NWS Dividend Calculator
News Corporation yields 0.63%, below the 2.92% median across US dividend payers. The income from NWS is a smaller part of the story than it would be on a high-yield holding, and the figures below deliberately capture only that part.
NWS paid $0.20 per share over the last twelve months on a semi-annual schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
NWS
News Corporation
0.63%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in NWS pays you
$62.99
per year
- Paid twice a year
- $31.50
- Monthly average
- $5.25
- Shares bought
- 314.96
- Payments a year
- 2
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$629.92
Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.
NWS dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 0.63%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $6.30 | $3.15 | $0.52 |
| $5,000 | $31.50 | $15.75 | $2.62 |
| $10,000 | $62.99 | $31.50 | $5.25 |
| $25,000 | $157.48 | $78.74 | $13.12 |
| $50,000 | $314.96 | $157.48 | $26.25 |
| $100,000 | $629.92 | $314.96 | $52.49 |
NWS with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in NWS, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.
- After 10 years
- $10,649
- After 20 years
- $11,340
- After 30 years
- $12,077
$10,630 taking the income as cash
$11,260 taking the income as cash
$11,890 taking the income as cash
What makes up NWS's 0.63% yield
NWS paid $0.20 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $31.75, which is where the 0.63% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
A below-median yield is not the same as a weak dividend. It commonly means earnings are being retained and reinvested, or that the share price has risen faster than the payment — in the second case the holder's income did not fall, the yield did. Income is one component of the return on NWS and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.
Telecom dividends are funded from cash flows that carry heavy, continuous network capital spending ahead of them. That spending is not discretionary, which is what makes the payout ratio the number to watch in this sector.
When NWS pays, and what that changes
NWS pays semi-annual, which is unusual among US-listed payers and has two consequences the annual figure hides. The "monthly average" column is an average and nothing more — no cash arrives in most months — and the gap between payments means a holder buying between them waits longer for the first one.
Infrequent payments also compound marginally more slowly when reinvested, since each distribution spends longer as cash before it is put back to work. The reinvestment figures above use NWS's real schedule rather than assuming quarterly payments.
Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. NWS's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is NWS's dividend covered by earnings?
NWS's payout ratio of 0.36 means roughly 36% of earnings go to the dividend, leaving the rest retained. A margin that size is what allows a payment to be maintained through a weaker year without being funded from borrowing.
A low ratio is the norm rather than an achievement in this part of the market: the dividend is a secondary use of cash behind reinvestment and buybacks, so most of what is retained is not being held back against a weak year — it is being spent elsewhere.
The figures hold the dividend flat. No multi-year record of consecutive increases is on file for NWS, so treat the projection as arithmetic on today's payment rather than as an expectation about future ones.
NWS dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in NWS pay in dividends?
- At NWS's current yield of 0.63%, $10,000 pays about $62.99 a year — roughly $31.50 per payment, paid semi-annual, or $5.25 a month averaged out.
- What would NWS be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in NWS would grow to about $10,649 after 10 years, against $10,630 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
- How often does NWS pay dividends?
- NWS pays semi-annual — 2 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is NWS's dividend guaranteed?
- No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check NWS's full payment history before relying on any of it.
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News Corporation is a common stock trading at $31.75 per share, paying semi-annual. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.