What the executives and directors of News Corp (Class B) actually did with their own shares, decoded from three years of SEC Form 4 filings.
The tape: three years of insider trades
Every marker sits at the exact price reported on the Form 4. The line is the monthly median of all prices insiders reported, so the chart needs no market feed; the gray strip is routine flow (vestings, tax withholding, gifts) that headlines love to miscount as selling.
Where the shares went, last 12 months
Every Form 4 movement decomposed: what flowed in (grants, vested equity, purchases) and what flowed out (tax withholding, plan sales, discretionary sales, gifts). Counted in shares, because grants carry no price.
Skin in the game
Directly held shares as reported after each trade, indexed to 100 five years back. Direct holdings only: trust and family-entity positions are per-entity in the filings and do not sum honestly, so this chart refuses to guess. The steps are the trades.
Who holds what
| Insider | Role | Shares held | Buys 12 m | Sales 12 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MURDOCH KEITH RUPERT | Other | 779.2K | — | — |
| Thomson Robert J Chief Executive Officer | CEO | 396.4K | — | — |
| PANUCCIO SUSAN Chief Financial Officer | CFO | 233.1K | — | — |
| Pitofsky David B General Counsel | Officer | 144.3K | — | $1.3M |
| DeGrazio Marygrace Chief Accounting Officer | Officer | 43.7K | — | $317K |
| Allen Ruth Chief Human Resources Officer | Officer | 17.4K | — | $588K |
| MURDOCH LACHLAN K | Director | 16.1K | — | — |
| LGC Holdco, LLC | 10% owner | 14.3K | — | — |
| Chandrashekar Lavanya Chief Financial Officer | CFO | 9,476 | — | — |
| Delany Julian Chief Technology Officer | Officer | 4,555 | — | — |
| BANCROFT NATALIE | Director | 3,872 | — | — |
| AZNAR JOSE MARIA | Director | 2,834 | — | — |
| Siddiqui Masroor | Director | 1,747 | — | — |
| Pessoa Ana Paula | Director | 1,747 | — | — |
Open-market trade log
| Date | Insider | Type | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-10 | MFT SH Family Trust (10% owner) | Discretionary sale | 7,125 | $33.99 | $242K |
| 2025-09-10 | MFT SH Family Trust (10% owner) | Discretionary sale | 14.1M | $31.98 | $450M |
| 2025-09-10 | MFT SH Family Trust (10% owner) | Discretionary sale | 24.3M | $33.99 | $824.5M |
| 2025-09-10 | LGC Holdco, LLC (10% owner) | Open-market buy | 7,125 | — | $0 |
| 2025-09-10 | LGC Holdco, LLC (10% owner) | Open-market buy | 24.3M | — | $0 |
| 2025-08-15 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 43.6K | $29.73 | $1.3M |
| 2025-08-15 | DeGrazio Marygrace (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 10.6K | $29.94 | $317K |
| 2025-08-15 | Allen Ruth (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 20K | $29.44 | $588K |
| 2024-09-05 | Kline David R (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 10K | $26.96 | $270K |
| 2024-08-15 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 42K | $27.47 | $1.2M |
| 2024-08-15 | PANUCCIO SUSAN (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 57K | $27.33 | $1.6M |
| 2024-08-15 | DeGrazio Marygrace (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 9,918 | $27.41 | $272K |
| 2024-08-15 | Kline David R (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 13.7K | $27.42 | $376K |
| 2024-08-15 | Allen Ruth (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 7,151 | $27.44 | $196K |
| 2023-08-16 | PANUCCIO SUSAN (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 10.8K | $21.38 | $230K |
| 2023-08-15 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 58K | $20.98 | $1.2M |
| 2023-08-15 | PANUCCIO SUSAN (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 184.2K | $20.97 | $3.9M |
| 2023-08-15 | DeGrazio Marygrace (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 9,754 | $21.08 | $206K |
| 2023-03-03 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 23.8K | $17.23 | $409K |
| 2022-08-15 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 82K | $18.73 | $1.5M |
| 2021-12-07 | MURDOCH KEITH RUPERT (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 1M | $21.79 | $21.8M |
| 2021-08-16 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 22K | $23.55 | $518K |
| 2021-03-12 | MURDOCH KEITH RUPERT (Officer) | Open-market buy | 384.1K | $26.14 | $10M |
| 2021-03-11 | MURDOCH KEITH RUPERT (Officer) | Open-market buy | 115.9K | $25.75 | $3M |
| 2021-03-05 | MURDOCH KEITH RUPERT (Officer) | Open-market buy | 500K | $24.09 | $12M |
| 2021-02-09 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 16K | $21.82 | $349K |
| 2020-11-25 | Thomson Robert J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 70K | $17.97 | $1.3M |
| 2020-06-05 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 11.4K | $13.26 | $152K |
| 2019-09-10 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 24.9K | $14.46 | $361K |
| 2019-09-09 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 10K | $14.32 | $143K |
| 2019-08-15 | Pitofsky David B (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 30.9K | $13.83 | $428K |
| 2019-08-13 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 18.7K | $14.22 | $267K |
| 2018-08-15 | Thomson Robert J (CEO) | Open-market buy | 72K | $14.13 | $1M |
| 2017-12-04 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 2,468 | $16.66 | $41K |
| 2017-11-28 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 5,000 | $16.10 | $81K |
| 2017-11-16 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 7,387 | $15.62 | $115K |
| 2017-11-10 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 5,000 | $15.25 | $76K |
| 2017-11-07 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 5,000 | $14.50 | $73K |
| 2016-10-03 | Singh Bedi Ajay (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 29.9K | $14.39 | $430K |
| 2015-11-23 | MURDOCH JAMES R (Director) | Discretionary sale | 219 | $14.33 | $3K |
| 2015-11-23 | MURDOCH JAMES R (Director) | Discretionary sale | 411 | $14.49 | $6K |
| 2015-02-27 | Halpin Kevin (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 28.3K | $17.30 | $489K |
| 2014-12-08 | MURDOCH JAMES R (Director) | Discretionary sale | 613.4K | $15.64 | $9.6M |
| 2014-08-14 | BANCROFT NATALIE (Director) | Open-market buy | 1,500 | $16.86 | $25K |
“Since trade” compares with the latest insider-implied price, not a market quote; this site carries no market data by design.
Filing hygiene
How to read this
A Form 4 transaction code decides everything. P is an open-market purchase and S an open-market sale; those two are the only codes where an insider chose to trade. A is a grant, M an option exercise or vesting, F shares withheld to cover tax, G a gift. Most “insiders dumped billions” headlines are code F and M mechanics.
Sales flagged 10b5-1 run on a plan the insider adopted in advance; since 2023 every Form 4 carries that flag. Buys have historically predicted returns, sales mostly have not, and this page states filings, not advice.