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NEWS CORP
NWS
$17.2B
Mkt Cap
$30.19
+1.48%
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a current P/E ratio of 14.9, compared to its historical median P/E of 41.5. The stock is currently considered Cheap based on its historical valuation range.
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a 5-year average return on invested capital (ROIC) of 6.5%. This is below average and may indicate limited pricing power.
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a market capitalization of $17.0B. It is classified as a large-cap stock.
Yes, NEWS CORP (NWS) pays a dividend with a trailing twelve-month yield of 1.22%. The company also returns capital through share buybacks, with a buyback yield of 2.90%.
Based on historical P/E analysis, NEWS CORP (NWS) appears cheap. The current P/E of 14.9 is 64% below its historical median of 41.5. The estimated fair value CAGR (P/E method) is 23.9%.
NEWS CORP (NWS) operates in the Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing industry, within the Communication Services sector.
NEWS CORP (NWS) reported annual revenue of $8.5 billion in its most recent fiscal year, based on SEC EDGAR filings.
News Corporation is a global, diversified media and information services company that creates and distributes authoritative content and products across five reportable segments: Dow Jones, Digital Real Estate Services, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other. The company operates through recognizable brands including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Dow Jones, The Australian, Herald Sun, The Sun, The Times, HarperCollins Publishers, realestate.com.au, Realtor.com, and talkSPORT, generating revenue from recurring subscriptions, circulation sales, advertising, real estate listing products, licensing fees, and consumer product sales. The Dow Jones segment provides news and business information to both individual consumers and enterprise customers through digital platforms (websites, mobile apps, newsletters, podcasts, video) and traditional media (print, radio), with consumer products including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Investor's Business Daily, while professional information products serve enterprise customers through Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Energy, Factiva, and Dow Jones Newswires. The company's diversified revenue model combines subscription-based services with advertising and licensing arrangements, including partnerships with technology companies and AI-focused platforms, and operates primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom with global distribution of content and products. The company's focus on premium content and product innovation has enabled it to capitalize on the shift to digital consumption and create opportunities for more effective monetization through new licensing and partnership arrangements.
【Digital monetization expansion】 Management is pursuing multiple strategies to exploit opportunities through leveraging global audience scale, valuable data, and sharing technologies and practices across geographies and businesses. The company is capitalizing on a variety of digital distribution platforms, technologies and business models, including licensing content for distribution on third-party platforms and for use by generative artificial intelligence platforms. The company continues to focus on quality and product innovation to deliver products and services in a more engaging, timely and personalized manner.
No forward guidance provided.
Generated solely from the company's own reports listed below — not from third-party data. Hallucination risk is low. · Sources: 10-K
| Metric | TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 8.8B | 8.5B | 8.3B | 8.0B | 10.4B | 9.4B |
| Net Income | 1.1B | 1.2B | 266M | 149M | 623M | 330M |
| EPS | $2.00 | $2.07 | $0.46 | $0.26 | $1.05 | $0.56 |
| Free Cash Flow | 567M | 571M | 741M | 745M | 855M | 847M |
| ROIC | 0.0% | 13.0% | 4.2% | 2.3% | 8.1% | 4.9% |
| Gross Margin | - | - | 51.2% | 47.5% | 49.0% | 46.8% |
| Debt/Equity | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.26 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.28 |
| Dividends/Share | $0.37 | $0.32 | $0.30 | $0.30 | $0.29 | $0.28 |
| Operating Income | 0 | 1.5B | 569M | 362M | 771M | 446M |
