Media coverage about Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOX) has been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Twenty-First Century Fox earned a coverage optimism score of 0.17 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news articles about the company an impact score of 47.4913576617303 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company’s share price in the immediate future.
Here are some of the news articles that may have effected Accern’s rankings:
- Media: Hicks named interim WH communications chief (finance.yahoo.com)
- Alt Right Google Protest Marches Cancelled Because of “Alt Left Terrorist Threats” (finance.yahoo.com)
- Fox News is poised for another big primetime shake-up after its latest sexual-harassment scandal (finance.yahoo.com)
- Why Fox Stock Fell after Its Fiscal 4Q17 Results (finance.yahoo.com)
- Media landscape will be 'tale of two cities': Gabelli & C… (finance.yahoo.com)
FOX has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. BidaskClub downgraded Twenty-First Century Fox from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 10th. TheStreet downgraded Twenty-First Century Fox from a “b” rating to a “c+” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 24th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded Twenty-First Century Fox from a “sell” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $31.00 price target for the company in a research report on Tuesday, June 13th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the company. The company has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $33.00.
Shares of Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOX) traded down 2.43% during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $26.89. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,569,397 shares. The company has a market cap of $49.77 billion, a PE ratio of 16.95 and a beta of 1.19. Twenty-First Century Fox has a 12 month low of $23.88 and a 12 month high of $31.94. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $27.87 and its 200-day moving average price is $28.88.
Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOX) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 9th. The company reported $0.36 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.37 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $6.75 billion for the quarter. Twenty-First Century Fox had a net margin of 10.36% and a return on equity of 22.47%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.45 EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Twenty-First Century Fox will post $2.05 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, October 18th. Investors of record on Wednesday, September 13th will be issued a $0.18 dividend. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.68%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 12th. Twenty-First Century Fox’s payout ratio is 22.64%.
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Twenty-First Century Fox Company Profile
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc is a media and entertainment company. The Company’s segments include Cable Network Programming; Television; Filmed Entertainment, and Other, Corporate and Eliminations. The Cable Network Programming segment produces and licenses news, business news, sports, general entertainment, factual entertainment and movie programming for distribution.
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