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News Corp Earnings Preview: Advertising Trends In Print Media And Digital Assets In Focus
News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) will report its fiscal Q2 2015 earnings on February 5th. (Fiscal years end with June.) While we expect continued growth in its digital real estate business, the weakness in print industry may lead to a further revenue drop...
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News Corp: Digital Assets Can Help Improve Advertising Revenues
News Corp ‘s (NASDAQ:NWSA) publishing business has suffered significant losses in the past few years, primarily due to a secular decline in the publishing industry and the rise of digital alternative sources of news and information. The co...
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News Corp Benefits as Higher Demand For E-books And Harlequin Acquisition Will Drive Growth
News Corp ‘s (NASDAQ:NWSA) book publishing operations have been trending well over the past few years. The segment revenues have grown at a steady pace and account for more than 15% of the company’s overall revenues. However, the margins a...
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Harlequin Helps News Corp Post Higher Earnings
News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) recently reported its Q1 fiscal 2015 earnings with 4% revenue growth and 21% jump in EBITDA. (Fiscal years end with June.) Adjusted earnings were $0.09 per share as compared to $0.03 per share in the prior year qu...
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News Corp Q1 Fiscal 2015 Earnings Preview: Watchout For Advertising Trends In News & Information Services
News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) will report its fiscal Q1 2015 earnings on November 5th. While we expect continued growth in its digital real estate business, the weakness in print industry may lead to a further drop in news and information servi...
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Weekly Media Notes: Disney To Inject $1.25 Billion Into Euro Disney; CBS Renews Under The Dome And Extant For Next Season
The media industry saw significant activity last week, with Disney deciding to inject $1.25 billion into the Parisian theme park operated by Euro Disney. In an another development, the print media company, News Corp, will acquire Move Inc. for $9...
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News Corp’s Acquisition Of Move Inc. Will Diversify Its Digital Real Estate Assets
News Corporation ‘s (NASDAQ:NWSA) digital real estate business has been trending well over the past few years. The company recently agreed to acquire Move Inc. for $950 million. Move Inc. operates the Move Network of real estate websites, ...
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How Is News Corp’s Print Media Business Trending?
News Corporation ‘s (NASDAQ:NWSA) publishing business has suffered significant losses in the past few years primarily due to asset writedowns. The division’s cash flows are still positive, but management is aiming to counter the secu...
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Lower Advertising Income Weighs Over News Corp’s Quarterly Results
News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) witnessed a 3% drop in its Q4 fiscal 2014 revenues (fiscal year ends with June). News and information services revenues declined by 6% amid lower advertising income. The company reported adjusted earnings of $0.01 ...
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Currency Fluctuation And Weakness In Print Advertising Weighs Over News Corporation’s Q3 Fiscal 2014 Earnings
News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) recently posted its fiscal Q3 2014 results. The revenues declined by 5% to $2.08 billion and adjusted earnings were $0.11 as compared to $0.13 in the prior year period. While the company continues to see growth at...
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News Corp Q3 Earnings Preview: Watch For Trends In News And Information Service, Book Publishing
News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) will report its fiscal Q3 2014 earnings on May 8. The company came into independent operations last year after the split with 21st Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOX). Accordingly, company results as reported in the 10K and ...
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Long Awaited News Corp Split Is Just Around The Corner
News Corp’s (NASDAQ:NWS) shareholders last week formally approved a plan to split the media giant’s publishing assets from its entertainment division. The split, which will take place on June 28th, 2013, will result in creation of tw...
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What’s At Risk In News Corp’s Feud With Aereo?
Chase Carey, COO of News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS), recently said that Fox Network will go off the air and become a cable channel available only for pay-TV customers if U.S. courts don’t stop Aereo from retransmitting Fox’s programs. A U.S. appeals court...
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A Snapshot Of News Corp’s Broadcasting Division
We estimate that News Corp’s (NASDAQ:NWS) broadcasting business, which includes Fox Broadcasting Network and MyNetworkTV, constitutes roughly 10% of its value. Fox Broadcasting Network offers a wide variety of programs, reaching out to a la...
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News Corp’s Publishing Unit Gets More Cash Boosting Its Implied Valuation
Revealing more details about the split in its media business, News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) recently stated that it will infuse some cash into its publishing unit, which will start off with a total cash pool of $2.6 billion. We estimate that the value o...
