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Companies · NWSA · Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing · Other events · Aug 26, 2026

News Corp buys another $0.8M of stock, but the buyback remains routine

Buyback ongoingpriced in
$1B authorization; ~$446.1M spent to date
NEWS CORP (NWSA) — what happened, in plain English, and what it means versus what the market expected.

This is a routine progress update, not a fresh capital-allocation announcement. The filing reports another 22,113 shares repurchased on August 26, 2026 for $776,920.35, but the underlying program was authorized on July 15, 2025. 〔0〕

The company has used roughly 45% of the authorization. Cumulative purchases now total approximately $446.1 million against the $1 billion ceiling, leaving about $553.9 million of potential capacity. 〔1〕

The daily activity is too small to materially reset expectations. The latest purchase represents less than 0.1% of the authorization, and the filing gives no change to the program size, pace, conditions, or shareholder-approval requirements. No ASX-listed CDIs will be repurchased. 〔2〕

Net read: confirmation rather than incremental news. The buyback remains an ongoing source of share-count support, but this daily notification is fully in line with the already-known program and carries no clean beat-or-miss benchmark.

Read the original 8-K on SEC EDGAR ↗
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