In last trading session, News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) saw 0.78 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.24. Company’s recent per share price level of $33.87 trading at -$0.09 or -0.27% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $17.51B. That closing price of NWS’s stock is at a discount of -4.07% from its 52-week high price of $35.25 and is indicating a premium of 23.12% from its 52-week low price of $26.04. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.03 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 775.66K if we extend that period to 3-months.
News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.27%, in the last five days NWS remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 06/27/25 when the stock touched $33.87 price level, adding 0.56% to its value on the day. News Corp’s shares saw a change of 17.97% in year-to-date performance and have moved 3.90% in past 5-day. News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) showed a performance of 2.95% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 6.16 million shares which calculate 10.35 days to cover the short interests.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 11.96% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 28.32% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 18.87%.
NWS Dividends
News Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report in July and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 0.59%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.20 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.95%.
News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 41.12% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 43.79 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 74.36%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 43.79% institutions for News Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. SOF LTD is the top institutional holder at NWS for having 9.78 million shares of worth $277.71 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 1.7125 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is INDEPENDENT FRANCHISE PARTNERS LLP, which was holding about 9.3 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 1.628 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $264.0 million.
On the other hand, SELECT SECTOR SPDR TRT-The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR F and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 5.1 shares of worth $172.61 million or 2.70% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.99 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $101.38 million in the company or a holder of 1.58% of company’s stock.
