Netflix Stock Is Pricey Even After Warner Bros.-Induced Selloff

“Netflix is not a screaming ‘buy’ at the current price levels,” said Christopher Brown, a financial adviser in private wealth management at Synovus Securities, who added that he owns Netflix shares personally and Synovus does in its portfolios. The shares, which fell about 2% on Friday to the lowest intraday since April 9, are currently trading for around 28 times expected earnings over the next 12 months, which is a higher valuation than video streaming rivals like Walt Disney Co., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc., which owns YouTube, as well as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes. Paramount Skydance Corp., which also is bidding for Warner Bros. and operates Paramount+, trades for less than 13 times forward earnings.