News NASDAQ: NWS reported record fourth-quarter profitability for fiscal 2026, with revenue rising 11% year over year to $2.3 billion and total segment EBITDA increasing 31% to $423 million. Net income from continuing operations climbed 167% to $230 million, while reported earnings per share rose to $0.33 from $0.09 a year earlier and adjusted EPS increased to $0.35 from $0.19.
"We concluded Fiscal 2026 with an exceptional fourth quarter performance, including an 11% increase in revenues to $2.34 billion and the highest profitability on record," News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said.
Digital-only subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal averaged nearly 4.5 million in the quarter, compared with 4.33 million in the prior quarter.
News Corp , facing a lawsuit by search engine Brave Software, has filed a countersuit accusing it of "flagrant theft" in distributing and selling versions of articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post to AI companies.
News NASDAQ: NWS reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 results that Chief Executive Robert Thomson described as the company's “12th straight quarter of profitability growth on a continuing operations basis,” citing higher revenue, expanding margins and profit gains across several core businesses.
59 North Capital Management LP lessened its holdings in News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS) by 39.6% in the undefined quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 2,141,709 shares of the company's stock after selling 1,402,008 shares during the quarter. News accounts for
News Corporation (NWSA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now but, for the most part, those efforts have been just that: experiments. A relatively unknown startup, Symbolic.ai, wants to change that, and it just signed a major deal with News Corp, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Media conglomerate News Corp beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Thursday, driven by growth at its Dow Jones and digital real estate services segments.
Robert Thomson, CEO of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which was sued by Donald Trump last month over a Wall Street Journal story about his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, hit back at Trump on different grounds.
Thomson has pursued digital growth and focused the company on core areas of news, book publishing and digital real estate.
News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA ) Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call May 8, 2025 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Michael Florin - Senior Vice President and Head, Investor Relations Robert Thomson - Chief Executive Officer Lavanya Chandrashekar - Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Kane Hannan - Goldman Sachs Entcho Raykovski - Evans & Partners David Joyce - Seaport Research Frank Huber - Huber Research Alan Gould - Loop Capital Evan Karatzas - UBS Operator Welcome to the News Corp's Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded.