Which of These Top 5 Entertainment Stocks have the Strongest Earnings Trends: Disney, CBS, Viacom, Comcast or News Corp?

February 10, 2013

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News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA): Current Price $28.46

Fiscal Year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Revenue ($) in millions	33,000	30,420	32,780	33,400	33,710
Diluted EPS ($)	1.81	-1.29	0.97	1.04	0.47

Annual revenues are flat and EPS is down at this Murdoch-owned media conglomerate.

Next, our CHEAT SHEET investing framework asks us to drill down to the recent quarterly data:

Quarter	Dec. 31, 2011	Mar. 31, 2012	Jun. 30, 2012	Sep. 30, 2012	Dec. 31, 2012
Revenue ($) in millions	8,975	8,402	8,370	8,136	9,425
Diluted EPS ($)	0.42	0.38	-0.61	0.94	1.01

On the quarterly front, there was a turnaround of sorts in September 2012, while the next quarter saw a big jump in revenue and a substantial improvement in EPS. We’ll watch this one…

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