Fox Sets Nov. 2 Webcast for First-Quarter Fiscal 2027 Results

Fox Corporation gave investors three weeks’ notice on Oct. 12 that it will report results for the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal year on Monday, Nov. 2. The announcement is two paragraphs long. It matters because the company’s last report, in August, closed a fiscal year that was lifted by the FIFA men’s World Cup, and the new quarter will show how much of that lift carried over.

What Fox announced

Fox (Nasdaq: FOXA, FOX) said results will be released at about 8:00 a.m. Eastern on Nov. 2, with a live audio webcast beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, or 5:30 a.m. Pacific. The webcast and an archived version will be available at investor.foxcorporation.com. The notice names no speakers and gives no financial guidance.

The morning timing is a choice. Many companies release after the close and hold a call the same afternoon; Fox puts the numbers out before the opening bell and talks 30 minutes later. That leaves little gap between the document and the discussion, so analysts have less time to prepare questions, and the call is the first place management can frame the figures.

The baseline from August

In its fiscal fourth-quarter report on Aug. 6, Fox said revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 was $4.21 billion, up $925 million or 28%. Net income was $696 million, against $719 million a year earlier, and adjusted EBITDA was $1.20 billion, up 27%. For the full fiscal year, revenue was $17.13 billion and adjusted EBITDA was $3.91 billion.

The Television segment carried the quarter. Its revenue rose 45% to $2.48 billion, and segment EBITDA more than doubled, up 129% to $705 million. Cable Network Programming revenue rose 9% to $1.67 billion, but segment EBITDA slipped to $728 million from $747 million. The company attributed much of the advertising increase to the World Cup broadcast and noted that sports rights amortization and production costs rose with it.

The first-quarter report will show whether the August strength was a one-tournament effect or a higher base.

Cash and equivalents stood at $4.21 billion at June 30, compared with $5.35 billion a year earlier, and borrowings were $6.61 billion. Fox spent $2.0 billion on share repurchases during the year and had $3.4 billion of authorization remaining. The board raised the semi-annual dividend and declared $0.29 per share, payable Sept. 23 to holders of record on Sept. 2.

Reading the calendar

Fox’s quarter covers the period ended Sept. 30, 2026, and the notice does not say how the World Cup affects the comparison. Readers should look for three things in the Nov. 2 release: how advertising in the Television segment compares with the year-earlier quarter, how sports programming costs compare with the prior-year quarter, and whether the company repeats its pace of share repurchases.

The company describes its portfolio as FOX News Media, FOX Sports, Tubi Media Group, FOX Entertainment and FOX Television Stations. The August release credited digital advertising growth led by the Tubi ad-supported streaming service but gave no Tubi-specific revenue figure, so a reader should not expect the Nov. 2 notice to settle that question.

Dividend and capital return

The August report also gave a sense of how Fox returns cash. Dividends and distributions paid in fiscal 2026 totaled $287 million, and cumulative repurchases stand at about $6.7 billion of Class A stock and $1.9 billion of Class B stock. In the fourth quarter alone the company bought roughly $50 million of each class. The first-quarter release will show whether that quarterly pace holds now that the fiscal year has reset.

What to watch

The announcement itself requires no action from shareholders. Companies of this size schedule these webcasts as a matter of routine, and the useful work for a reader is to mark the date, pull the August baseline and decide in advance which lines of the release matter. The release and webcast links will be live at the investor relations site on the morning of Nov. 2.