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Market cap

2.1B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E9

P25 9.1P50 13.9P75 26.1

Trailing P/E14.4

P25 9.5P50 16.4P75 38.9

ROE21.5

P25 -39P50 -0.5P75 11.8

ROIC14.7

P25 -10.3P50 2.5P75 10

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All WLY market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 259 of 259 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000107140
Company name	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	968223206
Employees	5,200
Employees Change	-1,200%
Employees Change Percent	-18.75
Enterprise value	$2.9B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Publishing
Isin	US9682232064
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$2.1B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$41.39
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	321,378.08x
Sector	Communication Services
Sic	2731
Symbol	WLY
Website	https://www.wiley.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	7.27%
EV Earnings	18.97x
EV Sales Forward	6.44x
EV/EBIT	11.17x
EV/EBITDA	8.99x
EV/FCF	14.9x
EV/Sales	1.75x
FCF yield	9.25%
Forward P/E	8.97x
P/B ratio	2.85x
P/E ratio	14.4x
P/S ratio	1.27x
PE Ratio10 Y	26.09x
PE Ratio5 Y	31.52x
PEG ratio	1.2x
PS Forward	4.67x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	15.69%
EBITDA Margin	19.5%
FCF margin	11.76%
Gross margin	74.13%
Gross Profit	$1.2B
Gross Profit Growth	-3.86%
Gross Profit Growth Q	0.62%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-3.92%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	-1.53%
Net Income	$154.4M
Net Income Growth	273.46%
Net Income Growth Quarters	7%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Pretax Margin	10.31%
Profit Margin	9.24%
Profit Per Employee	$29,685
Profitable Years	1
ROA	6.35
Roa5y	4.59
ROCE	14.03
ROE	21.51
Roe5y	3.67
ROIC	14.71
Roic5y	9.35

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	1%
Cagr15y	1.43%
Cagr1y	-3.54%
Cagr20y	3.07%
Cagr3y	8.75%
Cagr5y	-4.69%
Div CAGR10	1.7%
Div CAGR3	0.71%
Div CAGR5	0.72%
EPS Growth	282.9
EPS Growth Quarters	7
EPS Growth Years	1
FCF Growth	12.71%
FCF Growth Q	25.6%
FCF Growth3 Y	9.78%
FCF Growth5 Y	-6.4%
OCF Growth	7.69%
OCF Growth Q	22.96%
OCF Growth10 Y	-2.22%
OCF Growth3 Y	2.68%
OCF Growth5 Y	-6.47%
Revenue Growth	-1.9x
Revenue Growth Q	1.34x
Revenue Growth Quarters	1x
Revenue Growth Years	0x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-6.42x
Revenue Growth5 Y	-2.33x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.65
Assets	$2.6B
Cash	$95.1M
Current Assets	$411.3M
Current Liabilities	$692.4M
Debt	$899.5M
Debt EBITDA	$2.64
Debt Equity	$1.2
Debt FCF	$4.58
Equity	$750M
Interest Coverage	5.77
Liabilities	$1.8B
Long Term Assets	$2.2B
Long Term Liabilities	$1.1B
Net Cash	$-804.4M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-37.87
Net Debt EBITDA	$2.47
Net Debt Equity	$1.07
Net Debt FCF	$4.09
Tangible Book Value	$-983.9M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-19.07
WACC	7.4

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.59
Inventory Turnover	19.39
Net Working Capital	$-348.6M
Quick ratio	0.43
Working Capital	$-281.2M
Working Capital Turnover	$-5.54

