News Corp. Class A Common Stock (NWSA) scored on five pillars from its reported financial statements, and ranked against 80 Communication Services companies.
News Corp. Class A Common Stock (NWSA) scores 3.7 out of 10 as of , computed from its reported financial statements. That reads as low quality. The reading rests on predictability, and growth is what holds it back.
2 pillars, solvency and efficiency, are unscored because the filings behind them carry too little to judge. Each is shown as a dash rather than a zero, and the overall score is the weighted average of what could be scored.
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The Quality Score for NWSA stands at 3.7 out of 10 as of October 19, 2026, which puts News Corp. Class A Common Stock in the low quality band. Scores this low usually reflect thin margins, a stretched balance sheet or an erratic record, and the pillars below show which. It rolls News Corp. Class A Common Stock’s profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability into one number, each judged against the norms of its sector.
Ranked with the 80 Communication Services companies Lemma publishes, the score sits at the 33rd percentile, just below the middle of the group. For reference, the middle of the group scores 4.6 and a company needs 6.0 to reach its top quarter, which leaves News Corp. Class A Common Stock below the median.
Profitability scores 3.7 out of 10, which reads as weak. The median across 77 Communication Services companies is 3.7, so News Corp. Class A Common Stock is in line with its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 49th percentile. Weak profitability means the business converts less of its sales and capital into profit than its peers, which can come from thin pricing power, high costs or a temporary squeeze.
Solvency has no score for News Corp. Class A Common Stock. Fewer than half of the pillar’s metric weight could be computed from the reported statements, so it is drawn as a dash and left out of the overall rather than counted as a zero. For context, the median solvency score across 62 Communication Services companies is 4.8. Without it the overall says nothing about how comfortably the company carries its debt.
Growth scores 2.5 out of 10, which reads as weak. The median across 64 Communication Services companies is 4.7, so News Corp. Class A Common Stock is well below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 23rd percentile. A low growth score is common for large, established companies and is not a verdict on quality on its own, but it limits how the business can compound.
Efficiency has no score for News Corp. Class A Common Stock. Fewer than half of the pillar’s metric weight could be computed from the reported statements, so it is drawn as a dash and left out of the overall rather than counted as a zero. For context, the median efficiency score across 76 Communication Services companies is 6.1. Without it the overall cannot say how well reported profit turns into cash.
On predictability, News Corp. Class A Common Stock scores 5.0, an average reading. Its peers have a median of 4.5 across 80 Communication Services companies, which places it above them, at the 58th percentile. Consistency near the median is typical, and it is worth checking whether the swings came from the business itself or from one-off items.
Predictability at 5.0 is News Corp. Class A Common Stock’s best pillar and growth at 2.5 its weakest. The 2.5 point gap between them is worth keeping in mind when reading the overall. Leading with predictability suits a steady compounder, even if the other pillars are less striking. Slow growth limits how fast the business can compound, even when everything else is in order.
Of everything that could lift News Corp. Class A Common Stock’s score, growth matters most. Bringing it up to the 4.7 median of Communication Services companies would take the overall from 3.7 to roughly 4.4. With two pillars unscored, the overall rests on 65 of the 100 weight points, spread across the three pillars that could be measured (the full set is profitability 25, solvency 20, growth 20, efficiency 15, predictability 20).
For a fair comparison, start with companies of a similar size: the Communication Services companies below are nearest to News Corp. Class A Common Stock by market value, each scored on the same pillars.
How much profit the company generates from its capital and sales.
The company’s ability to service debt and meet its obligations.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are compounding.
How well assets and earnings convert into cash and output.
How stable and consistent results have been over time.
Each metric is scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks, where higher is better. Metrics roll up into five pillars, and the pillars combine into the overall score using the weights shown. Sector-sensitive metrics are judged relative to peers in the same sector.
This score is a systematic, backward-looking read of reported fundamentals. It does not judge valuation, management quality, competitive moat, or future prospects, and can be distorted by one-off items or unusual accounting. Treat it as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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On this reading News Corp. Class A Common Stock scores 3.7 out of 10, which reads as low quality. Its strongest pillar is predictability, its weakest is growth. Quality is not the same as a good investment: the score says nothing about the price you would pay.
News Corp. Class A Common Stock ranks at the 33rd percentile of the 80 Communication Services companies Lemma publishes a score for. The median there is 4.6 and the top quarter starts at 6.0, against News Corp. Class A Common Stock’s 3.7.
Five pillars, each scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks and then weighted into one overall reading: profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability. Everything comes from reported financials, and nothing comes from price, sentiment or forecasts.
This page last changed on October 19, 2026. The score moves with the financial statements, so the page changes when a new filing moves the reading rather than on a schedule. Live figures for NWSA are in the app.
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