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NASDAQ:NWS

News (NWS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

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$30.70 +0.24 (+0.79%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:31 PM ET)

About News Stock (NASDAQ:NWS)

Key Stats

Today's Range
$30.31
$30.82
50-Day Range
$27.48
$32.79
52-Week Range
$23.99
$32.87
Volume
1.53 million shs
Average Volume
740,153 shs
Market Capitalization
$17.46 billion
P/E Ratio
49.52
Dividend Yield
0.65%
Price Target
N/A
Consensus Rating
Strong Buy

Company Overview

News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes authoritative and engaging content, and other products and services for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates through six segments: Digital Real Estate Services, Subscription Video Services, Dow Jones, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other. The company distributes content and data products, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones Energy through various media channels, such as newspapers, newswires, websites, mobile apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video, and podcasts. It also owns and operates Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, weekly, and bi-weekly newspapers comprising The Australian, The Weekend Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail, The Advertiser, Sunday Mail, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, The Times, The Sunday Times, and New York Post, as well as digital mastheads and other websites. In addition, the company publishes general fiction, nonfiction, children's, and religious books; provides sports, entertainment, and news services to pay-TV and streaming subscribers, and other commercial licensees through satellite and internet distribution; and broadcasts rights to live sporting events. Further, it offers property and property-related advertising and services on its websites and mobile applications; digital real estate services; and financial services. News Corporation was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

News Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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15th Percentile Overall Score

NWS MarketRank™: 

News scored higher than 15% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 267th out of 287 stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of News is 49.52, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 113.35.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of News is 49.52, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Discretionary sector average P/E ratio of about 18.33.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    News has a P/B Ratio of 1.94. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    3.60% of the float of News has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    News has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 5.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in News has recently increased by 0.27%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing.
  • Dividend Yield

    News has a dividend yield of 0.64%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

  • Dividend Growth

    News does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

  • Dividend Coverage

    The dividend payout ratio of News is 32.26%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

  • Read more about News' dividend.
  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    3.60% of the float of News has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    News has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 5.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in News has recently increased by 0.27%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing.
  • News Sentiment

    News has a news sentiment score of 0.61. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Consumer Discretionary companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 6 news articles for News this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.
  • Search Interest

    3 people have searched for NWS on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 200% compared to the previous 30 days.
  • MarketBeat Follows

    8 people have added News to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 700% compared to the previous 30 days.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

    In the past three months, News insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    13.68% of the stock of News is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    Only 14.63% of the stock of News is held by institutions.

  • Read more about News' insider trading history.
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NWS Stock News Headlines

News Corp
Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family’s trust over Fox News media empire control rejected
A sealed document obtained by The New York Times says a Nevada commissioner has ruled against Rupert Murdoch’s effort to change his family’s trust to give his son Lachlan Murdoch control of his media empire and ensure Fox News maintains its conservative editorial slant
A ChapGPT logo is seen in West Chester, Pa., on December 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Canadian news publishers sue OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement
A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system
Media Humiliated: Demo of Elon’s Tech Proves They’re Wrong
Elon Musk believes his new AI product will be worth an incredible $9 trillion. But the mainstream media is not buying it.
News Corporation Unveils $1 Billion Stock Buyback
News Corporation Launches $1 Billion Share Buy-Back
News Corporation Unveils $1 Billion Stock Buy-Back
News Corporation Announces $1 Billion Buyback Plan
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NWS Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

News' stock was trading at $25.72 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, NWS shares have increased by 19.4% and is now trading at $30.70.
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News Co. (NASDAQ:NWS) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 10th. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The business had revenue of $2.43 billion for the quarter. News had a net margin of 3.49% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.76%.

The following companies are subsidiaries of News: Investor's Business Daily, News Technology Services, Wireless Group plc, Unruly, VCCircle, BigDecisions, NWS Digital India Pvt Ltd, and others.

News' top institutional investors include State Street Corp (1.24%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.50%), Metropolis Capital Ltd (0.16%) and Yacktman Asset Management LP (0.09%). Insiders that own company stock include Susan Panuccio, David B Pitofsky and Marygrace Degrazio.
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Shares of NWS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that News investors own include IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), Tesla (TSLA), Broadcom (AVGO), Applied Materials (AMAT), NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Company Calendar

Last Earnings
8/10/2023
Ex-Dividend for 10/9 Dividend
9/11/2024
Dividend Payable
10/09/2024
Today
12/21/2024
Fiscal Year End
6/30/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Industry
Newspapers
Sub-Industry
Printing And Publishing
Current Symbol
NASDAQ:NWS
Fax
N/A
Employees
23,900
Year Founded
1979

Profitability

Net Income
$266 million
Pretax Margin
6.44%

Debt

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
$10.16 billion
Cash Flow
$1.95 per share
Book Value
$15.83 per share

Miscellaneous

Free Float
490,882,000
Market Cap
$17.46 billion
Optionable
Optionable
Beta
1.38

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This page (NASDAQ:NWS) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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