The profit of News Corp increases by 28%, driven by Dow Jones, digital real estate growth
News Corporation beat Wall Street’s expectations for its fourth quarter of its 2025 financial year, with a 28% increase in profits and a 1% increase in revenues led by higher traffic and subscription income in the Dow Jones segment and higher Australian residential income at REA Group. The gains were partly offset by income below the information media and book publication segments.
In addition to the results, the CEO of News Corp., Robert Thomson, pleaded to “cherish the value of intellectual property” because the age of artificial intelligence has threatened with protections.
“Many are made of competition with China, but the advantage of America is ingenuity and creativity, not bits and bytes, not watts but with undermining this comparative advantage by eliminating intellectual property rights, is vandalizing our virtuosity.” He said. “Even the President of the United States is not immune to this blatant flight. The president’s books always report healthy sales, but are consumed by IA engines that take advantage of his thoughts by cannibalizing his concepts, thus undergoing future sales of his books. Suddenly, the art of agreement has become the art of theft. ”
Here are the quarterly results:
Net income: $ 86 million, up 28%, compared to $ 67 million the previous year.
Income: $ 2.11 billion, up 1% from one year to the next, compared to $ 2.09 billion expected by analysts interviewed by Yahoo Finance.
Profit by action: 9 cents per share on a diluted basis. On an adjusted basis, the EPS was 19 cents, against 18 cents per share expected by the analysts interviewed by Yahoo Finance.
The latest quarterly results arise while the Wall Street Journal faces a defamation trial of $ 10 billion from Donald Trump about the report of the president with Jeffrey Epstein. The WSJ previously declared that he “would defend himself vigorously” himself in court. The parties would have agreed to delay the deposition of the owner Rupert Murdoch in the case to give News Corp. A chance to have your request for rejection heard.
For his full year for the year 2025, News. Corp has seen income increase by 2% to 8.45 billion dollars, driven by the growth of its digital real estate services, Dow Jones and books of books, while profit increased by $ 648 million.
Dow Jones obtained record income for the full year of $ 2.33 billion, driven by higher income of professional information, including 15% growth in Risk & Compliance, 11% at Dow Jones Energy and higher digital traffic income posted record income for the high year of $ 1.25 billion, an increase of 12% compared to the year Previous, driven by a solid year of Australian residential performance.
In July, News Corp. Authorized a new equity buyback program of $ 1 billion in more than $ 300 million from a previous $ 1 billion program authorized four years ago.
“We expect to start carrying out buybacks at an accelerated rate shortly after the publication of these results,” added Thomson. “This total and much faster and much faster tempo highlights our belief in the financial force of the company.”
More to come …
