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2025-10-05
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Steve Jobs 7% Disney Stake Explained: From $10M Pixar Buy to $7.4B All-Stock Deal (DIS) — Key Trading Takeaways

According to @StockMKTNewz, Steve Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder after Disney acquired Pixar in a $7.4 billion all-stock transaction in 2006; this is confirmed by The Walt Disney Company press release dated 2006-01-24 and Disney's Form 8-K filed 2006-01-24, source: The Walt Disney Company press release 2006-01-24; The Walt Disney Company Form 8-K 2006-01-24. Jobs originally acquired Pixar from Lucasfilm in 1986 for about $10 million, consisting of a $5 million purchase and a $5 million capital infusion, source: Pixar, Inc. Form S-1 filed 1995-06-15. The 2006 deal exchanged 2.3 Disney shares for each Pixar share and added Jobs to Disney's board, making his stake approximately 7% of outstanding shares, source: The Walt Disney Company press release 2006-01-24; The Walt Disney Company Form 8-K 2006-01-24. For DIS traders, this is a notable precedent of equity-only M&A affecting float and governance; the press release specifies an all-stock, no-cash structure and contains no reference to digital assets, indicating no direct crypto market linkage, source: The Walt Disney Company press release 2006-01-24.

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