Will Disney’s Earnings Help Restore Wall Street’s Trust?

The US entertainment giant reports after the closing bell Wednesday as streaming, theme parks and the stock price come into focus. The Walt Disney Co. reports its fiscal second-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday, closing out what has been an unusually turbulent earnings season for the entertainment industry.

Disney will be the last major Hollywood company to report results for the first three months of the year. Investors hope the world’s largest entertainment conglomerate will calm frayed nerves after Netflix kicked off the industry-wide anxiety on April 19 by reporting a 200,000 drop in subscribers, its first loss in more than a decade and warned of steeper declines ahead as layoffs began.