Perhaps focus more on Eastern Europe market? Like Lego does

 

I've been to Prague and Hungary and studied their markets many moons ago.

What exactly would make them particularly lucrative?

Last I paid attention, the Eastern European countries not on the Euro had weak purchasing power, which made them GREAT places to go as a foreigner to spend money and great tourism markets and relatively nice places to hire people from for things like art -- but not places with a lot of buying power to import goods.

 

I just want to add: This year, corporate profits rose 25%. That was, however, the biggest increase in 50 years. Most analysts think it's unsustainable.

It was driven in large parts by price hikes above the rate of inflation, technologically driven productivity increases, financial engineering, and wage suppression.

Interest rates are going up in an attempt to chill demand.

If interest rates continue to rise and Hasbro does achieve 50% profit increase over three years, I can't imagine that being good for consumers or employees or vendors or retail partners. It's essentially coming out of other people's pockets if it exceeds market growth rates by such a large amount.

 

Exactly right.

It was criminal to jack up prices so high because of "increased costs" while making record profit. It's all BS. Like all the insurers after 9/11: you have a major event that disproportionally affects some companies (i.e. those insuring NYC), and you get ALL the insurers raising rates because of "costs".  

Hasbro is taking advantage of the situation, raising prices as much as 10% per year for some products (i.e. TF deluxes since CW). Despite the previous price hikes, Covid comes along and suddenly Hasbro needs to further raise prices? Yeah, that only works if you believe the previous hikes were modest and breaking even - spoiler, they weren't! Hasbro was well insulated to absorb the additional shipping/material costs, but never at the expense of exec raises and golden parachutes.

Now they're claiming 50% increases in profitability in the next 3 yrs? Bad scenario, they achieve it by further exploiting their employees and customers. Worse scenario, they fall flat on their face and we see the stock price DIVE to $20-30.   As a stockholder, Im very concerned.

 

Either this is top secret level as a nuke button, or it's completely not worth mentioning (though forecasted). I'll go for the latter.

 

You know what would be funny? If Hasbro self-published the comic in-house through eOne?

 

Did they ever mention what they were going to do with other brands like mask & visionaries?

 

No. The only thing we know for certain is that IDW will lose the G.I. Joe license along with TF.

Confirmed: IDW to Lose Transformers & GI Joe License at End of 2022