Fox Corp
For the period ended Nov 14, 2025. Filed Sep 25, 2025.
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Nov 14, 2025 · Filed Sep 25, 2025
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Elements of Compensation
The key elements of our executive compensation program for our named executive officers are (1) base salary that provides market-competitive, fixed compensation appropriate for each such executive’s experience and responsibilities; (2) annual non-equity incentive compensation that is based on an evaluation of Company, individual and group performance; (3) long-term incentive awards that support alignment with the interests of our long-term stockholders and are contingent on the achievement of long-term share price, relative total shareholder return, and financial performance goals; and (4) retirement benefits that attract and retain talented executives with post-employment security. In establishing the elements of our named executive officers’ compensation, the Compensation Committee considered each named executive officer’s management experience, cross-functional duties and responsibilities with the Company; each named executive officer’s duration of service to the Company and its predecessors; the industry and peer group in which the Company competes for talent; and, in certain instances, the compensation required to recruit and retain the named executive officer into a role with the Company. For fiscal 2025, 85% of the Chief Executive Officer’s target total direct compensation and 81% of all named executive officers’ target total direct compensation was “at risk”.
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Annual Base Salary
One element of compensation needed to attract and retain an employee in any organization is annual base salary. Annual base salary is the fixed element of a named executive officer’s compensation and does not vary with performance. The annual base salary provided for by the respective employment agreements of Messrs. L.K. Murdoch, Nallen, Tomsic, and Ciongoli were approved by the Compensation Committee in the context of each named executive officer’s particular position; the responsibilities associated with that position; his experience, expertise, knowledge and qualifications; market factors; the industry in which we operate and compete; recruitment and retention factors; and the Company’s overall compensation principles. Set forth below are the base salaries for each of the named executive officers for fiscal 2025, which did not increase from the fiscal 2024 base salaries for any named executive officer.
| Named Executive Officer | Annual Base Salary |
|---|---|
| Lachlan K. Murdoch | $3.0 million |
| John P. Nallen | $2.0 million |
| Steven Tomsic | $1.75 million |
| Adam Ciongoli | $1.75 million |
The Compensation Committee annually reviews the annual base salary of each of the named executive officers, subject to the terms of any applicable employment agreements. Annual base salary may be adjusted if the Compensation Committee determines that an adjustment is warranted or that a different mix of compensation elements may more appropriately compensate the individual named executive officer in light of the Company’s compensation objectives.
Annual Incentive Compensation
The named executive officers have a direct influence on our operations and strategy. The Compensation Committee believes that a significant portion of each named executive officer’s total compensation opportunity should be based on the Company’s financial and operating performance and progress against strategic goals and individual and group contributions. This framework fosters a performance-driven, pay-for-performance culture that aligns our named executive officers’ interests with those of our stockholders while also rewarding the named executive officers for superior individual and group achievements.
The Compensation Committee thoroughly reviewed the fiscal 2024 annual non-equity incentive compensation program (the “Annual Incentive Compensation”) and, following this review, the Compensation Committee elected not to change the performance metrics under which the fiscal 2025 Annual Incentive Compensation would be assessed. Consistent with the prior fiscal year, the Compensation Committee determined that 75% of the fiscal 2025 Annual Incentive Compensation would be based on the Company’s achievement of Adjusted EBITDA 1 versus the budgeted Adjusted EBITDA goal, and 25% of the Annual Incentive Compensation would be based on qualitative factors, including each named executive officer’s contributions to the Company’s financial and non-financial objectives, individually and as a group. The Compensation Committee believes that Adjusted EBITDA is widely used by investors and stockholders to measure the Company’s performance and is a material driver in stockholder returns and therefore is the appropriate quantitative metric against which our named executive officers’ performance should be assessed. The target range of the Adjusted EBITDA metric established by the Compensation Committee is designed to drive total stockholder return for our stockholders by providing our named executive officers with a rigorous, but achievable, short-term Company performance metric.
