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Stockholders' Equity
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Stock Repurchase Program
The Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) previously authorized a stock repurchase program under which the Company can repurchase $7 billion of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), and Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class B Common Stock” and, together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”). In August 2025, the Board authorized incremental stock repurchases of an additional $5 billion of Common Stock. With this increase, the Company’s total stock repurchase authorization is now $12 billion. The program has no time limit and may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time.
Repurchased shares are retired and reduce the number of shares issued and outstanding. The Company allocates the amount of the repurchase price over par value between additional paid-in capital and retained earnings.
In October 2025, the Company entered into an accelerated share repurchase (“ASR”) agreement in which the Company paid a third-party financial institution $700 million and $800 million and received initial deliveries of approximately 8.5 million and 10.9 million shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, respectively, representing 80% of the value of such payments in shares, calculated at a price of $65.51 and $58.83 per share, which were the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”) closing share prices of the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, respectively, on October 30, 2025. Upon final settlement of the ASR, the Company may receive final deliveries of additional shares of such Common Stock. The number of shares, if any, to be received upon final settlement will be determined using the volume-weighted average market price of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq during the term of the ASR agreement less a discount, less the initial deliveries. The Company accounted for the ASR agreement as two separate transactions. The initial deliveries of Common Stock were accounted for as a treasury stock transaction recorded on the acquisition date. The final settlements of Common Stock are accounted for as a forward contract indexed to the Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, as applicable, and qualified as an equity transaction. The Company anticipates completing the transaction during the second half of fiscal 2026.
Inclusive of the ASR agreement, the Company repurchased approximately 25 million shares of Common Stock for approximately $1.8 billion during the six months ended December 31, 2025.
As of December 31, 2025, the Company’s remaining stock repurchase authorization was approximately $3.6 billion.
Stockholders Agreement
On September 8, 2025, the Company entered into a new stockholders agreement (the “New Stockholders Agreement”) with LGC Holdco, LLC (“LGC Holdco”) and certain Murdoch family trusts (collectively, the “LGC Family Trusts”). In connection with this, the stockholders agreement between the Company and the Murdoch Family Trust (See Note 11—Stockholders’ Equity in the 2025 Form 10-K) was terminated. The New Stockholders Agreement limits the LGC Family Trusts and LGC Holdco from owning, collectively with certain Murdoch family members (the “Murdoch Individuals”), more than 44% of the outstanding voting power of the shares of Class B Common Stock and requires the LGC Family Trusts and LGC Holdco to forfeit votes to the extent necessary to ensure that the Murdoch Individuals, the LGC Family Trusts and LGC Holdco collectively do not exceed 44% of the outstanding voting power of the shares of Class B Common Stock, except where a Murdoch Individual votes their own shares differently from the others on any matter. In addition, the New Stockholders Agreement provides the Company with a right of first refusal with respect to any underwritten public offering of the shares of Class B Common Stock held by the LGC Family Trusts or LGC Holdco to anyone
other than the Murdoch Individuals and their affiliates, subject to certain exceptions, and provides the LGC Family Trusts and LGC Holdco with certain customary registration rights.
Dividends
The following table summarizes the dividends declared per share on both the Company’s Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock:
For the three months ended December 31,
For the six months ended December 31,
2025202420252024
Cash dividend per share$— $— $0.28 $0.27 
Subsequent to December 31, 2025, the Company declared a semi-annual dividend of $0.28 per share on both the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock. The dividend declared is payable on March 25, 2026 with a record date for determining dividend entitlements of March 4, 2026.