NWSNews Corp (Class B)
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (AA), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$3.2M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -52% · now 9% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can NWS take a bad year?
News Corp (Class B) holds $106M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Debt / equity
- 0.23×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $1.99B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.10B
- Net cash
- $106M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $5.62B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $5.14B
- Debt / equity
- 0.23×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.35×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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