The Compensation Committee approved the following target and maximum Annual Incentive Compensation opportunities for each named executive officer for fiscal 2025.
| Named Executive Officer | Fiscal 2025 Target Annual IncentiveOpportunity | Fiscal 2025 Maximum AnnualIncentive Opportunity |
|---|---|---|
| Lachlan K. Murdoch | 200% of Base Salary | 200% of Target |
| John P. Nallen(a) | 150% of Base Salary | 200% of Target |
| Steven Tomsic | 157% of Base Salary | 200% of Target |
| Adam Ciongoli | 157% of Base Salary | 200% of Target |
(a)Pursuant to his amended employment agreement, beginning July 1, 2025, Mr. Nallen is entitled to receive target Annual Incentive Compensation Opportunities equal to 200% of Base Salary. For additional information on this arrangement, please see the section titled “Employment Arrangements” in “Executive Compensation” below.
(1) “Adjusted EBITDA” is defined as revenues less operating expenses and selling, general and administrative expenses. Adjusted EBITDA does not include amortization of cable distribution investments, depreciation and amortization, restructuring, impairment and other corporate matters, equity earnings (losses) of affiliates, interest expense, net, non-operating other, net and income tax expense. Adjusted EBITDA is the aggregation of the Segment EBITDA of each of the Company’s operating segments. For a discussion of Adjusted EBITDA and a reconciliation of net income to Adjusted EBITDA, see pages 40-41 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025.
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Quantitative Element of Annual Incentive Compensation
For fiscal 2025, the Compensation Committee set the threshold and maximum performance levels and target performance range for Adjusted EBITDA for the quantitative element of the Annual Incentive Compensation opportunities in the table below:
| Performance Level | Adjusted EBITDA (in billions) | Performance Goal as a Percentage of Target Adjusted EBITDA | Payout as a Percentage of Financial Performance Portion of Annual Incentive Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum | $3.74 | 120% | 200% |
| Target | $3.07 - $3.17 | 100% | 100% |
| Threshold | $2.50 | 80% | 50% |
A narrow target range is used, rather than a fixed dollar goal, to address challenges associated with setting performance goals with precision and to avoid unintended windfalls or shortfalls in actual payouts to the named executive officers. The target range for the Annual Incentive Compensation was designed around a midpoint that reflects the Adjusted EBITDA target for FOX’s company-wide operating plan, which was reviewed and approved by the Compensation Committee in August 2024. No quantitative portion of the Annual Incentive Compensation is payable below the threshold performance level and no additional amount is payable above the maximum performance level.
The Company’s fiscal 2025 Adjusted EBITDA of $3.624 billion fell between the target range and maximum performance and therefore the Compensation Committee determined that the quantitative portion of the Annual Incentive Compensation was earned at 179% of target.
The quantitative portion of the fiscal 2025 Annual Incentive Compensation was calculated as follows:
| Calculation Step · Amount Achieved · Target · ($ amounts in millions) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subtract Target from the Amount Achieved | $3,624 | $3,170 | A | $454 |
| Calculate difference between Maximum and Target | $3,744 | $3,170 | B | $574 |
| Divide result by the difference between Maximum and Target to yield percentage of Maximum to Target achieved | A/B = C | 79% | ||
| Multiply by difference in payout opportunity between Maximum and Target | 200% | 100% | D | 100% |
| Percentage of payout multiplier earned | C*D = E | 79% | ||
| Plus percentage earned by achieving Target | F | 100% | ||
| Adjusted EBITDA payout multiplier earned | E+F | 179% | ||
The table below illustrates the calculation of the 75% quantitative portion of our named executive officers’ Annual Incentive Compensation opportunity:
| Named Executive Officers | 75% of Target (Quantitative Portion) | Adjusted EBITDA Payout Multiplier | Annual Incentive Compensation Earned based on QuantitativePerformance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lachlan K. Murdoch | $4,500,000 | 179% | $8,055,000 |
| John P. Nallen | $2,250,000 | 179% | $4,027,500 |
| Steven Tomsic | $2,062,500 | 179% | $3,691,875 |
| Adam Ciongoli | $2,062,500 | 179% | $3,691,875 |
Qualitative Element of Annual Incentive Compensation
Additionally, when determining each named executive officer’s Annual Incentive Compensation, the Compensation Committee also considered the named executive officers’ performance, individually and collectively as a group, against the qualitative factors and related evaluation metrics established in advance by the Compensation Committee for fiscal 2025, as well as other factors the Compensation Committee in its discretion deemed relevant to the achievement of the qualitative element of the Annual Incentive Compensation. This assessment comprised 25% of the Annual Incentive Compensation determination.
