC value = more money for them.

Yeah, no, I don't trust these guys analysis.

 

[Parmandur]

Weren't these the people who said 'One of the biggest franchises in the world' Power Ranges was a bad choice and deliberately brought it up as such?

Power Rangers, a bad investment, in the middle of this crazed nostalgia market?

I wouldn't put much thought behind anything they do. They'd squeeze as much money they could out of WotC, burn every franchise to the ground, and probably manage to kill both D&D and MtG at the same time

Yeah, they're out to Lunch.

The brand synergy plan Hasbro has in place is q good strategy. I am glad thisnis going nowhere.