FOXA - Fox Corporation
34.81 -0.38 (-1.09%)
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| Previous Close | 34.27 |
| Open | 34.31 |
| Bid | 34.82 x 3100 |
| Ask | 35.18 x 1800 |
| Day's Range | 34.21 - 35.25 |
| 52 Week Range | 29.69 - 41.95 |
| Volume | 5,690,353 |
| Avg. Volume | 4,477,193 |
| Market Cap | 21.657B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | N/A |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 14.67 |
| EPS (TTM) | 2.40 |
| Earnings Date | Feb. 4, 2020 - Feb. 10, 2020 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 0.46 (1.34%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2019-09-03 |
| 1y Target Est | 38.25 |
- Business Wire
FOX News Digital Delivers Record Month in Multiplatform Views, Surpassing CNN.com for Ninth Consecutive Month
FOX News Digital Network 100 Million Multiplatform Unique Visitors for Eighth Month This Year
- Business Wire
Former 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan Joins FOX Nation for Docuseries
FOX Nation, the on demand subscription-based streaming service soon to celebrate its one year anniversary, will present a four-part docuseries in conjunction with Warm Springs Productions and former CBS News journalist Lara Logan, announced John Finley, Executive Vice President of FOX Nation and Development. Entitled No Agenda with Lara Logan, the docuseries will feature four 90-minute installments each comprised of four episodes that will be released simultaneously on the platform. Throughout the series, Logan will report from the front lines of America’s political and ideological war zones and dive into a number of hot-button issues with on-the-ground coverage and expert interviews.
- Yahoo Finance
5 secrets about Disney revealed in Bob Iger's book
Bob Iger’s new book is packaged like a standard businessperson success story, but it contains a lot of surprisingly candid reflections, and quite a few news nuggets.
- Bloomberg
Everyone Gets Paid in CBS-Viacom Except Shareholders
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Is it just me, or does the $100 million “severance” being paid to Joe Ianniello, the acting chief executive officer of CBS Corp., stink to high heaven? For starters, you can make a pretty compelling Elizabeth Warren-esque argument that handing a $100 million “severance” to someone who is not, in fact, leaving the company is exactly why income inequality has become such a hot-button issue.But let’s be old school about this. Let’s focus on the shareholders and how this is their money that’s being handed to Ianniello. It is also an unpleasant reminder of how the father-daughter combo of Sumner and Shari Redstone seemingly can’t resist throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at executives who have not done much for their stockholders.The Redstones, of course, control CBS through their privately held film exhibition company, National Amusements Inc. They also control Viacom Inc., which Sumner Redstone bought for $3.4 billion in 1987. (Viacom acquired CBS in 1999.) Until 2016, Sumner Redstone, now 96, was the executive chairman of both companies, though he had largely disappeared from public view two years earlier amid allegations that he was in serious decline. Shari Redstone, 65, is the vice chairman of both companies.In 2003, when CBS was still part of Viacom — and Sumner Redstone was still in charge — Les Moonves became its CEO, a position he retained when CBS was spun off in late 2005. Between 2007 and 2018, when Moonves was fired for sexual improprieties, the CBS board, led by the Redstones, paid him just shy of $700 million, according to figures compiled by Bloomberg. That’s an average of $63.6 million a year.I happen to think that $63 million a year is an absurd amount to pay a manager to run a company. But even if you accept that entertainment companies pay their executives insane amounts — Discovery Inc. paid its CEO, David Zaslav $129.4 million last year, for crying out loud — it is reasonable to assume that such an outsized paycheck would be justified by outsized performance.Not so. During the Moonves era at CBS, the S&P 500 Index returned an average of 9% a year. CBS returned 8.7% a year. In other words, the Redstones and the CBS board paid hundreds of millions of dollars of its shareholders’ money to a man who could barely keep pace with an index fund. (By comparison, the Walt Disney Co. returned 14.6%, and 21st Century Fox returned 10.5%.)The situation at Viacom is even worse. Remember Philippe Dauman, the former CEO whom Sumner Redstone once called “the wisest man I know”? He ran Viacom for a decade, from 2006 to 2016. According to Equilar, a company that compiles executive compensation figures, his compensation during those 10 years was nearly $500 million — while the stock gained