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Runs the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires through one shared newsroom, and owns Australia's dominant property listings platform.
- Depends onMidstream position: 4 outgoing, 5 incoming connections
- ScaleLevered free cash flow is higher than 95% of all stocks globally
- FinancialsAltman Z-Score: grey zone
- Interpretations1 currently firing — 1
Latest report · July 11, 2026
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News Corporation runs Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal through a single editorial workforce — the same journalists file breaking financial news to professional terminals and populate the newspaper in the same deadline cycle, so one act of reporting generates two separate subscription revenue streams at once. Because the two products share reporters rather than exchanging licensed feeds, a competitor cannot replicate the bundle by buying a wire service licence; they would have to build a wire audience and a newspaper audience simultaneously while staffing a unified newsroom to serve both, which capital alone cannot solve. The flip side is that a journalist strike or a technical failure hits the professional terminal and the newspaper at the same moment, since there is no separate backup workforce for either product. Sitting alongside this, REA Group in Australia runs a property-listing marketplace where agents pay to reach consumers whose accumulated search history already concentrates on the platform, a business that operates on entirely different economics — but one that shrinks whenever Australian foreign investment rules reduce the pool of transactions agents need to list.
How does this company make money?
Dow Jones charges financial services firms a recurring fee for professional terminal access to its real-time wire. The Wall Street Journal and The Times collect digital and print subscription fees from individual readers. REA Group charges Australian real estate agents listing fees and sells advertising on its platform. HarperCollins earns money from book sales to retailers and directly to consumers.
What makes this company hard to replace?
Wall Street Journal subscribers get Dow Jones newswire integration and market data bundled with their editorial access — competitors cannot offer that combination without licensing Dow Jones feeds, which would not reproduce the same product. Australian real estate agents on REA Group would have to abandon their existing property listing histories and walk away from a platform where consumers already concentrate their searches, which directly costs them leads.
What limits this company?
The Dow Jones editorial workforce sets the ceiling for both products. Signing up more terminal subscribers or more newspaper subscribers does not cost much extra — but producing more real-time financial coverage requires experienced journalists with established source networks in major financial centers, and those people cannot be hired or trained quickly.
What does this company depend on?
The company cannot run without editorial staff who hold press credentials and have built source networks in major financial centers. It also depends on newsprint supply contracts to print physical newspapers, printing facility leases in New York and London, retail distribution networks to move HarperCollins books to stores, and real estate agents in Australia continuing to pay for subscriptions to REA Group's platform.
Who depends on this company?
Financial traders who use Wall Street Journal market-opening coverage for pre-market decisions would lose critical timing if the service stopped. Australian real estate agents who rely on REA Group would lose their primary channel for finding buyers, in a market where REA Group dominates property search. Independent bookstores that stock HarperCollins titles would face gaps across major publishing categories.
How does this company scale?
Digital subscription delivery and REA Group's property listing software can reach more users at almost no added cost once the systems are built. What does not scale cheaply is the editorial work — gathering financial news and acquiring books both require experienced journalists and editors whose judgment and source relationships cannot be automated or quickly multiplied by spending more money.
What external forces can significantly affect this company?
Australian foreign investment restrictions on residential property purchases shrink the pool of transactions that REA Group can list, directly reducing listing volumes. Sterling-to-dollar exchange rate swings affect how profitable The Times and The Sun look when results are converted into USD for reporting. Changes to U.S. postal service delivery schedules can push Wall Street Journal print subscribers in suburban markets to cancel.
Where is this company structurally vulnerable?
If Dow Jones wire journalists went on strike, or if the technical systems that carry the wire failed, both the professional terminal product and the Wall Street Journal's financial reporting would collapse at the same moment — because they draw from the same people and the same infrastructure. The integration that locks subscribers in is exactly what causes both revenue streams to fall together when something goes wrong.
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Two observations describe the retention path: net income as a share of pretax income shows a near-zero effective tax rate, and net income as a share of EBIT shows that interest and tax together consume little of operating profit.
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Latest News Corporation Class B Common Stock report
News Corporation Class B Common Stock
July 11, 2026 · CompanyGraph · NWS
Across FY2021 through FY2025, News Corporation reported positive net income every year, confirmed from its own figures, with taxes and interest together taking little out of operating profit. What stands out structurally is that CompanyGraph reads two unlike engines under one roof — an expertise-bound financial-news operation and a participation-driven Australian listings platform — and reads the news side as possibly running one editorial staff to feed both a professional product and a newspaper at once. That integration is a reading, not a confirmed fact; the segment weights and newsroom structure that would settle it aren't visible in the data on file.
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