NEWS CORPORATION
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $30.65, NEWS CORPORATION (NWSA) is priced for +7.2% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 27, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• News Corp's Class A voting shares change hands around $25.27, a discount to the Class B nonvoting line near $28.75, an unusual flip that says the market is pricing the controlled-company structure, not the underlying earnings stream, which are identical across both classes. • The clearest risk is concentration in declining formats: circulation, subscription, and advertising together make up roughly half the revenue mix, and the company competes ⟦"from other providers of information, news, real
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566 institutional managers reported holding NWSA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 70% of the company; the top 10 hold 40%. 69 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, State Street, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 16.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (3.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
NWSA has cut its share count 6.4% over the past five years, spending $1.15B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (14 and counting), raised 2 years straight; the current rate is $0.20 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $506.00M in dividends and $723.00M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at NWSA over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 15 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
NWSA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-13 | +8.6% | +11.1% |
| 2023-08-16 | -2.4% | +3.8% |
| 2023-11-10 | -2.3% | +15.9% |
| 2024-02-09 | +7.3% | -6.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
NWSA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-28 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-08-27 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-08-26 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-08-25 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-08-24 (items 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 27, 2026
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