| Operating Margin | 0.0% | 18.3% | 6.9% | 4.5% | 7.4% | 4.8% |
| ROE | 13.2% | 14.0% | 3.3% | 1.8% | 7.6% | 4.2% |
| Shares Outstanding | 562M | 570M | 578M | 573M | 593M | 589M |
| Metric | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income Statement | |||||||||||||
| Revenue | 8.5B | 8.5B | 8.3B | 8.1B | 9.0B | 10.1B | 9.0B | 9.4B | 10.4B | 8.0B | 8.3B | 8.5B | 8.8B |
| Gross Margin | 76.4% | 78.6% | 41.1% | 31.5% | 27.0% | 41.7% | 23.5% | 46.8% | 49.0% | 47.5% | 51.2% | N/A | N/A |
| R&D | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| SG&A | 2.4B | 2.6B | 2.7B | 2.7B | 3.0B | 3.2B | 3.0B | 3.3B | 3.6B | 3.0B | 3.2B | 3.3B | 3.5B |
| EBIT | -307M | 38M | 125M | -700M | -1.1B | 363M | -1.2B | 446M | 771M | 362M | 569M | 1.5B | 0 |
| Op. Margin | -3.6% | 0.4% | 1.5% | -8.6% | -12.5% | 3.6% | -13.2% | 4.8% | 7.4% | 4.5% | 6.9% | 18.3% | 0.0% |
| Net Income | 239M | -147M | 179M | -740M | -1.5B | 155M | -1.3B | 330M | 623M | 149M | 266M | 1.2B | 1.1B |
| Net Margin | 2.8% | -1.7% | 2.2% | -9.1% | -16.8% | 1.5% | -14.1% | 3.5% | 6.0% | 1.9% | 3.2% | 14.0% | 12.9% |
| Non-Recurring | 79M | 409M | 89M | 190M | 289M | 141M | 1.2B | 168M | 207M | 119M | 98M | 132M | 121M |
| Returns on Capital | |||||||||||||
| ROIC | 1.8% | 0.3% | 1.2% | -6.4% | -13.9% | 2.6% | -13.4% | 4.9% | 8.1% | 2.3% | 4.2% | 13.0% | 0.0% |
| ROE | 1.9% | -1.2% | 1.5% | -6.6% | -15.1% | 1.7% | -15.2% | 4.2% | 7.6% | 1.8% | 3.3% | 14.0% | 13.2% |
| ROA | 1.5% | -0.9% | 1.2% | -4.9% | -9.8% | 1.0% | -8.5% | 2.1% | 3.7% | 0.9% | 1.6% | 7.3% | 7.3% |
| Cash Flow | |||||||||||||
| Op. Cash Flow | 1.0B | 831M | 878M | 494M | 757M | 928M | 780M | 1.2B | 1.4B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 978M | 1.0B |
| Free Cash Flow | 671M | 523M | 622M | 238M | 393M | 356M | 342M | 847M | 855M | 745M | 741M | 571M | 567M |
| Owner Earnings | 445M | 280M | 318M | 7.0M | 209M | 196M | 67M | 429M | 607M | 590M | 567M | 435M | 443M |
| CapEx | 358M | 308M | 256M | 256M | 364M | 572M | 438M | 390M | 499M | 347M | 357M | 407M | 437M |
| Maint. CapEx | 552M | 498M | 505M | 449M | 472M | 659M | 644M | 680M | 688M | 415M | 440M | 459M | 477M |
| Growth CapEx | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D&A | 552M | 498M | 505M | 449M | 472M | 659M | 644M | 680M | 688M | 415M | 440M | 459M | 477M |
| CapEx/OCF | 44.4% | 31.2% | 29.2% | 51.8% | 48.1% | 61.6% | 56.2% | 31.5% | 36.9% | 45.7% | 39.8% | 41.6% | 43.5% |
| Capital Allocation | |||||||||||||
| Dividends Paid | 24M | 30M | 147M | 152M | 158M | 161M | 158M | 163M | 175M | 174M | 172M | 185M | 206M |
| Dividend Yield | 0.3% | 0.4% | 2.1% | 2.2% | 1.9% | 2.2% | 2.2% | 1.5% | 1.4% | 1.7% | 1.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Share Buybacks | 0 | 30M | 41M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 179M | 243M | 117M | 150M | 492M |
| Buyback Yield | N/A | 0.4% | 0.7% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2.0% | 2.2% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 2.9% |
| Stock-Based Comp | 32M | 53M | 55M | 38M | 76M | 73M | 69M | 128M | 59M | 87M | 91M | 84M | 84M |
| Debt Repayment | 0 | 129M | 0 | 23M | 213M | 1.1B | 1.2B | 557M | 838M | 65M | 409M | 203M | 203M |
| Balance Sheet | |||||||||||||
| Net Debt | -3.2B | -2.0B | -1.5B | -1.6B | -82M | -190M | -258M | 77M | 1.2B | 1.2B | 230M | -441M | -183M |
| Cash & Equiv. | 3.1B | 2.0B | 1.8B | 2.0B | 2.0B | 1.6B | 1.5B | 2.2B | 1.8B | 1.8B | 1.9B | 2.4B | 2.2B |
| Long-Term Debt | 0 | 0 | 369M | 276M | 1.5B | 1.0B | 1.2B | 2.3B | 2.8B | 2.9B | 2.1B | 1.9B | 2.0B |
| Debt/Equity | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.21 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.28 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.26 | 0.22 | 0.23 |
| Interest Coverage | -4.5 | N/A | N/A | -58.3 | -39.0 | 4.4 | -19.5 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 16.6 | 16.6 |
| Equity | 13.2B | 11.9B | 11.6B | 10.8B | 9.3B | 9.1B | 7.6B | 8.2B | 8.2B | 8.1B | 8.1B | 8.8B | 8.6B |
| Total Assets | 16.5B | 15.0B | 15.5B | 14.6B | 16.3B | 15.7B | 14.3B | 16.8B | 17.2B | 16.9B | 16.7B | 15.5B | 15.5B |
| Total Liabilities | 3.1B | 2.9B | 3.9B | 3.5B | 7.1B | 5.4B | 5.9B | 8.6B | 8.1B | 8.0B | 7.7B | 6.1B | 10M |
| Intangibles | 2.1B | 2.2B | 2.2B | 2.3B | 2.7B | 2.4B | 1.9B | 2.2B | 2.7B | 2.5B | 1.9B | 1.9B | 1.9B |