a paltry 2.7% a year on average. You may recall that Dauman wound up in a nasty court fight with the Redstones in 2016, trying to keep his job by contending that Sumner Redstone was no longer mentally competent to make key business decisions. After winning that battle, the Redstones still handed Dauman a parting gift as they pushed him out the door: a $75 million severance package.Which brings us back to Ianniello. Although he has been acting CEO only since Moonves departed late last year, Ianniello has also been the recipient of the Redstones’ largesse: Between 2016 and 2018, as the company’s chief operating officer, his compensation averaged $27 million a year, according to Bloomberg. The stock? It dropped from the low 70s to the mid-40s during those three years. This is what’s known as “pay for pulse.”So why did Shari Redstone feel the need to hand Ianniello an additional $100 million? The reasons are twofold. First, Redstone is recombining Viacom and CBS. She doesn’t want Ianniello to leave — at least not right away — but she also isn’t going to make him the top dog. Second, for legal reasons, she can’t ramrod this deal through by herself, even though she is the controlling shareholder. She needs the CBS board and senior management to support the bid. “You need Joe to get the merger done,” Robin Ferracone, the CEO of executive compensation consulting firm Farient Advisors, told Bloomberg. “So you need to make him indifferent to whether he’s going to lose his job or not.”Yes, $100 million is certainly likely to buy a whole lot of indifference. Then again, $10 million probably could have achieved the same result. And in any case, if Shari Redstone needs $100 million to, er, persuade one of her executives to support her merger plan, maybe that suggests the merger’s success is not exactly a slam dunk.I have a hard time seeing how combining two underperforming media companies with a hodgepodge of assets will create a worthy competitor to powerhouses such as Disney, which rolled out its Disney+ streaming service on Tuesday morning, and AT&T, which next year will bundle its media assets into another streaming entrant, HBO Max. But Shari Redstone wants to combine Viacom and CBS, and with the help of that $100 million, that’s what’s going to happen. When the companies are merged, which is expected to take place next month, the CEO of the combined entity will be Bob Bakish, who is Viacom’s CEO.Since he took over Viacom, Bakish’s compensation has been surprisingly normal, at least by modern CEO standards. According to company filings, he received about $20 million a year in total pay in 2017 and 2018.But fear not. Once the deal is done, Bakish’s pay is set to jump to more than $30 million. I predict that he’ll be in Moonves/Dauman territory in no time. After all, overpaying executives is the Redstone way.To contact the author of this story: Joe Nocera at jnocera3@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Daniel Niemi at dniemi1@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Joe Nocera is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business. He has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. His latest project is the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast "The Shrink Next Door."For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Yahoo Finance
'The true religion of America': Why one TV mogul is going all in on sports
As streaming has turned the television industry on its head, one media mogul went against the trend this year. He revealed the advice from News Corp. Founder Rupert Murdoch by way of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison that led him to do it.
- Zacks
Disney (DIS) Eases Investors' Minds in Q4
The big story regarding Disney has to do with its massive streaming service overhaul, anchored by the coming Disney+ network.
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TEGNA (TGNA) Q3 Earnings Match Expectations, Revenues Up Y/Y
TEGNA's (TGNA) third-quarter 2019 results reflect growth in advertising and marketing services, and subscription revenues.
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Fox Corp (FOXA) Q1 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates, Up Y/Y
Fox's (FOXA) first-quarter fiscal 2020 results reflect solid affiliate fee revenues and other revenues.
- Business Wire
FOX News Channel Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Veterans Day With Extensive Special Programming on November 11th
Network to Host First-Ever Small Business Fair Spotlighting Veteran-Owned and Operated Businesses
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Square, Qualcomm, Roku earnings — What to know in markets Wednesday
Square, Qualcomm and Roku will report quarterly results in a busy day of earnings Wednesday.
