News
NWSA Nasdaq· Publishing
Last close · Oct 27, 2026
$29.97
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- News had $9.0B of revenue in fiscal 2026, up 6.8% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed −0.7% a year on average.
- News made $573M of net profit in fiscal 2026.
- Free cash flow was $811M in fiscal 2026, 9.0% of revenue.
- News returned $845M to shareholders in fiscal 2026, 104% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 2.0%.
- News has $106M more cash than debt.
Market cap
$16.7B
P/E
—
Revenue
$9.0B
Net income
$573M
Free cash flow
$811M
Operating margin
—
News in 30 seconds · fiscal 2026
Are sales growing?
+6.8%
Yes. Sales grew 6.8% last year.
Does it make a profit?
6.4%
A little. It keeps 6.4% of every sale as profit.
Does profit turn into cash?
9.0%
Partly. 9.0% of sales ends up as free cash.
Is debt under control?
Net cash
Yes. It has more cash than debt.
How healthy are the accounts?
5 / 8
Mixed. It passes 5 of 8 health tests.
What News does
News Corp is a media and information company. It owns The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and other Dow Jones news and data products, the HarperCollins book publisher, newspapers such as The Times, The Sun and The Australian, the property sites realestate.com.au and Realtor.com, and the radio brand talkSPORT. It operates mainly in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The company says its revenue comes from subscriptions, circulation sales, advertising, sales of real estate listing products, licensing fees and other consumer product sales. It reports five segments: Dow Jones, Digital Real Estate Services, Book Publishing, News Media and Other, which holds corporate costs and costs of the U.K. newspaper legal matters. At Dow Jones, digital products made up 84% of segment revenues in fiscal 2026. News Corp also licenses its content to technology companies and AI platforms.
Biggest risks, in its own words
- Competition from other media, and its ability to keep up with new technology and changes in how people read, watch and shop.
- A drop in advertising spending, or changes in the online advertising market that cut its advertising revenue.
- Its dependence on a single or limited number of suppliers for some products, services, data and information.
- Developments in AI, including its own use of AI, which could harm its business or reputation.
- Fiscal year ends
- June 30, 2026
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Aug 7, 2026
- Legal name
- NEWS CORPORATION
- CIK
- 0001564708
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD.
| Fiscal year | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $10.4B | $8.0B | $8.3B | $8.5B | $9.0B |
| Revenue growth | 11.0% | −22.9% | 3.0% | 2.4% | 6.8% |
| Net income | $623M | $149M | $266M | $1.2B | $573M |
| Net margin | 6.0% | 1.9% | 3.2% | 14.0% | 6.4% |
| Diluted EPS | $1.05 | $0.26 | $0.46 | $2.07 | $1.03 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $1.4B | $1.1B | $1.1B | $978M | $1.2B |
| Capital expenditure | $499M | $347M | $357M | $407M | $426M |
| Free cash flow | $855M | $745M | $741M | $571M | $811M |
| FCF margin | 8.2% | 9.3% | 9.0% | 6.8% | 9.0% |
| Dividends paid | $175M | $174M | $172M | $185M | $204M |
| Share buybacks | $179M | $243M | $117M | $150M | $641M |
| Share count change | −0.2% | −2.3% | −0.9% | −0.6% | −2.0% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $1.8B | $1.8B | $1.9B | $2.4B | $2.1B |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $3.1B | $3.0B | $2.1B | $2.0B | $2.0B |
| Shareholders' equity | $8.2B | $8.1B | $8.1B | $8.8B | $8.5B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 0.8x | 1.5x | 0.2x | −0.3x | −0.1x |
| Current ratio | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.4x | 1.8x | 1.6x |
| Interest coverage | 9.5x | 7.2x | 7.0x | 10.9x | 12.6x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 8.6% | 2.6% | 4.5% | 7.8% | 8.9% |
| Return on equity | 7.6% | 1.8% | 3.3% | 14.0% | 6.6% |
| Piotroski F-score | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 |
| Altman Z'' | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$3.2M
5 insiders
Of sales under plans
0%
$0.0M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
Similar companies
Each company’s latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so periods don’t line up exactly.
| Company | Market cap | Growth | Op. margin | FCF margin | ROIC | P/E | F-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News NWSA | $16.7B | 6.8% | — | 9.0% | 8.9% | — | 5 |
| New York Times NYT | $11.4B | 9.2% | 15.3% | 19.5% | 23.8% | 29.1x | 7 |
| John Wiley & Sons WLY | $2.7B | −0.1% | 16.5% | 12.5% | 19.0% | 14.2x | 8 |
| Scholastic SCHL | $740M | −2.7% | 1.0% | 0.2% | 1.1% | 27.6x | 7 |
| SiriusXM SIRI | $9.3B | −1.6% | 17.2% | 14.6% | 5.3% | 10.9x | 6 |
Price compared with profit (P/E)
How many times its yearly profit per share one share costs. Higher means investors pay more for each unit of profit.
KIRA
At $29.97 a share, the company is worth $16.7B.
News grew sales faster than 3 of its 4 similar companies.
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0001564708). Data updated October 9, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.