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The performance factors underpinning this component of the Annual Incentive Compensation help focus the named executive officers on cross-functional strategic initiatives that are imperative to the Company’s continued long-term success. In order to evaluate the extent to which the performance factors were achieved for fiscal 2025, the Compensation Committee undertook a qualitative assessment of the Company’s performance and the performance of our named executive officers, individually and collectively as a group, taking into account the following qualitative factors and fiscal 2025 achievements:
| Qualitative PerformanceFactor | Fiscal 2025 Achievements |
|---|---|
| On-screen leadership | •FOX News finished fiscal 2025 as the #1 cable network in Monday to Friday primetime and total day viewing among total viewers for the tenth consecutive year. For the fiscal year, FOX News delivered primetime total viewership that exceeded the combined viewership of other cable news channels, delivered ratings that were comparable to ratings delivered by the four broadcast networks in weekday primetime viewing, and was the #1 rated news network among all major political parties among adults 25-54. FOX Business finished as the most-watched business network among total business day viewers during fiscal 2025. •FOX Sports was the industry leader in live events during the fiscal year with over 250 billion minutes of live sports event viewing on the FOX Network. During the fiscal year, the NFL regular season on FOX averaged over 18 million viewers, while the three NFC postseason games on FOX averaged over 38 million viewers, and Super Bowl LIX averaged nearly 128 million viewers across all platforms, making it the most-watched telecast in U.S. history. FOX’s America’s Game of the Week ranked as the #2 program on television among total viewers. The 2024 World Series on FOX averaged over 15 million viewers, the most watched World Series in seven years. In college football, the Michigan versus Ohio State game continues to stand as FOX’s most-watched regular season college football game. FOX’s inaugural broadcast of the Indy 500 drew over 7 million viewers, the highest for the race in 17 years. FOX’s Summer of Soccer featuring UEFA EURO 2024 and CONMEBOL Copa América 2024 was the most watched in U.S. English language TV history. Additionally, FOX aired the most-watched regular season women’s college basketball game on any network in the 2024-2025 season. •Total view time at Tubi reached approximately 11 billion hours over the course of fiscal 2025, a record and an increase of 13% compared to the prior fiscal year. According to Nielsen’s The Gauge, Tubi finished the fiscal year among the most-watched free ad-supported streaming services in the U.S., reaching approximately 2.2% of all television viewing. •FOX Entertainment featured the season’s #1 comedy program Universal Basic Guys, #1 unscripted debut Extracted, #1 game show The Floor, and television’s three highest-rated and most watched cooking shows with Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef, Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. •FOX Television Stations was the #1 or #2 rated local news provider in the hours of 5am-9am in the majority of the markets in which it operates among adults 25-54. |
| Continued expansion and support for our growth and digital businesses | •In fiscal 2025, Tubi delivered record revenues, which grew 29% compared to the prior fiscal year and exceeded $1 billion for the first time. Tubi expanded its content library to nearly 300,000 movies and television episodes, including the premiere of over 70 new original titles throughout the fiscal year. Tubi also grew its linear streaming offerings to supplement its on-demand library with the launch of 40 sports, entertainment and local news channels to bring its total offering to over 320 channels as of the end of fiscal 2025. Tubi partnered with FOX Sports to simulcast Super Bowl LIX, which averaged nearly 14 million Tubi viewers, setting a record for Super Bowl streaming viewership while peaking at 15.5 million concurrent streaming viewers.•The FOX Weather FAST service doubled its total view time compared to the prior fiscal year.•FOX News Digital remained the most-engaged brand in digital news, leading in total views, minutes spent and social interactions.•The FOX Nation subscription video-on-demand (“SVOD”) service grew subscribers by over 34% compared to the prior year.•Fox Television Stations digital advertising revenue grew 29% as compared to the prior fiscal year led by strong total view time on connected televisions and LiveNOW from FOX. |
