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Item 7A — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
News Corporation · 10-K · FY 2026 · Period ended Jun 30, 2026
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The Company has exposure to different types of market risk including changes in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and credit.
When deemed appropriate, the Company uses derivative financial instruments such as interest rate swaps to hedge certain risk exposures. The primary market risk managed by the Company through the use of derivative instruments relates to interest rate risk arising from floating rate News Corporation borrowings.
The Company neither holds nor issues financial instruments for trading purposes.
The following sections provide quantitative information on the Company’s exposure to foreign currency exchange rate risk, interest rate risk and other relevant market risks. The Company makes use of sensitivity analyses that are inherently limited in estimating actual losses in fair value that can occur from changes in market conditions.
Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk
The Company conducts operations in three principal currencies: the U.S. dollar; the Australian dollar; and the British pound sterling. These currencies operate primarily as the functional currency for the Company’s U.S., Australian and U.K. operations, respectively. Cash is managed centrally within each of the three regions with working capital requirements generally met from existing liquid funds. To the extent such funds are not sufficient to meet working capital requirements, funding in the appropriate local currencies is made available from intercompany capital. The Company does not hedge its investments in the net assets of its Australian and U.K. operations.
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Because of fluctuations in exchange rates, the Company is subject to currency translation risk on the results of its operations. Foreign currency translation risk is the risk that exchange rate gains or losses arise from translating foreign entities’ statements of operations and balance sheets from their functional currency to the Company’s reporting currency (the U.S. dollar) for consolidation purposes. The Company does not hedge translation risk because it generally generates positive cash flows from its international operations that are typically reinvested locally. Exchange rates with the most significant impact to translation include the U.S. dollar/Australian dollar and U.S. dollar/British pound sterling. As exchange rates fluctuate, translation of its statements of operations into U.S. dollars affects the comparability of revenues and expenses between years.
The table below details the percentage of revenues and expenses by the three principal currencies for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2026 and 2025:
U.S. Dollars Australian Dollars British Pound Sterling
Fiscal year ended June 30, 2026
Revenues 50 % 28 % 17 %
Operating and Selling, general and administrative expenses 52 % 23 % 18 %
Fiscal year ended June 30, 2025
Revenues 50 % 27 % 17 %
Operating and Selling, general and administrative expenses 52 % 23 % 18 %
Based on the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, a one cent change in each of the U.S. dollar/Australian dollar and the U.S. dollar/British pound sterling exchange rates would have impacted revenues by approximately $37 million and $11 million, respectively, for each currency on an annual basis, and would have impacted Total Segment EBITDA by approximately $12 million and $2 million, respectively, on an annual basis.
Interest Rate Risk
The Company’s current financing arrangements and facilities include $1,500 million of outstanding fixed-rate debt and $500 million of outstanding variable-rate bank facilities, before adjustments for unamortized discount and debt issuance costs (See Note 9—Borrowings in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements). Fixed and variable-rate debts are impacted differently by changes in interest rates. A change in the market interest rate or yield will only impact the fair market value of fixed-rate debt, while a change in the market interest rate or yield will impact interest expense, as well as the amount of cash required to service variable-rate debt. News Corporation has entered into an interest rate swap cash flow hedge to fix the floating rate interest component of a portion of its 2026 Term A Loans. As of June 30, 2026, the notional amount of interest rate swap contracts outstanding was approximately $450 million for News Corporation borrowings. Refer to the table below for further details of the sensitivity of the Company’s financial instruments which are subject to interest rate risk. Refer to Note 11—Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail.
Derivatives and Hedging
As noted above, News Corporation has entered into an interest rate swap cash flow hedge to fix the floating rate interest component of a portion of its 2026 Term A Loans. The derivative instruments in place may create volatility during the fiscal year as they are marked-to-market according to accounting rules which may result in revaluation gains or losses in different periods from when the impacts on the underlying transactions are realized.
The table below provides further details of the sensitivity of the Company’s derivative financial instruments which are subject to interest rate risk as of June 30, 2026:
Notional Value Fair Value Sensitivity from Adverse 10% Change in Interest Rates
(in millions)
Interest rate derivatives $ 450 $ 6 $ —
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Credit Risk
Cash and cash equivalents are maintained with multiple financial institutions. Deposits held with banks may exceed the amount of insurance provided on such deposits. Generally, these deposits may be redeemed upon demand and are maintained with financial institutions of reputable credit and, therefore, bear minimal credit risk.
The Company’s receivables did not represent significant concentrations of credit risk as of June 30, 2026 or June 30, 2025 due to the wide variety of customers, markets and geographic areas to which the Company’s products and services are sold.
The Company monitors its positions with, and the credit quality of, the financial institutions which are counterparties to its financial instruments. The Company is exposed to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the counterparties to the agreements. As of June 30, 2026, the Company did not anticipate nonperformance by any of the counterparties.
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