secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NEWS CORP (NWSA)
CIK:        0001564708
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-08T00:29:29+00:00
Accession:  0001564708-26-000218
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.20
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

News Corp has spent $520M of $1B buyback; added 89,451 shares for $2.64M on Oct 7, 2026
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- Class A: 62,323 shares repurchased Oct 7, 2026 for US$1,783,092.19; program-to-date 12,920,618 shares for US$339,468,502.88.
- Class B: 27,128 shares repurchased Oct 7, 2026 for US$855,278.02; program-to-date 5,991,347 shares for US$177,954,366.66.
- Roughly US$520,061,240 of the US$1 billion 2025 Repurchase Program (authorized July 15, 2025) has been used, leaving about US$480 million available.
- Program price range: Class A US$22.20 (Feb 9, 2026) to US$31.58 (Aug 27, 2026); Class B US$25.49 (Feb 13, 2026) to US$35.69 (Aug 27, 2026).
- Shares on issue: 358,831,617 Class A and 140,881,721 Class B; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acts as buyback broker and no ASX-listed CDIs are being repurchased.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564708/000156470826000218/0001564708-26-000218-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564708/000156470826000218/nws-20261007.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564708-26-000218

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