NWS
NEWS CORPEvidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · NEWS CORP
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 in 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, Bar…
Management team
- Ms. Susan Lee Panuccio B.Bus (Hons), BBUS (Dist), ICCA · Senior AdviserFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Lavanya Chandrashekar · Chief Financial OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Ruth Allen · Executive VP & Chief Human Resources OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. David B. Pitofsky · Executive VP & General CounselFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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−0.4 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
Revenue has fluctuated across the last eight quarters, ranging from $ 2,009,000,000 in Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-03-31) to $ 2,577,000,000 in Q1 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2024-09-30), with the most recent reported quarter, Q3 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-03-31), at $ 2,185,000,000. Quarterly net income has been volatile over the same span, from $ 50,000,000 in Q3 2024 (fiscal quarter ended 2024-03-31) up to $ 215,000,000 in Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2024-12-31), and $ 89,000,000 in Q3 2026.
Calculated margins illustrate that variability: Q3 2026’s net margin was roughly 4.07% ( $ 89,000,000 / $ 2,185,000,000 ), versus about 8.17% in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-12-31) and 5.22% in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-09-30). Balance-sheet items show long-term debt declined from $ 2,900,000,000 as of 2024-09-30 to $ 1,962,000,000 as of 2025-06-30 and was $ 1,989,000,000 as of 2026-06-30, while stockholders’ equity moved modestly between $ 8,120,000,000 (2024-06-30) and $ 8,774,000,000 (2025-06-30), then $ 8,526,000,000 as of 2026-06-30.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Reported quarterly revenues have fluctuated across the last 8 quarters: 2,577,000,000 for the quarter 2024-07-01 to 2024-09-30, 2,238,000,000 for 2024-10-01 to 2024-12-31, 2,009,000,000 for 2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31, 2,109,000,000 for 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30, 2,144,000,000 for 2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 2,362,000,000 for 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-31, and 2,185,000,000 for 2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001564708-24-000599Quarterly net income has been volatile over the same periods: 119,000,000 for 2024-07-01 to 2024-09-30, 215,000,000 for 2024-10-01 to 2024-12-31, 103,000,000 for 2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31, 50,000,000 for 2024-04-01 to 2024-06-30, 112,000,000 for 2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 193,000,000 for 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-31, and 89,000,000 for 2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001564708-24-000599Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
The Company states that its Management's Discussion and Analysis contains forward-looking statements and disclaims any obligation to publicly update those statements; it identifies words such as "expect," "will," "estimate," "anticipate," "predict," "believe," and "should" as indicators of forward-looking statements.
Management's discussion · filed 2026-08-07The MD&A notes that fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2025 each included 52 weeks and that the discussion omits discussion of fiscal 2024, directing readers to the MD&A in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 for that year.
Management's discussion · filed 2026-08-07Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Momentum over the last 6 months is +31.0% and the stock ranks in the 88th percentile of the 547-stock research universe for 6-month momentum.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateMomentum measured by the 12_1 metric is -4.2% and the stock ranks in the 26th percentile of the 547-stock research universe for that metric, indicating weaker intermediate-term momentum by that measure.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, the fund IVV holds 0.01% weight of NWS in that ETF's portfolio.
ETF constituents · market dataThere are 10 Form 4 filings for NWS listed in the evidence, with filed dates clustered on 2026-08-05 and 2026-08-18.
Form 4 × 10 (90d window not enforced here)Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
News Corp's announced share repurchase program applies only to Nasdaq-listed stock and excludes ASX Chess Depository Interests (ASX holders).
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-09-01Coverage highlights News Corp's updated US-focused capital program with emphasis on digital growth, cash discipline and capital efficiency.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-08-30Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Robert J. Thomson (Chief Executive Officer) reported a sale of "$7.0M" for "240578" shares on 2026-08-15 (filing shows no trading-plan flag).
Form 4 · Thomson Robert J (Chief Executive Officer) · $0 code M · 2026-08-15David B. Pitofsky (General Counsel) reported a sale of "$1.5M" for "51423" shares on 2026-08-17 (filing shows no trading-plan flag).
Form 4 · Pitofsky David B (General Counsel) · $1.5M sold · 2026-08-17Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The filings on record don't carry four quarters of both operating cash flow and capital expenditure. IFRS filers report no common capex concept, so no FCF claim is made..
Debate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several documented items jointly support a favorable read: the company materially reduced long-term debt from $2.9B to about $2.0B (fundamentals-4), increased share repurchase cash flow in at least one later quarter (fundamentals-3), and public communications emphasize a US-focused capital program prioritizing digital growth and capital efficiency (news-1). Market signals showing strong 6-month momentum (+31%, market-0), price above the 50- and 200-day SMAs with a 60-day-old golden cross (market-2), and low beta to the S&P (market-4) add technical and market-sensitivity context; these items are well-sourced in the evidence and therefore have moderate-to-strong evidentiary support. The revenue and net income series show quarter-to-quarter variability (fundamentals-0, fundamentals-1, fundamentals-2), but the balance-sheet improvement and explicit capital-allocation actions create a narrative of improving financial flexibility; those balance-sheet and buyback datapoints are directly reported and thus carry stronger evidentiary weight than single-quarter profit swings. Against common bearish points (insider sales, elevated realized volatility, multi-year drawdown), the evidence for deleterious company-specific deterioration is weaker: insider filings are numerous but are raw sale reports without parsed context in some entries (insider-0 through insider-5; ownership-2), and market volatility/drawdown metrics are factual (market-3, market-5) but describe historical price behavior rather than company operational failure.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
diversified0.27
30 surviving claims rest on 18 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 20% of them, and 97% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving read is supported by a moderate breadth of sources but shows some analyst concentration: one analyst authored a fifth of surviving claims, so that individual's views materially shape the desk view. The very high survival rate from internal debate implies the claims passed scrutiny, increasing their apparent robustness, but source concentration and the mix of parsed vs unparsed filings mean this read should carry caution and be weighed with attention to original documents.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 4th of 7 in Entertainment (as of 2026-09-01).
6-month relative strength ranks 2nd of 7 in Entertainment (as of 2026-09-01).
90-day volatility ranks 5th of 7 in Entertainment (as of 2026-09-01).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
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19 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.2 to the score
11 documents· 1 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash−0.1 to the score
2 holdings records
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
7 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−2.0 to the score
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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