- Business Wire
Nexstar Media Group Enters Into De-Leveraging Buy/Sell Agreements With Fox Television Stations
(November 5, 2019) – Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NXST) (the “Company”) announced today that it entered into purchase and sale agreements with Fox Television Stations, LLC, a subsidiary of Fox Corporation (Nasdaq: FOXA, FOX) (“FOX”), whereby Nexstar will purchase from FOX, the Charlotte FOX Affiliate WJZY and MyNetworkTV Affiliate WMYT for approximately $45 million in cash, and will divest to FOX the Seattle FOX Affiliate KCPQ and MyNetworkTV Affiliate KZJO and the Milwaukee FOX Affiliate WITI for approximately $350 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments.
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Disney (DIS) to Report Q4 Earnings: What's in the Cards?
Disney's (DIS) fourth-quarter fiscal 2019 results are expected to reflect robust collection of The Lion King movie amid higher DTC losses.
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Discovery (DISCA) to Report Q3 Earnings: What's in Store?
Discovery's (DISCA) third-quarter 2019 results are expected to benefit from a solid content portfolio and strong domestic advertising.
- Zacks
Media Stock Earnings Lineup for Nov 6: FOXA, ROKU, LBTYA
Here we take a sneak peek into quarterly earnings expectations of three media stocks scheduled to report on Nov 6.
- Zacks
Should You Buy Fox (FOXA) Ahead of Earnings?
Fox (FOXA) is seeing favorable earnings estimate revision activity and has a positive Zacks Earnings ESP heading into earnings season.
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ROKU to Report Q3 Earnings: Factors Influencing Results
Roku's (ROKU) third-quarter 2019 results are likely to benefit from the popularity of The Roku Channel and its ability to enhance user experience.
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Fox Corp (FOXA) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in Store?
Fox's (FOXA) first-quarter fiscal 2020 results are likely to reflect portfolio strength across entertainment, sports and news content.
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What's in Store for DISH Network (DISH) This Earnings Season?
DISH Network's (DISH) third-quarter 2019 results are likely to reflect persistent loss of subscribers due to stiff competition and cord-cutting in the Pay-TV industry.
- Yahoo Finance
TV mogul on partnership with Sinclair Broadcast Group: 'We can put politics aside'
An international political uproar recently placed Apple and the National Basketball Association under intense scrutiny—but one television mogul says there remains a strict divide between business and politics.
- Business Wire
FOX News Channel Elevates Contributor Lawrence Jones to New Expanded Role
FOX News Channel (FNC) has elevated network contributor Lawrence Jones to a regular substitute host and co-host role, effective immediately. In this capacity, Jones will make appearances on a range of programs, including The Five (weekdays at 5PM/ET) and Outnumbered (weekdays at 12PM/ET). In commenting on the announcement, Jones stated, “I am thrilled to continue my time at FOX News and FOX Nation, expanding my role into more regular appearances across all platforms.
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4 Media Stocks Set to Beat Estimates This Earnings Season
Here we pick four media stocks that are likely to deliver positive earnings surprises this reporting cycle.
- Business Wire
TEGNA and FOX Renew Affiliation Agreement
TEGNA Inc. and Fox Corporation today announced a comprehensive, multi-year deal that renews station affiliation agreements for six TEGNA markets, including three stations acquired last month from Nexstar Media Group.
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Will China Operations Drive MGM Resorts' (MGM) Q3 Earnings?
MGM Resorts' (MGM) top line in third-quarter 2019 is likely to get reflected in robust performance of both China and domestic operations.
- Business Wire
Kacie McDonnell Joins FOX Nation
FOX Nation, the on demand subscription-based streaming service, has signed Kacie McDonnell as a lifestyle and sports host, announced John Finley, Executive Vice President of the platform.
