The latest data from TickerTags indicates that the massive success of Walt Disney Co DIS’s “The Jungle Book” should come as no surprise to investors. “The Jungle Book” registered unprecedented social media buzz prior to its release. The movie logged a $100 million opening domestic weekend box office, well above industry projections in the $70–80 million range.

TickerTags monitors social media sites to identify trends by searching for words and phrases that appear together in social media content, such as tweets.

Heading into opening weekend, social media chatter about “The Jungle Book” exceeded the buzz prior to the openings of “Zootopia” and “Big Hero 6″ by 90 and 70 percent, respectively. Traders that read the social media writing on the wall saw the big box office beat coming from a mile away and capitalized on Disney stock’s 5.2 percent gain this week.

Incredibly, post-release social media chatter about “The Jungle Book” is…

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