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FY 2026 · View financials
Decision snapshot: ALTR stock price vs NWSA: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at NWSA's multiple
Needs NWSA P/E.
Implied fair value · at ALTR's multiple
Needs ALTR P/E.
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Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth edge
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: ALTR FY 2024 (ended Dec 31, 2024) · NWSA FY 2026 (ended Jun 30, 2026). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Seven fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Price framework
Discounted free cash flow, then bridged to a per-share price. Same assumptions applied to both companies.
ALTAIR ENGINEERING INC. · implied price per share
Bear
$8.85
Base
$10.42
Bull
$11.98
NEWS CORPORATION · implied price per share
Bear
$18.54
Base
$21.81
Bull
$25.08
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
0.22x
0.24x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
-4.39x
-0.10x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$561.90M
$2.19B
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe ALTR can convert its 81.3% gross margin and 8.7% revenue growth into meaningfully higher operating and net margins, then the DCF range suggests accumulating exposure because the $2.20 P/E-implied value sits below both NWSA-implied floor and the DCF range.
The provided implied price for ALTR under the P/E framework is $2.20, while NWSA-implied range is $2.32 to $15.42 and the DCF range is $5.08 to $6.88. That places the P/E-based implication slightly below the low end of NWSA range and well below the DCF range, but the absence of ALTR P/E, P/S, and EV-based multiples limits precision.
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