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Media Stocks Winners & Losers In 2025: WBD Rides M&A Wave, EchoStar Jumps On SpaceX Speculation

On Wall Street, speculation is often the sincerest form of flattery. That’s what the media and entertainment sector experienced in 2025, with Warner Bros Discovery shares surging 170% due to investor theorizing about the upside of the company’s acquisition by either Netflix or Paramount. EchoStar, meanwhile, started the year by merging with sister company Dish Network and ended it with its stock on a tear, up 370% for the year, due to a deal upping its stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

2025 media stock prices

2025 media stock prices

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Key Highlights

  • (Speculation has been widespread that SpaceX could go public in 2026 in what could be the biggest IPO in history.) Related Stories News Media Spin Cycle: The M&A Outlook In 2026 News The WTF Moments That Shook The Global Film & TV Biz In 2025 Those are only the biggest winners, of course.
  • On the other side of the coin, Comcast shares slumped 20% amid concerns about its stagnating broadband business.
  • Angel Studios, the Sound of Freedom distributor that went public last September, saw its shares plunge 53% from that point, with other big declines registered by Trump Media & Technology Group, movie theater giant AMC Entertainment, digital publisher BuzzFeed and right-wing social media firm Rumble.
  • Watch on Deadline Not quite making the chart but leaving an impression on the marketplace were Charter Communications (-39%) and Terrifier 3 distributor Cineverse, which slipped 44%.
  • Spotify, Roku and Reddit registered gains of between 25% and 45%.
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