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| Qualitative PerformanceFactor | Fiscal 2025 Achievements |
|---|---|
| Execute Strategic and Commercial Priorities | •The Company completed multi-year distribution and content licensing agreement renewals with key distribution partners.•The Company completed a multi-year content partnership deal with Hulu which will allow Hulu to retain the streaming rights for FOX’s extensive programming slate.•The Company acquired Red Seat Ventures, a leading business in the creator economy that powers talent across a range of genres enabling FOX to further expand its direct-to-consumer media businesses.•The Company announced plans for FOX One, its direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service incorporating all of FOX's linear programming across sports, news, and entertainment, which launched in August 2025.•The Company acquired Caliente TV, through which FOX will develop a multi-platform business that will include the launch of a new pay TV channel and an SVOD platform that will join the Tubi AVOD service, producing and distributing more than 3,000 hours of original sports content in Latin America. |
| Corporate culture and furthering our commitment to our environmental, social and governance agenda | •Continued to provide training to all of our employees on FOX’s Standards of Business Conduct and other key policies that further integrity and ethics, including FOX’s Preventing Harassment, Discrimination and Retaliation Policy. •Promoted culture and belonging through our approach to talent recruitment, development and retention, fostered employee career growth through increased enrollment in FOX leadership training programs and investment in our early career development and mentorship programs to build the pipeline of next generation of leaders and storytellers, and welcomed approximately 550 students to the FOX Internship Program in fiscal 2025.•Provided ongoing oversight of the Company’s risk management framework covering various risk factors, such as defamation, with enterprise-level training and compliance processes in place to support the Company’s consistent and existing high standards. |
In order to determine the extent to which the qualitative portion of the Annual Incentive Compensation was achieved, the Compensation Committee evaluated the previously-established qualitative performance factors against the fiscal 2025 achievements described above, as well as other factors that emerged over the course of the fiscal year that impacted the Company’s performance. The Compensation Committee weighted each qualitative performance factor equally when evaluating the achievement of such performance factor as a part of the entire qualitative portion of the Annual Incentive Compensation. In addition, the Compensation Committee determined that each of our named executive officers contributed equally to the achievements described above for each qualitative performance factor, and therefore the extent to which the qualitative performance factors were achieved was applied uniformly to the Annual Incentive Compensation of each named executive officer. The Compensation Committee determined that the named executive officers, individually and as a group, significantly exceeded the qualitative performance objectives defined at the start of the year. This strong performance contributed to robust shareholder returns in fiscal 2025 and, as a result, the Compensation Committee awarded 175% of the target qualitative portion of the Annual Incentive Compensation to the named executive officers.
