News (NWS) Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) (2012 - 2026)

News (NWS) has 13 years of Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) data on file, last reported at $554.0 million in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) fell 2.52% year-over-year to $554.0 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $554.0 million (down 2.52% YoY), and the FY2024 full-year result was $571.2 million, down 0.9% from the prior year.
• Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) for Q1 2026 stood at $554.0 million, down from $562.8 million in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) topped out at $589.5 million in Q2 2022 and bottomed at $554.0 million in Q1 2026.
• The 5-year median for Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) is $571.6 million (2023), against an average of $572.6 million.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) retreated 2.72%; it then fell 0.46% in 2025.
• A 5-year view of Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) shows it stood at $576.0 million in 2022, then slipped by 0.71% to $571.9 million in 2023, then retreated by 0.59% to $568.5 million in 2024, then dropped by 1.0% to $562.8 million in 2025, then slipped by 1.56% to $554.0 million in 2026.
• The last three Shares Outstanding (Weighted Average) figures came in at $554.0 million (Q1 2026), $562.8 million (Q4 2025), and $564.9 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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