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Money In The Bank: The Most Successful WWE Superstars Of All Time
Saturday, June 17, 2017 - 2:13pm | 624World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: WWE) holds a "Money in the Bank" event each year. Benzinga compiled a list of the 10 wrestlers with the highest net worth estimates, according to the website Celebrity Net Worth. No matter which performers come out on top, these 10 superstars have...
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Vince McMahon's 5 Biggest Business Flops
Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 7:03am | 491World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) fans and investors are gearing up this week for the company’s biggest event of the year: WrestleMania. On Sunday, wrestling fans will be treated to a spectacular show headlined by a main event championship match between Bill Goldberg and Brock...
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WWE Might Be Interested In Buying Indy Competitor Ring Of Honor To Beef Up Network Programming
Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 2:36pm | 598Pro Wrestling Sheet has reported World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) is in talks with Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc (NASDAQ: SBGI) to potentially acquire Sinclair’s Ring of Honor (ROH) professional wrestling promotion. Pro Wresting Sheet cites “multiple sources with direct...
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The Most Valuable Toy Brands
Saturday, March 4, 2017 - 11:46am | 375In the company’s most recent quarterly earnings call, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) CEO Vince McMahon informed shareholders that the company’s toy business is booming. “In consumer products, we maintained a dominant position with the second highest selling action...
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Dana White Enters Vince McMahon's Territory: Does He Have A Chance In Hell?
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 1:24pm | 456UFC 205 in New York broke a number of attendance and sales records for both UFC and Madison Square Garden Co (NYSE: MSG). UFC 205 was the UFC’s first major event in New York after a ban on MMA was lifted in the state this year. While UFC in NYC may be a relatively new phenomenon, New York has...
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WWE Just Announced A Major China Expansion
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 9:50am | 430World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) has made a big overseas push over the past year. The company may have made its biggest splash yet. "Today's historic announcements further demonstrate WWE's long-term commitment to China," said WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon...
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WWE Says 'A SmackDown Shakeup Is About To Completely Reshape' The Company, But What Is It?
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 10:14am | 215World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) said in a press release on Thursday that a "SmackDown shakeup is about to completely reshape all of WWE." WWE announced that beginning July 19, its weekly "SmackDown" show will move from Thursday to Tuesday nights and air live each week — for...
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Wrestlemania Boosted WWE Network Subscriptions By 20%
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 2:59pm | 427Shares of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) were trading higher by nearly 5 percent on Tuesday after the company reported first quarter results. WWE said it earned $0.18 per share in the first quarter on revenue of $171 million. Wall Street analysts were expecting the company to...
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Here's Why It Might Be Time For WWE To Consider A Sale
Monday, May 2, 2016 - 4:46pm | 586World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) has been a family-controlled business for nearly a century. However, there have been some rumblings recently about whether the sports-entertainment company should put itself up for sale. Following last week's Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA)-...
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Will Investors Cheer WWE Network Subscribers? Here's How It's Traded Historically Following WrestleMania
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 1:59pm | 381WrestleMania has come and gone. For wrestling fans, it's the time of year when new storylines finally end or just begin. For investors, it's an important time to zero in on World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) stock. Shares opened sharply higher on Monday, recently trading up...
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Could A Dutch Media Tycoon Buy WWE?
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 11:56am | 247World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE)'s name has been thrown around as an acquisition target since at least 2014. The company may have a standing bidder on its hands, at least according to a report by the New York Post. The New York Post reported that John de Mol, a Dutch media...
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Watching Wrestlemania? Here Are The 10 Highest-Paid WWE Performers
Sunday, April 3, 2016 - 1:01pm | 294With World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE)’S Wrestlemania 32 in Dallas, Texas, right around the corner this weekend, Forbes has released a new list of the company’s top-earning talent. All the performers get a cut of the Wrestlemania revenue and get a percentage of...
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Selling Nostalgia: WWE's Falling Stock, Ratings Drop Spark Shane McMahon's Return
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 10:04am | 642The blurred line between reality and fiction was cleared long ago by World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE). The real world of WWE, however, has occasionally made for pretty interesting storylines. The latest example? Shane McMahon returning to the company after a six-year absence....
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WWE Investors: Tread Carefully, Stock Can Be 'Brutally Volatile' During Wrestlemania
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 4:17pm | 516The road to Wrestlemania has begun. For Wall Street, that means it's the time of year when World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) is in the spotlight. Wrestlemania season typically kicks off with WWE's annual Royal Rumble event, which took place on Sunday night. That appears to...
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Why Focusing On WWE's Recent Ratings Struggles Is 'Rather Short Sighted'
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 1:01pm | 662World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) has had some historically bad ratings in recent months. So much so, that Chairman and and CEO Vince McMahon made a grand return on the December 14 edition of "Monday Night Raw." It was his first television appearance in over a year --...