In light of the Compensation Committee’s consideration of these factors, the Compensation Committee confirmed the payout multiples set forth below and calculated the Annual Incentive Compensation, which was paid in cash, as follows:
| Quantitative Performance · Qualitative Performance · Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named Executive Officers · 75% ofTarget · Multiple · Subtotal · 25% ofTarget · Multiple · Subtotal | |||||||
| Lachlan K. Murdoch | $4,500,000 | 179% | $8,055,000 | $1,500,000 | 175% | $2,625,000 | $10,680,000 |
| John P. Nallen | $2,250,000 | 179% | $4,027,500 | $750,000 | 175% | $1,312,500 | $5,340,000 |
| Steven Tomsic | $2,062,500 | 179% | $3,691,875 | $687,500 | 175% | $1,203,125 | $4,895,000 |
| Adam Ciongoli | $2,062,500 | 179% | $3,691,875 | $687,500 | 175% | $1,203,125 | $4,895,000 |
Long-Term Equity-Based Incentive Awards
The Compensation Committee believes that granting long-term equity-based incentive awards to our named executive officers aligns their compensation with the long-term performance of the Company and thereby links the named executive officers’ interests directly to those of the Company’s long-term stockholders. The Company’s compensation design principles are to drive performance without encouraging unnecessary risk taking, support long-term value creation for stockholders, and attract, retain and motivate top executive talent. Consequently, in August 2024, the Compensation Committee granted for fiscal 2025 a mix of long-term equity-based incentive awards focused on performance with the primary goal of enhancing alignment with the Company’s
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stockholders while also serving to reward performance and support retention. The mix of long-term equity-based incentive awards granted for fiscal 2025 is as follows:
Twenty-five percent (25%) of a named executive officer’s target long-term incentive award was granted as performance-based stock options with a three-year performance period (the “PSOs”). PSOs granted to our named executive officers will vest at the end of the three-year performance period and have a term of seven years thereafter. PSOs granted to our named executive officers vest only if, at any point during the three-year performance period, the closing price of the Class A Common Stock exceeds the exercise price of the PSO by at least 15% for at least 30 consecutive calendar days (the “Stock Hurdle”). The Stock Hurdle for the PSOs granted in August 2024 has been met.
Twenty-five percent (25%) of a named executive officer’s target long-term incentive award was granted as performance-based restricted stock units (“PSUs”) with a three-year performance period. PSUs granted to our named executive officers will vest after three years based on achievement of targets for the following performance metrics:
(a)Average annual adjusted earnings per share (“EPS”) growth, weighted 15%;
(b)Average annual adjusted free cash flow (“FCF”) growth, weighted 15%; and
(c)The Company’s three-year total stockholder return as measured against the three-year total stockholder return of the companies that comprise the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (“Relative TSR”), weighted 70%.
Fifty percent (50%) of a named executive officer’s target long-term incentive award was granted as time-vested restricted stock units (“RSUs”) that will vest in equal annual installments over a three-year period.
The Compensation Committee believes that allocating 50% of FOX’s long-term equity-based incentive awards as performance-based compensation appropriately aligns our named executive officers’ interests with those of FOX’s stockholders and is broadly consistent with practices within the Peer Group. Collectively, the Compensation Committee allocated (a) 15% of the grant value of the performance-based portion of each named executive officer’s target long-term incentive award to Company financial performance and (b) 85% of the grant value to TSR. We refer to TSR and the Stock Hurdle collectively as the hurdled stock performance measures. The Compensation Committee selected the hurdled stock performance measures to strengthen the alignment of interests between the named executive officers and our stockholders.
Company financial performance is measured through EPS and FCF. The Compensation Committee selected these metrics because it believes they support the Company’s long-term creation of stockholder value. EPS is one of the primary measures used by FOX’s investors and analysts to assess FOX’s and our management’s performance, and FCF gives a clear view of the Company’s ability to generate cash that can be used for investments in the business, returns to stockholders and other actions that enhance stockholder value. The Company adjusts EPS and FCF to ensure that the measurement of performance reflects factors that management can directly control and is not artificially inflated or diminished by factors unrelated to the ongoing operation of the business. This is intended to ensure that our named executive officers neither benefit from nor are penalized for unexpected or uncontrollable events or strategic decisions that are in the long-term interest of stockholders, but may have a negative or neutral effect on our named executive officers’ compensation and thus might drive decision-making that is not aligned with our stockholders’ interests.
