NWS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (News - Class B | NASDAQ:NWS)

News Corporation is a diversified media and information services conglomerate with significant presence in the US, the UK, and Australia. Key mastheads include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph. Its 61%-owned REA Group is the dominant property listings platform in Australia. In addition, it owns Harper Collins, one of the largest book publishers in the world, and has a sizable US digital property advertising business, Move. The 65% interest in Foxtel, the Australian pay-TV and streaming provider, was sold in April 2025. The sale to global sports streaming platform, DAZN, was struck at more than 7 times Foxtel's EBITDA.

News - Class B trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol NWS.

As of August 28, 2026, NWS stock price declined to $34.85 with 1,538,283 million shares trading.

NWS has a beta of 0.51, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NWS has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NWS has a market cap of $18.73 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter News - Class B reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.35 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $112 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.13.

In the last 3 years, NWS traded as high as $35.76 and as low as $20.01.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NWS belongs to (by Net Assets): XLC, VOO, VB, VTI, RSP.

NWS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +2.9%, while SPY returned +19.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in NWS shares. However, NWS has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +14.9% and +5.1%, while SPY returned +2.2% and -0.9%, respectively. This indicates NWS has been having a stronger performance recently.

NWS support price is $34.66 and resistance is $35.98 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NWS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.