News Corp (NWS) Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] (2013 - 2026)
News (NWS) posted Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] of 8.19% for fiscal Q4 2026 (quarter ended Jun 30, 2026), up 1.32 percentage points from 6.87% a year earlier and up 1.17 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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News Corp (NWS) Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] (2013 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2026 (ended Jun 30, 2026), News' Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] came in at 8.20%, up 1.35 percentage points from FY2025.
- Annual Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] has increased for three consecutive fiscal years, with a five-year change of +4.53 percentage points (FY2021 to FY2026).
- In prior fiscal years, News' Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] was 6.84% in FY2025 (+2.59 pp), 4.26% in FY2024 (+1.52 pp), 2.73% in FY2023 (-3.29 pp) and 6.03% in FY2022 (+2.36 pp).
- The fiscal Q4 2026 figure stands as the highest quarterly Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] in data going back to fiscal Q1 2014.
- On a year-over-year basis, Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] increased in seven of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +1.81 percentage points.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] in the past five years was fiscal Q1 2022, with a gain of 15.90 percentage points; the weakest was fiscal Q4 2023, with a drop of 3.13 percentage points.
- According to Business Quant data, Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] for the three prior fiscal quarters was 7.02% (Q3 2026), 6.68% (Q2 2026) and 7.18% (Q1 2026).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 8.19% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 7.02% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 6.68% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 7.18% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 6.87% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 7.33% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 6.60% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 5.22% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 4.37% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 3.79% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 3.70% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 2.74% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 2.75% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 2.38% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 2.69% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 4.17% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 5.88% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 5.39% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 5.52% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 5.37% |
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News Corp Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=return-on-capital-employed-%5Broce%5D&ticker=NWS&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "return-on-capital-employed-[roce]", "ticker": "NWS", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=return-on-capital-employed-%5Broce%5D&ticker=NWS&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();