secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NEWS CORP (NWSA)
CIK:        0001564708
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-08T23:53:56+00:00
Accession:  0001564708-26-000219
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

News Corp buyback reaches $522.7M of $1B program; 89,380 shares bought Oct 8 for $2.66M
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- Class A (NWSA): 62,323 shares repurchased Oct 8 for US$1,799,009.49; program-to-date 12,982,941 shares for US$341,251,595.07.
- Class B (NWS): 27,057 shares repurchased Oct 8 for US$858,312.98; program-to-date 6,018,475 shares for US$178,809,644.68.
- Total spent under the 2025 Repurchase Program (authorized July 15, 2025, up to US$1B) is approximately US$522,718,562.
- Class A prices paid ranged US$22.20 (Feb 9, 2026) to US$31.58 (Aug 27, 2026); Class B US$25.49 to US$35.69; broker is Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC.
- Shares on issue: 358,831,617 Class A and 140,881,721 Class B; no ASX-listed CDIs will be repurchased.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564708/000156470826000219/0001564708-26-000219-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564708/000156470826000219/nws-20261008.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564708-26-000219

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