News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes content for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates through News and Information Services, Book Publishing, Digital Real Estate Services, and Cable Network Programming segments. The company distributes content and data products, including The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron's, MarketWatch, Dow Jones PEVC, and DJX through various media channels, such as newspapers, newswires, Websites, applications for mobile devices, tablets and e-book readers, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences, and videos. It also owns and operates daily, 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 offers home-delivered shopper media that include free-standing inserts and direct mail products; in-store marketing products and services primarily to consumer packaged goods manufacturers; in-store merchandising services; and digital marketing solutions. Further, it publishes general fiction, nonfiction, children's, and religious books; and provides sports programming services with eight television channels distributed through cable, satellite and IP, various interactive viewing applications, and broadcast rights to live sporting events. Additionally, the company offers property and property-related services on its Websites and mobile applications, as well as residential and commercial property Websites; online real estate services; and professional software and services products, which comprise Top Producer, FiveStreet, and ListHub. News Corporation is headquartered in New York, New York.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Industry Newspapers
Sub-IndustryN/A
SectorConsumer Discretionary
SymbolNASDAQ:NWS
CUSIPN/A
Phone212-416-3400
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.02
Current Ratio1.62
Quick Ratio1.64
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio33.54
Forward P/E RatioN/A
P/E GrowthN/A
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$8.14 billion
Price / Sales1.15
Cash Flow$1.1290 per share
Price / Cash14.26
Book Value$17.15 per share
Price / Book0.94
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)N/A
Net Income$-738,000,000.00
Net Margins-18.69%
Return on Equity2.56%
Return on Assets1.95%
Miscellaneous
Employees26,000
Outstanding Shares582,740,000
