NEWS CORPORATION
NWS · Materials · FY2026 filings · · Not rated ·
Not rated
We don't have enough comparable filing data to score at least four of the five filters for NWS, so we don't publish a composite. Missing: pricingPower, returnsOnCapital. No composite: 2 components abstained (pricingPower: Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power.; returnsOnCapital: Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital.).
16 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
Across the filed record, revenue grew from $8.7B (FY2012) to $9.0B (FY2026) — about 0.3% a year compounded over 14 years.
The balance sheet carried $2.0B of total debt in FY2026 against $632M of owner earnings — roughly 3.1 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 78/100.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
Not disclosed in NWS’s filings for these years — we don’t estimate it.
Exact FY and FY-1 financing invested-capital inputs are required.. Current-year EBIT, tax expense, and non-zero pretax income are required for standard ROIC.
Exact FY and FY-1 financing invested-capital inputs are required.. Current-year EBIT, tax expense, and non-zero pretax income are required for standard ROIC.
The explained ROIC gaps have filed inputs but no meaningful positive invested-capital denominator. Other gaps mean the item is not in the filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Visual explainers
The filing-backed explainer service is temporarily unavailable, so no partial or guessed chart is shown.
Moat Score history
No composite readings yet — NWS’s filings don’t give the engine enough comparable data to score, and we log that honestly instead of guessing a number.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
None yet — NWS hasn't been rated on any logged capture, so there's no tier to change from.
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
The insider-filing service is temporarily unavailable, so no partial or guessed answer is shown for NWS.
Materials context
Not ranked — NWS doesn’t have enough comparable filing data for a composite score, so we don’t place it on the board.
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Common questions about NWS
- Does NEWS CORPORATION have an economic moat?
- We don't publish a Moat Score for NEWS CORPORATION (NWS): its SEC filings don't provide enough comparable data to score at least four of the five filters, and the Index records each gap rather than a guessed number. Missing inputs: pricing power, returns on capital.
- How has NWS's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 3 readings since Sep 4, 2026, none with a composite — NWS hasn't had enough comparable filing data to score. No tier changes on record yet. The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.