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

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

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

News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November, 7th. The company reported $0.17 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.05 by $0.12. The company earned $2.52 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.53 billion. News had a negative net margin of 15.61% and a positive return on equity of 2.99%. News's revenue was up 22.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for News' stock. Their predictions range from $12.50 to $17.00. On average, they anticipate News' stock price to reach $14.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 17.1% 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 coverage about NWSA stock has trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. News earned a news sentiment score of -2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near 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 trading volume of 4,648,643 shares, the days-to-cover 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 variety 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 $12.60.

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]