Growth Metrics

News (NWSA) Tax Rate (2016 - 2026)

News filings provide 14 years of Tax Rate readings, the most recent being 34.06% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Tax Rate rose 522.0% to 34.06% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 32.13%, a 140.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 29.79%, down 542.0% from a year prior.
  • Tax Rate hit 34.06% in Q4 2025 for News, up from 29.25% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 735.0% in Q2 2022 to a low of 21.01% in Q3 2021.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 33.7% (2023), compared with a mean of 71.7%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: soared 64902bps in 2022 and later plummeted -66227bps in 2023.
  • News' Tax Rate stood at 27.42% in 2021, then soared by 44bps to 39.35% in 2022, then fell by -15bps to 33.33% in 2023, then dropped by -13bps to 28.84% in 2024, then grew by 18bps to 34.06% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 34.06% (Q4 2025), 29.25% (Q3 2025), and 34.85% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.