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Fox to Acquire Roku for $22 B, Stock Falls 15%

6/17/2026

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Fox Acquires Roku

Fox Corp announced on June 16, 2026 it will acquire Roku for $22 billion, paying $160 per share and 0.9693 Fox Class A shares.
Post-deal Fox shareholders will hold roughly 73% and Roku shareholders about 27% of the new company.
Fox expects $400 million in run-rate cost synergies and $9 billion in annual ad revenue, about 14% of U.S. TV ads.
Fox stock fell more than 15% to $49.96 per share after the announcement.

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Netflix Denies Roku

Netflix denied interest in buying Lionsgate after missing a formal offer for Roku.
The company's unsubmitted Roku bid fell short of Fox’s $160-per-share price, prompting analysts to warn that a merger would face tougher antitrust review because Netflix both streams and creates competing content.
Co-CEO Ted Sarandos noted Netflix built its M&A muscle during the Warner Bros. Discovery effort after rejecting an $82.7 billion raise and losing to Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion bid.

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Historical Context

Fox Corp’s 2026 $22 billion purchase of Roku, echoes the early-2000s AOL-Time Warner merger, the then-largest U.S. media-telecom consolidation that sparked extensive antitrust challenges after its 2001 announcement. Both deals combine content creation with distribution platforms, prompting regulators the FTC and DOJ to scrutinize market concentration and consider divestiture conditions for future competition.

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Fox Acquires Roku

Fox Corp announced on June 16, 2026 it will acquire Roku for $22 billion, paying $160 per share and 0.9693 Fox Class A shares.
Post-deal Fox shareholders will hold roughly 73% and Roku shareholders about 27% of the new company.
Fox expects $400 million in run-rate cost synergies and $9 billion in annual ad revenue, about 14% of U.S. TV ads.
Fox stock fell more than 15% to $49.96 per share after the announcement.

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