NWS - News Corporation
News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes authoritative and engaging content, and other products and services for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates in six segments: Digital Real Estate Services, Subscription Video Services, Dow Jones, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other. The company distributes content and data products, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and OPIS through various media channels, such as newspapers, newswires, websites, mobile apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video, and podcasts.
As of May 15, 2026: spot at $29.63, ATM IV 44.8%, max pain $15.00, net GEX $1.9K.
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Market Cap
- $16.79B
- P/E Ratio
- 40.41
- Beta
- 0.90
- 52-Week Range
- 25.49-35.58
- Dividend Yield
- $0.20
- CEO
- Robert J. Thomson
- Employees
- 23,900
- IPO Date
- Jun 19, 2013
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
What NWS Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 32.6% sits near the 1-year median, where strategy choice depends on directional conviction and the event calendar rather than vol regime alone; positive net gamma exposure ($1.9K) means dealers hedge against trend, damping realized volatility and biasing price toward heavy-OI strikes; the 25-delta skew (0.138) prices calls richer than puts, often reflecting upside speculation or squeeze risk.
What This Page Covers
The NWS overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked NWS overview questions
- What is NWS?
- NWS is the ticker symbol for News Corporation, a listed security. News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes authoritative and engaging content, and other products and services for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates in six segments: Digital Real Estate Services, Subscription Video Services, Dow Jones, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other. Listed on NASDAQ. NWS is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the NWS options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 15, 2026, the NWS options snapshot shows spot at $29.63, ATM IV 44.8%, IV rank 32.6%, max pain $15.00, net GEX $1.9K, expected move 12.84%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are NWS's key statistics?
- News Corporation (NWS) carries a market capitalization of $16.79B, trailing P/E ratio of 40.41, beta of 0.90 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 25.49-35.58. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does NWS belong to?
- News Corporation operates in the Communication Services sector, in the Entertainment industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare NWS's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the NWS data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 15, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).