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.85%
Dividend Growth	0.71%
Dividend Growth Years	27%
Dividend per share	$1.42
Dividend Years	32
Dividend Yield	3.43%
Ex Div Date	2026-04-07
Last Dividend	$0.36
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	49.41%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	10.42%
1Y total return	-3.53%
200-day SMA	36.19
3Y total return	28.63%
50-day SMA	38.22
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	-21.37%
All Time High	71.75
All Time High Change	-42.31%
All Time High Date	2018-06-13
All Time Low	6.66
All Time Low Change	521.84%
All Time Low Date	1996-12-17
ATR	1
Beta	0.79
Beta1y	0.46
Beta2y	0.58
Ch YTD	35.13
High	41.59
High52	45.64
High52 Date	2025-06-27
High52ch	-9.31%
Low	39.95
Low52	28.38
Low52 Date	2026-02-04
Low52ch	45.84%
Ma50ch	8.29%
Price vs 200-day SMA	14.38%
RSI	63.76
RSI Monthly	52.75
RSI Weekly	65.91
Sharpe ratio	-0.05x
Sortino ratio	0.1
Total Return	5.28%
Tr YTD	36.39
Tr15y	23.65%
Tr1m	8.18%
Tr1w	1.12%
Tr3m	42.87%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.65
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	20.44
Earnings Revenue Estimate	450,000,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	1.68x
Operating Income	$262.3M
Operating Income Growth	14.22
Operating Income Growth Q	22.13
Operating Income Growth3 Y	11.3
Operating Income Growth5 Y	3.72
Operating margin	15.69

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	39,229,115%
Float Percent	76.44%
Net Borrowing	-111,978,000
Shares Insiders	6.05%
Shares Institutions	81.58%
Shares Out	51,322,996
Shares Qo Q	-1.6%
Shares Yo Y	-1.85%
Short Float	9.03%
Short Ratio	7.09
Short Shares	6.9

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$174.7M
Average Volume	390,128.85x
Bv Per Share	14.53
CAPEX	$-57.1M
Ch10y	-18.57
Ch15y	-17.81
Ch1m	8.18
Ch1w	1.12
Ch1y	-7.18
Ch20y	14.05
Ch3m	41.55
Ch3y	15.23
Ch5y	-33.61
Ch6m	13.3
Change	1.7%
Change From Open	2.15
Close	40.7
Days Gap	-0.44
Depreciation Amortization	63,652,000
Dollar Volume	17,921,663.1
Earnings Date	2026-06-16
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$262.3M
EBITDA	$325.9M
EPS	$2.87
F Score	7
FCF	$196.5M
FCF EV Yield	6.71x
FCF Per Share	$3.83
Financing CF	-289,378,000
Fiscal Year End	April
Founded	1,807
Goodwill	1,138,748,000
Graham Number	30.65612
Graham Upside	-25.93
Income Tax	$18M
Investing CF	21,282,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-03-05
Last Report Date	2026-01-31
Last Split Date	1999-06-01
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-06-25
Ma150	34.93
Ma150ch	18.51%
Ma20	40.87
Ma20ch	1.27%
Net CF	-9,395,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-06-16
Open	40.52
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	10.81
P OCF Ratio	8.37
Payment Date	2026-04-23
Position In Range	87.8
Ppne	202,150,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$6.52
Relative Volume	1.11x
Revenue	1,671,166,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.31x
Share Based Comp	21,868,000
Tax By Revenue	1.08x
Tax Rate	10.45%
Tr20y	83.17%
Tr6m	15.68%
Us State	New Jersey
Volume	432,995
Z Score	2.44

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Income

WLY dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+3.4%

$1.42 annual per share

Payout ratio

+49.4%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+0.7%

27 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+5.3%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-04-07

Performance

WLY stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns WLY?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+81.6%

Float: +76.4% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+6.0%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

WLY momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

63.8

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+14.4%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.79

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-0.05

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

WLY vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
DIS	The Walt Disney Company	187.6B	17.3x	1.9x	9.2%	+10.8%	+7.0%	Conserver
GOOGL	Alphabet Inc.	4.9T	30.6x	11.5x	28.3%	+16.5%	+165.7%	Acheter
META	Meta Platforms Inc.	1.5T	22.2x	7.2x	29.8%	+17.9%	+2.5%	Achat fort

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