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News (NWS) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 26.65 (As of May. 22, 2025)


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What is News Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-05-22), News's current share price is $31.98. News's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $1.20. News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 26.65.

The historical rank and industry rank for News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF or its related term are showing as below:

NWS' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 14.81   Med: 23.81   Max: 31.18
Current: 25.61

During the past years, News's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 31.18. The lowest was 14.81. And the median was 23.81.

NWS's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
63.64% of 341 companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 15.76 vs NWS: 25.61

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF. The Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted free cash flow per share of a company over the past 10 years.

News's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $1.010. Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share, which is $1.20 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2025.

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News Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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News Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

News Annual Data
Trend Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23 Jun24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 29.22 15.51 17.73 25.43

News Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 23.75 25.43 25.26 27.00 25.09

Competitive Comparison of News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Entertainment subindustry, News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF falls into.


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News Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF takes the Free Cash Flow per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/FCF calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPFCF Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF.

News's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=31.98/1.20
=26.65

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

News's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, News's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Mar. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2025)
=1.01/134.9266*134.9266
=1.010

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

News Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 -0.145 100.684 -0.194
201509 0.134 100.392 0.180
201512 0.254 99.792 0.343
201603 0.202 100.470 0.271
201606 0.479 101.688 0.636
201609 -0.551 101.861 -0.730
201612 0.366 101.863 0.485
201703 0.272 102.862 0.357
201706 0.321 103.349 0.419
201709 -0.113 104.136 -0.146
201712 0.244 104.011 0.317
201803 0.324 105.290 0.415
201806 0.220 106.317 0.279
201809 -0.034 106.507 -0.043
201812 0.194 105.998 0.247
201903 0.255 107.251 0.321
201906 0.190 108.070 0.237
201909 -0.153 108.329 -0.191
201912 0.076 108.420 0.095
202003 0.292 108.902 0.362
202006 0.365 108.767 0.453
202009 0.105 109.815 0.129
202012 0.418 109.897 0.513
202103 0.836 111.754 1.009
202106 0.067 114.631 0.079
202109 -0.059 115.734 -0.069
202112 0.429 117.630 0.492
202203 0.833 121.301 0.927
202206 0.241 125.017 0.260
202209 -0.231 125.227 -0.249
202212 0.137 125.222 0.148
202303 0.651 127.348 0.690
202306 0.474 128.729 0.497
202309 -0.312 129.860 -0.324
202312 0.481 129.419 0.501
202403 0.877 131.776 0.898
202406 0.009 132.554 0.009
202409 -0.054 133.029 -0.055
202412 0.267 133.157 0.271
202503 1.010 134.927 1.010

Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


News  (NAS:NWS) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Explanation

Compared with the regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF smoothed out the fluctuations of free cash flow during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF should give similar results to regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow.


News Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Related Terms

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News Business Description

Address
1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA, 10036
News Corporation is a diversified media conglomerate with significant presence in the us, the UK, and Australia. Key mastheads include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph. Its 61%-owned REA Group is the dominant property listings business in Australia. In addition, it owns Harper Collins, one of the largest book publishers in the world, and has a sizable us digital property advertising business, Move. An agreement has been reached to sell Foxtel, the Australian pay-TV and streaming provider in which News Corp has a 65% shareholding. The sale to global sports streaming platform, DAZN, is struck at more than 7 times Foxtel's fiscal 2024 EBITDA, equating to enterprise value of AUD 3.4.
Executives
Susan Panuccio officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O NEWS CORPORATION, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
David B Pitofsky officer: General Counsel C/O NEWS CORPORATION, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Keith Rupert Murdoch director, officer: Executive Chairman C/O FOX CORPORATION, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Robert J Thomson director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10003
Lachlan K Murdoch director C/O NEWS AMERICA INCORPORATED, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Kelly Ayotte director C/O NEWS CORPORATION, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Masroor Siddiqui director 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10003
Natalie Bancroft director C/O NEWS AMERICA INCORPORATED, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Jose Maria Aznar director C/O NEWS AMERICA INCORPORATED, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Peter Barnes director C/O NEWS AMERICA INCORPORATED, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Joel Klein director C/O NEWS AMERICA INCORPORATED, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Ana Paula Pessoa director 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10003
James R Murdoch director C/O LUPA SYSTEMS, 363 LAFAYETTE STREET, NEW YORK NY 10022
Kevin Halpin officer: Deputy Chief Financial Officer 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Elaine L. Chao director C/O DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC., ONE DOLE DRIVE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362