News Corp [NASDAQ: NWSA] surged by $3699970.6 during the normal trading session on Thursday and reaching a high of $29.685 during the day while it closed the day at $3700000.0.
News Corp stock has also gained 5.27% of its value over the past 7 days. However, NWSA stock has inclined by 7.54% in the 3 months of the year. Over the past six months meanwhile, it has gained 6.03% and gained 7.38% year-on date.
The market cap for NWSA stock reached $17.56 billion, with 377.54 million shares outstanding and 376.90 million shares in the current float. Compared to the average trading volume of 3.70M shares, NWSA reached a trading volume of 3549995 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about News Corp [NWSA]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for NWSA shares is $38.14 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on NWSA stock is a recommendation set at 1.67. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
UBS have made an estimate for News Corp shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on February 04, 2025. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Citigroup raised their target price to Buy. The new note on the price target was released on January 10, 2025, representing the official price target for News Corp stock.
The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 2.04, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 3.52. Price to Free Cash Flow for NWSA in the course of the last twelve months was 21.76 with Quick ratio for the last quarter at 1.60.
NWSA stock trade performance evaluation
News Corp [NWSA] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 5.27. With this latest performance, NWSA shares gained by 4.57% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 6.03% over the last 6 months – not to mention a rise of 7.26% in the past year of trading.
News Corp [NWSA]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and News Corp [NWSA] shares currently have an operating margin of 10.04% and a Gross Margin at 46.59%. News Corp’s Net Margin is presently recorded at 5.18%.
Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 2.89%, with Return on Assets sitting at 2.89%.
Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for News Corp [NWSA] stock
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for NWSA. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for News Corp go to 18.22%.
News Corp [NWSA]: Institutional Ownership
There are presently around $103.87%, or 103.96% of NWSA stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of NWSA stocks are: PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ with ownership of 61.74 million shares, which is approximately 10.8086%. VANGUARD GROUP INC, holding 50.18 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$1.38 billion in NWSA stocks shares; and VANGUARD GROUP INC, currently with $$730.57 million in NWSA stock with ownership which is approximately 4.6391%.
