News Stock: Analyst Estimates & Ratings

Valued astatine approximately $15.1 cardinal by marketplace cap, New York-based News Corporation (NWSA) operates arsenic a planetary media and accusation services institution that creates and distributes contented crossed assorted platforms, including newspapers, integer media, publication publishing, and subscription video services.

The media elephantine has notably underperformed the broader marketplace implicit the past year. NWSA banal prices have declined 3% connected a YTD ground and 8.4% implicit the past 52 weeks, compared to the S&P 500 Index’s ($SPX) 14.4% gains successful 2025 and 12.7% returns implicit the past year.

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Narrowing the focus, NWSA has besides underperformed the Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF Fund’s (XLC) 15.8% gains connected a YTD ground and 16% surge implicit the past 52 weeks.

News Corp.’s banal prices surged 6.5% successful a azygous trading league pursuing the merchandise of its Q1 results connected Nov. 6. Driven by the continued momentum successful its Dow Jones and Digital Real Estate Services segments, the company’s wide topline for the 4th grew 2% year-over-year to $2.1 billion, beating the Street’s expectations by 1.5%. Meanwhile, its adjusted EPS accrued 10% year-over-year to $0.22, surpassing the consensus estimates by 22.2%.

For the afloat fiscal 2026, ending successful June, analysts expect NWSA to present an adjusted EPS of $0.97, up 9% year-over-year. The institution has a mixed net astonishment history. While it missed the Street’s bottom-line expectations erstwhile implicit the past 4 quarters, it met oregon surpassed the projections connected 3 different occasions.

Among the 10 analysts covering the NWSA stock, the statement standing is simply a “Moderate Buy.” That’s based connected 8 “Strong Buys,” 1 “Hold,” and 1 “Strong Sell.”

This configuration is somewhat little optimistic than a period ago, erstwhile nary of the analysts gave “Strong Sell” ratings connected the stock.

On Aug. 20, JP Morgan expert (JPM) David Karnovsky maintained an "Overweight" standing connected NWSA and raised the terms people from $38 to $40.

NWSA’s mean terms people of $39.10 represents a notable 46.3% premium to existent terms levels. Meanwhile, the street-high people of $45 suggests a staggering 68.4% upside potential.

On the day of publication, Aditya Sarawgi did not person (either straight oregon indirectly) positions successful immoderate of the securities mentioned successful this article. All accusation and information successful this nonfiction is solely for informational purposes. This nonfiction was originally published connected Barchart.com