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News Corp (Class A) NWSA

equity

Price History

$8.98$16.22$23.47$30.71
2013-06 · DCA start$15.25

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-51.0%-34.0%-17.0%0.0%
2013-062026-08 · -6.6%

Worst drawdown: 51%, peaking Feb 2014 and bottoming Mar 2020 83 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$15,900
Value today
$27,130
Return
+70.6%
Months invested
159

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $19,827 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +36.8%.

Lump sum instead — $15,900 all at once in Jun 2013: $29,892 (+88.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Sep 2025): $1,300 on $1,200 invested (+8.4%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2013-06: +70.6%

About News Corp (Class A)

News Corporation, doing business as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company was formed on June 28, 2013, as a spin-off of the first News Corporation, whose legal successor was 21st Century Fox, which held its media and entertainment assets. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under communication services and publishing.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.4/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and sector / regulatory (3.0/5).

Scoring well: leverage / financial at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.4/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/521.3
  • Max drawdown from ATH3/551.0
  • Beta vs S&P 5003/51.3
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5130.5m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity1/50.23
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility5/5205
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory3.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure3/5elevated