New park and cruise capacity is filling up while guests spend more per visit, and that pairing is the clearest upside case for Walt Disney stock.

The consolidated earnings-growth metric, that management once led with, no longer opens its remarks, and the businesses the replacement metrics measure move at very different speeds.

National CineMedia (NCMI) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -11.11% and -3.31%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Many investors pay attention to mid-cap stocks because they have established business models and expansive market opportunities. However, their paths to becoming $100 billion corporations are ripe with competition, ranging from giants with vast resources to agile upstarts eager to disrupt the status quo.

Shares of multinational media and entertainment corporation Paramount (NASDAQ:PARA) fell 4.1% in the afternoon session after continued weakness as reports surfaced that the newly merged company with Skydance is preparing for a significant wave of layoffs.

Great things are happening to the stocks in this article. They’re all outperforming the market over the last month because of positive catalysts such as a new product line, constructive news flow, or even a loyal Reddit fanbase.

As the Q2 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the broadcasting industry, including Paramount (NASDAQ:PARA) and its peers.