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

News Corporation is a diversified media conglomerate with large 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 December 18, 2025, NWS stock price climbed to $29.77 with 1,104,733 million shares trading.

NWS has a beta of 0.83, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NWS has a correlation of 0.36 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NWS has a market cap of $16.58 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter News - Class B reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.22 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $27 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.04.

In the last 3 years, NWS traded as high as $35.58 and as low as $15.73.

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

NWS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -3.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +13.1%. In the last 3 month period, NWS fell short of the market, returning -10.2%, while SPY returned +2.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks NWS has outperformed the stock market by returning +2.6%, while SPY returned -1.1%.

NWS support price is $29.20 and resistance is $30.02 (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.