For the fiscal 2025-2027 performance period, in August 2024 each of our named executive officers received long-term equity-based incentive awards in the following aggregate target amount:
| Named Executive Officer | Fiscal 2025-2027 Target Long-Term Incentive Award Opportunity |
|---|---|
| Lachlan K. Murdoch | 367% of Base Salary |
| John P. Nallen(a) | 250% of Base Salary |
| Steven Tomsic | 171% of Base Salary |
| Adam Ciongoli | 171% of Base Salary |
(a)Pursuant to his amended employment agreement, beginning July 1, 2025, Mr. Nallen is entitled to receive long-term equity-based incentive awards in an aggregate target amount equal to $6,500,000. For additional information on this arrangement, please see the section titled “Employment Arrangements” in “Executive Compensation” below.
The grant date for the fiscal 2025 long-term equity-based incentive awards, as approved by the Compensation Committee, was more than one full trading day following each of (i) the Company’s announcement of earnings for the previously completed quarter, and (ii) the filing of its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, with the exercise price of stock options set as the volume-weighted average price of the Class A Common Stock on Nasdaq on the date of grant and the number of RSUs and PSUs underlying each award determined based on the 20-day trailing average of the closing price of the Class A Common Stock as of the last day of the fiscal year.
Vesting of Performance-Based Long-Term Equity-Based Incentive Awards for Fiscal 2023-2025 Performance Period
As previously disclosed in our proxy statement filed in connection with our 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, in August 2022, the Compensation Committee granted long-term equity-based incentive awards that include PSUs (the “fiscal 2023 PSUs”) for the three-year performance period ended June 30, 2025 (the “fiscal 2023-2025” performance period). The fiscal 2023 PSUs vested
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based on the extent to which average annual adjusted EPS 2 growth (15%), average annual adjusted FCF 3 growth (15%), and the Company’s Relative TSR (70%) (collectively referred to as the “performance metrics”) were achieved over the fiscal 2023-2025 performance period.
In August 2022, the Compensation Committee established the following performance levels and weightings for the fiscal 2023 PSUs’ performance metrics:
| Fiscal 2023 – 2025 PSU Performance Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance Levels | Adjusted EPS Growth (15% Weighting) | Adjusted FCF Growth (15% Weighting) | TSR (70% Weighting)(a) | Payout as a % of Target Opportunity |
| Maximum | 22% | 22% | ≥75th Percentile | 200% |
| Target | 12% | 12% | 50th Percentile | 100% |
| Threshold | 2% | 2% | <25th Percentile | 0% |
(a)TSR has a 50% payout at the 25 th Percentile.
In August 2025, the Compensation Committee evaluated the average annual adjusted EPS growth, the average annual adjusted FCF growth and the Company’s three-year Relative TSR and approved the weighted payout of the three performance metrics (the “Final Performance Factor”) as set forth below.
| Performance Metrics | Target Performance | Actual Performance | Weighted Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjusted EPS Growth | 12% | 20.96% | 28% |
| Adjusted FCF Growth | 12% | 36.40% | 30% |
| Relative TSR | 50th Percentile | 77.2th Percentile | 140% |
| Final Performance Factor | 198% | ||
The weighted contribution disclosed in the table above reflects the percentage of the aggregate fiscal 2023 PSU performance achievement, factoring in the extent to which the applicable performance metric was achieved and the weighting placed on the applicable performance metric by the Compensation Committee. Based on the Company’s performance, the Compensation Committee determined a Final Performance Factor of 198% of target. As a result, the fiscal 2023 PSUs vested at 198% of the sum of the target number of shares of Class A Common Stock originally granted under such award plus the amount of dividend equivalents accrued on the award during the performance period. Our named executive officers received shares of Class A Common Stock in respect of the fiscal 2023 PSUs determined by multiplying the target number of fiscal 2023 PSUs awarded (including accrued dividend equivalents) by the Final Performance Factor as follows:
| Named Executive Officers | Fiscal 2023Target PSU Award Opportunity (# Shares) | Final PerformanceFactor | Fiscal 2023Final PSU Award Shares Earned (# Shares)(a) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lachlan K. Murdoch | 87,303 | 198% | 172,859 |
| John P. Nallen | 39,682 | 198% | 78,570 |
| Steven Tomsic | 23,808 | 198% | 47,139 |
(a)The number of shares earned with respect to the 2023 PSU Awards includes additional shares of Class A Common Stock that reflect dividend equivalents accrued and settled at the time the underlying PSUs vested.
