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What it means
- What to watch: $NYT is dealing with a legal or regulatory problem; these tend to move slowly, so the timeline matters as much as the charge.
- How the stock is trading: $NYT +0.23% in the latest session.
- Timing: Weekend news: the change beside it is Friday's, and Monday's open is the first session that gets a say. Market holidays are not detected.
Where the stock stands
$NYT last changed hands at $69.58, +0.23% on the session, 20% below its 52-week high of $87.10 and 24% above its low of $55.93 — a little below the middle of the range. Over the year it has ranged 56% from low to high: a wide band, so a several-percent week is just a week. These are latest-session quotes, not live prices — the live tape is on the $NYT page.
How much coverage it is getting
Wook has logged 10 stories on $NYT in the last 30 days, 2 of them this week. At its 30-day pace you would expect about 2 a week, so this week is about normal. Across those stories the wording ran 0% bullish, 90% neutral and 10% bearish — mostly headline writers keeping a straight face. This one reads bearish, so it sits in a small minority of the run. 4 came from New York Times Business; the rest came from other outlets, so this is a story more than one newsroom is chasing. 12 of them are listed beside this one.
The bigger picture
In media and telecom, the subscriber count gets the headline, but the economics live in what each customer pays and what it costs to keep them from leaving. On Wook's supply-chain scanner, Communication Services reads calm today — no unusual stress in the filings and disclosures it watches. The scanner equivalent of a quiet night shift.
Coming up
$NYT earnings in 11 days. These were on the calendar before this story and are not caused by it, but the nearest is close enough that the next hard numbers on this company are almost here.
What to watch next
For the receipts, the $NYT page has the full chart, the filings and the valuation model these figures come from. Want the facts without the spin? Read how two or three outlets frame the same story — where they agree is the news, where they differ is the angle. And Wook AI, up top, will happily do the math — how far $NYT sits from its high, or how this week's coverage stacks up.
How this analysis was made
New York Times Business published it, and Wook filed it under Media & Telecom. It reads bearish at medium severity because of “investigation” in the wording, with nothing on the bullish side to offset it. It was matched to $NYT. The preview above is the publisher's own wording.
The tone and severity labels come from a fixed word list — no editor, no AI, no crystal ball — so they describe how a story is worded, not what happens next. They are not a forecast or a recommendation, and a same-day move does not mean this story caused it. Not investment advice.
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