NASDAQ:NWSA - News Stock Price, News, & Analysis

News trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NWSA."

News announced a Semi-Annual dividend on Thursday, August 9th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, September 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.10 per share on Wednesday, October 17th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.47%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 11th. View News' Dividend History.

News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) released its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 7th. The company reported $0.17 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.05 by $0.12. The company had revenue of $2.52 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.53 billion. News had a negative net margin of 15.61% and a positive return on equity of 2.99%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 22.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.07 EPS. View News' Earnings History.

News is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 14th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for News.

5 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for News' shares. Their predictions range from $12.50 to $17.00. On average, they expect News' stock price to reach $14.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for News.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for News in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for News.

News headlines about NWSA stock have trended neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. News earned a news sentiment score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

News saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 14,435,075 shares, an increase of 31.9% from the October 15th total of 10,945,318 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,648,643 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.1 days. View News' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to News include News (NWS), New York Times (NYT), Gannett (GCI), New Media Investment Group (NEWM), Tribune Publishing (TPCO), Daily Journal (DJCO), Lee Enterprises (LEE), A. H. Belo (AHC), TheStreet (TST), Rediff.com India (REDFY) and tronc (TRNC).

News' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (4.24%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (3.87%), Independent Franchise Partners LLP (2.75%), International Value Advisers LLC (2.14%), Dodge & Cox (1.97%) and Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC (1.28%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for News.

NWSA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., AQR Capital Management LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Man Group plc and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. View Insider Buying and Selling for News.

NWSA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Independent Franchise Partners LLP, Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC, Burgundy Asset Management Ltd., Janus Henderson Group PLC, AXA, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP and Korea Investment CORP. View Insider Buying and Selling for News.

Shares of NWSA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NWSA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.83.

News has a market capitalization of $7.94 billion and generates $9.02 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-1,514,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.44 on an earnings per share basis. News employs 28,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for News is http://www.newscorp.com.

News' mailing address is 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY, 10036. The company can be reached via phone at 212-416-3400 or via email at [email protected]