secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NEWS CORP (NWSA)
CIK:        0001564708
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-02T00:09:23+00:00
Accession:  0001564708-26-000214
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

News Corp buyback hits ~US$509M of US$1B program; 89,451 shares repurchased Oct 1, 2026
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- Class A cumulative buybacks: 12,671,326 shares on issue-basis purchases for US$332,336,477; 62,323 shares bought Oct 1, 2026 for US$1,769,487 at $28.20-$28.72.
- Class B cumulative buybacks: 5,882,835 shares for US$174,525,876; 27,128 shares bought Oct 1, 2026 for US$849,394 at $31.08-$31.66.
- Total purchased under the 2025 Repurchase Program to date: approximately US$509,481,234 of the US$1 billion authorized on July 15, 2025.
- Shares on issue: 359,143,232 Class A (NWSA) and 141,017,361 Class B (NWS); Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC is the buyback broker.
- Stated reason for the repurchase program is 'to enhance shareholder value'; no ASX-listed CDIs will be repurchased.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564708/000156470826000214/0001564708-26-000214-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564708/000156470826000214/nws-20261001.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564708-26-000214

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