Close the acquisitions of the OPIS and Base Chemicals businesses
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 3 Feb 2022
- Due
- 30 Jun 2022
- Delivered
- June 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“our planned acquisitions of the OPIS and Base Chemicals businesses, which we expect will close in the first half of calendar 2022”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
News Corp successfully completed the acquisitions of OPIS in February 2022 and Base Chemicals in June 2022, both within the first half of the 2022 calendar year.
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A News Corp (Class B) 10-Q filed 2022-11-09
“In June 2022, the Company acquired the Base Chemicals (rebranded Chemical Market Analytics, “CMA”) business” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A News Corp (Class B) 10-Q filed 2023-05-12
“the acquisition of OPIS on February 28, 2022” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +1.4% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (8 Nov 2022 to 11 Nov 2022). What this measures
Checked 17 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Transaction other
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- Acquisitions of OPIS and Base Chemicals businesses
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- Medium
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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