News Corp (NWSA) Stock Concentration Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · NWSAQuantify News Corp concentration risk. Drawdown impact at 30 / 50 / 70%, with the tax-aware trade-off between selling down and hedging.
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Most fee-only advisors target ≤10% in any single name. You're at 67%.
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Most sensitive to: Expected market return (±10% on this input swings best-plan wealth by ±$190,508).
Cost of fully de-concentrating
All three plans sell to 0% (no hedge).Sensitivity. If your expected position return drops below 19.6%/yr, lump-sum (sell everything today) beats every spread plan above.
Have multiple RSU vest lots? The RSU Lot Order Calculator picks which lots to sell first, and on which dates, to divest at the lowest computed tax.
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Toggle below — chart updates live. Sell buttons show the slice.Tech / Software single names hit a 50%+ peak-to-trough drawdown in roughly 1 of every 5 rolling 3-year windows over 2014–2024. Even mega-caps aren’t exempt.
Tax brackets: 2026 · Estimates only — not financial advice.
Estate note. Heirs receive a stepped-up basis at death (§1014), eliminating built-in gain on inherited shares. Older holders who plan to bequeath rather than sell may rationally never de-concentrate.
You sized one position's risk. The beta integrates hedging, sell-down, and tax timing into one optimized plan.
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About News Corp
News Corp (NWSA) is a public Consumer Internet company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in New York, NY.
Last close: $29.39 per share (as of 2026-08-18).
Equity grants at News Corp typically include restricted stock units (RSUs).
News Corporation, doing business as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company was formed on June 28, 2013, as a spin-off of the first News Corporation, whose legal successor was 21st Century Fox, which held its media and entertainment assets. Operating across digital real estate information, news media, book publishing, and cable television, News Corp's notable assets include: Dow Jones & Company, which is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal; News UK, publisher of The Sun and The Times; News Corp Australia; REA Group, operator of realestate.com.au and realtor.com; and book publisher HarperCollins.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The current company was created in 2013 when Rupert Murdoch separated publishing from entertainment, leaving newspapers, book publishing, and digital real-estate listings under one holding structure. The mix is unusual: The Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins sit alongside REA Group and Realtor.com, and the property portals generate a disproportionate share of profit relative to their share of revenue. Subscription growth at Dow Jones has partly offset structural decline in print advertising. Payments from technology platforms for news content have become a negotiated revenue line. Headquarters are in New York.
Sources: sec.gov · en.wikipedia.org
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If a meaningful share of your net worth sits in NWSA, concentration risk is the question. This calculator quantifies drawdown impact at 30 / 50 / 70%, and the trade-off between selling down (tax cost now) versus hedging (option premium drag), auto-filled with NWSA's option-implied volatility.
Example: 5,000 NWSA shares at $29.39 is a $146,950 position. A 30% drawdown costs $44,085; a 50% drawdown costs $73,475; a 70% drawdown costs $102,865. The calculator quantifies the trade-off between selling down (immediate capital-gains tax) and hedging (option premium drag) using NWSA's option-implied volatility and your cost basis.
All News Corp tools → · Use the generic Stock Concentration Calculator for any company. Diversifying multiple RSU lots? See the lot-by-lot sell order →
News Corp equity questions
- How much NWSA stock is too much?
- There is no single threshold, but the larger the share of your net worth in one stock, the more a single bad year can set back your plans. The calculator above quantifies the drawdown impact at 30, 50, and 70 percent for your NWSA position and weighs selling down (which triggers capital-gains tax now) against hedging (which costs option premium).
- Does News Corp grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at News Corp typically takes the form of restricted stock units (RSUs). Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
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