| Retained Earnings | 237M | 88M | 150M | -648M | -2.1B | -2.0B | -3.2B | -2.9B | -2.3B | -2.1B | -1.9B | -747M | -452M |
| Working Capital | 3.0B | 1.9B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.1B | 710M | 779M | 1.2B | 574M | 888M | 1.3B | 2.2B | 1.9B |
| Current Assets | 5.3B | 4.0B | 3.9B | 3.8B | 4.4B | 4.0B | 3.5B | 4.5B | 4.1B | 4.1B | 4.4B | 4.8B | 4.6B |
| Current Liabilities | 2.3B | 2.1B | 2.4B | 2.5B | 3.3B | 3.3B | 2.7B | 3.2B | 3.5B | 3.2B | 3.1B | 2.6B | 2.7B |
| Per Share Data | |||||||||||||
| EPS | 0.41 | -0.26 | 0.30 | -1.27 | -2.60 | 0.26 | -2.16 | 0.56 | 1.05 | 0.26 | 0.46 | 2.07 | 2.00 |
| Owner EPS | 0.76 | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.01 | 0.36 | 0.33 | 0.11 | 0.73 | 1.02 | 1.03 | 0.98 | 0.76 | 0.79 |
| Book Value | 22.72 | 21.13 | 19.38 | 18.52 | 15.93 | 15.34 | 12.91 | 13.93 | 13.86 | 14.07 | 14.04 | 15.39 | 15.29 |
| Cash Flow/Share | 1.77 | 1.47 | 1.47 | 0.85 | 1.30 | 1.56 | 1.33 | 2.10 | 2.28 | 1.91 | 1.90 | 1.72 | 2.87 |
| Dividends/Share | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.28 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.32 | 0.37 |
| Shares Out. | 582.9M | 565.4M | 596.7M | 582.7M | 583.1M | 596.2M | 587.5M | 589.3M | 593.3M | 573.1M | 578.3M | 570.0M | 561.5M |
| Valuation | |||||||||||||
| P/E Ratio | 37.7 | N/A | 32.9 | N/A | N/A | 50.2 | N/A | 41.5 | 14.6 | 74.6 | 61.1 | 16.3 | 15.1 |
| P/FCF | 13.4 | 13.9 | 9.5 | 31.8 | 21.6 | 21.9 | 18.9 | 16.2 | 10.6 | 14.9 | 21.9 | 33.7 | 29.9 |
| EV/EBIT | N/A | 45.1 | 144.3 | 30.3 | N/A | 194.0 | N/A | 80.9 | 169.6 | 26.6 | N/A | 148.0 | N/A |
| Price/Book | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.0 |
| Price/Sales | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| FCF Yield | 7.4% | 7.2% | 10.6% | 3.2% | 4.6% | 4.6% | 5.3% | 6.2% | 9.4% | 6.7% | 4.6% | 3.0% | 3.3% |
| Market Cap | 9.0B | 7.3B | 5.9B | 7.6B | 8.5B | 7.8B | 6.4B | 13.7B | 9.1B | 11.1B | 16.3B | 19.2B | 17.0B |
| Avg. Price | 14.85 | 13.90 | 11.79 | 11.87 | 14.18 | 12.25 | 12.15 | 18.15 | 21.04 | 17.39 | 23.73 | 30.19 | 30.19 |
| Year-End Price | 15.46 | 12.88 | 9.87 | 13.00 | 14.56 | 13.06 | 10.97 | 23.24 | 15.34 | 19.39 | 28.11 | 33.77 | 30.19 |
NEWS CORP passes 4 of 9 quality checks, suggesting mixed fundamentals.
NEWS CORP trades at 14.9x trailing earnings, compared to its 15-year median P/E of 41.5x, suggesting it is currently Cheap relative to its historical range. On a free-cash-flow basis, the stock trades at 19.1x vs a median of 20.2x. The company's 5-year average ROIC is 6.5% with a gross margin of 48.6%. Total shareholder yield (dividends + buybacks) is 4.1%. At current prices, the estimated annualized return to fair value is +17.8%.
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a net profit margin of 14.0%. This is a healthy margin.
NEWS CORP (NWS) generated $571 million in free cash flow in its most recent fiscal year. Positive free cash flow supports dividends, buybacks, and debt reduction.
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.22. This indicates a conservatively financed balance sheet.
NEWS CORP (NWS) reported earnings per share (EPS) of $2.07 in its most recent fiscal year.
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a return on equity (ROE) of 14.0%. This indicates moderate shareholder returns.
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a 5-year average gross margin of 48.6%. This indicates decent pricing power.
The Ledger Terminal provides 14 years of financial data for NEWS CORP (NWS), sourced directly from SEC EDGAR filings. This includes income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and key financial ratios.
NEWS CORP (NWS) has a book value per share of $15.39, based on its most recent annual SEC filing.
Based on recent SEC filings and earnings disclosures, Management is pursuing multiple strategies to exploit opportunities through leveraging global audience scale, valuable data, and sharing technologies and practices across geographies and businesses. The company is capitalizing on a variety of digital distribution platforms, technologies and business models, including licensing content for distribution on third-party platforms and for use by generative artificial intelligence platforms. The company continues to focus on quality and product innovation to deliver products and services in a more engaging, timely and personalized manner.