(2) “Adjusted EPS” is calculated by dividing adjusted net income by the number of shares of stock (or stock equivalents) of the combined classes of the Company’s common stock used in the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Financial Statements”) for the applicable fiscal year in determining diluted earnings per share, after adjusting for new share issuances and the effect of corporate reorganizations such as stock splits. Adjusted net income is determined by excluding net income effects of restructuring, impairment and other corporate matters, adjustments to equity earnings (losses) of affiliates, non-operating other, net, tax provisions and noncontrolling interest adjustments. The determination of Adjusted EPS may reflect such other adjustments that the Compensation Committee deems appropriate so that the measurement of performance against the performance metric is not distorted. The Compensation Committee did not make any such additional adjustments to Adjusted EPS in determining Adjusted EPS growth for the fiscal 2023-2025 performance period.
(3) “Adjusted FCF” is calculated as net cash provided by operating activities as reported in the Financial Statements, less capital expenditures; comparable adjustments made to net income as reported in the Financial Statements in connection with the determination of adjusted net income will be made to FCF to the extent such adjustments impact FCF. The determination of Adjusted FCF may reflect such other adjustments to FCF that the Compensation Committee deems appropriate so that the measurement of performance against the performance metric is not distorted. The Compensation Committee did not make any such additional adjustments to FCF in determining Adjusted FCF growth for the fiscal 2023-2025 performance period.
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Retirement Benefits
In conjunction with 21CF’s spin-off of FOX and the establishment of FOX as a standalone public company in March 2019 (the “Transaction”), the Company adopted and maintains certain legacy retirement benefits in which certain of our named executive officers participate. The Compensation Committee believes maintaining these legacy retirement benefits continues to serve as an important retention tool for long-tenured executives. For additional information on these arrangements, please see the “Pension Benefits as of June 30, 2025” table and the “Potential Payments Upon Termination” table, together with the accompanying footnotes, and the section titled “Description of Pension Benefits” in “Executive Compensation” below.
Perquisites
Our named executive officers are provided with limited types of perquisites and other personal benefits that the Compensation Committee determined are reasonable and consistent with the overall compensation philosophy. Perquisites generally constitute a small percentage of each named executive officer’s total compensation package. The perquisites received by each named executive officer in fiscal 2025, as well as their incremental cost to the Company, are reported in the Summary Compensation Table and its accompanying footnotes below.
Some perquisites are generally intended to serve a specific business need for the benefit of the Company, including the safety and security of our named executive officers. Our named executive officers must adhere to a security plan developed with the assistance of a third-party consultant and assessed annually by our Compensation Committee based on the high visibility of our Company, the named executive officers’ positions and work locations, and a review of the judgments and recommendations of internal and external security experts. The Compensation Committee, with guidance from our third-party security consultant, has determined that these security-related costs are necessary to reduce the risk to the Company associated with our named executive officers’ positions and affiliation with our business. In particular, a core aspect of our business involves broadcasting extensive news coverage of elections, sociopolitical events and public controversies and related opinion programming, which sometimes produces strong reactions from viewers and critics. In addition, the FOX brand may be subject to significant publicity related to the Company or its operations, content and individuals associated with its content, management, employees, business partners and culture, among others. Due to their tenure and prominence in our industry, certain of our named executive officers — particularly our Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer — are synonymous with the FOX brand and face enhanced personal risk from being viewed as extensions of the FOX brand. In light of the risk inherent in their roles and the potential adverse impact this risk could have on the Company, the Compensation Committee approved the security plan and associated costs and considers our named executive officers’ adherence to this plan within the best interests of the Company and its stockholders.
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