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News Corp. NWS

15 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$9.0B
▲ 6.8% YoY
$573.0M
▼ 51.4% YoY
$811.0M
▲ 42.0% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

News Corporation is a media and information services company focused on creating and distributing content and other products and services to consumers and businesses throughout the world. Headquartered in New York, the Company operates primarily in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, with its content and other products and services distributed and consumed worldwide. The Company's operations are organized into five reportable segments: Dow Jones, Digital Real Estate Services, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other. The Company's Dow Jones segment is a global provider of news, data and business information distributed through a variety of owned and off-platform media channels, including websites, mobile apps, newspapers, newswires, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video and podcasts. The Company's Digital Real Estate Services segment consists of its 62.0% interest in REA Group, a publicly-traded company listed on ASX, and its 80% interest in Move. The Company's Book Publishing segment consists of HarperCollins, which has operations in 15 countries. The Company's News Media segment consists primarily of News Corp Australia, News UK and the New York Post. News Corporation is a Delaware corporation originally organized on December 11, 2012 in connection with its separation from Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., which was completed on June 28, 2013.

Written from the business description in NEWS CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 7 August 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 9.0B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 15-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 9.0 · Net income 0.6
5B10B-1B-2B
201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+4.1%
−0.7%
+0.9%
+56.7%
+11.7%
+12.3%
+58.2%
+13.0%
+13.1%
+26.5%
+39.0%
+19.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −0.7% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +11.7%, earnings per share at +13.0%.

The share count fell from 0.20B to 0.19B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

8 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 11.6% · Net 8.2%
5%10%15%-10%-20%
201120182025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 6.6%
5%10%-10%-20%
201120182025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have a clean operating profit figure for this period.
Gross margin·
Operating margin11.6%
Net margin8.2%
EBITDAUSD 1.4B

Each USD of equity produced 7 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 845.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 811.0
300M600M
201120182025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 204.0 · Net buybacks 641.0
300M600MDividendsNet buybacks
20112013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paidUSD 204.0M
Net buybacksUSD 641.0M
Share of profit147.5%
Consecutive raises·

USD 204.0M in dividends and USD 641.0M in buybacks — 147% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 15.5B
EquityUSD 8.5B
CashUSD 2.1B
Gross debtUSD 2.0B
Net debtUSD -106.0M
Current ratio1.62×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 15-year record

15 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
NWS, 15-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011
Revenue $B9.08.58.38.010.49.49.010.19.08.18.38.58.58.98.7
Operating income $B1.00.90.60.40.80.5−1.50.4−1.1−0.60.20.6−0.20.2−2.4
EBITDA $B1.41.30.90.71.41.0−1.00.9−0.7−0.30.61.0◌◌◌
Income tax $B0.30.30.20.20.10.10.00.10.40.0−0.10.2−0.6−0.4−0.3
Net income $B0.61.20.30.10.60.3−1.30.2−1.5−0.70.2−0.10.20.5−2.1
Free cash flow $B0.80.60.50.40.90.80.30.40.40.20.60.50.70.20.5
EPS, diluted $1.032.070.460.261.050.56−2.160.26−2.60−1.270.30−0.260.410.87−3.58
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.200.200.200.000.00◌◌
Payout %3616651172849−12104−10−2182−20104−1
ROE %6.614.03.31.87.64.2−15.21.7−15.1−6.61.5−1.21.94.7−23.3
Shares out B0.190.190.190.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.58◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 58 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 15 of the 15 fiscal years we could check. 10 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2012. Four checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2011.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityNewspapers: Publishing or Publishing & Printing
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsJune 30
Data on record since2011

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