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John Wiley & Sons Inc
John Wiley & Sons Inc (WLYB) is listed on NYSE and classified in Publishing, part of the Communication Services sector. It is headquartered in Hoboken, United States and has 4,500 employees. The company is worth $2.66B and trades at 14.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 16.1x. Revenue was $1.68B in fiscal 2026, down 0.1% from the year before. Net income was $221.62M. The share price is 5.4% below its 52-week high of $55.51. It pays a dividend yielding 2.72%, and has raised its annual dividend for 28 years in a row in our records. None of the 38 superinvestors we track reported it in their latest 13F. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
None of the investors we track reported a position in WLYB.
▼ -0.1% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,141.66▲ +14.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $52.53 | $30.88 | $44.06 | $32.16 | $39.23 | $55.83 | $45.41 | $48.75 | $46.82 | $65.99 | $54.67 | $45.40 | $60.55 | $54.99 | $38.82 | $44.40 | $45.55 | $42.25 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 9.6% a year plus a 2.7% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 16.1 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 19.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 9.6% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 10.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 6.3% a year against a 7.8% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Communication Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LBTYKLiberty Global Ltd. | $7.67 | — | 0.3x | 0.00% | -26.46% | $2.62B |
| AMCAMC Entertainment Holdings Inc | $2.93 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $2.62B |
| WLYJohn Wiley & Sons Inc | $54.05 | 14.0x | 3.4x | 2.65% | 25.91% | $2.74B |
| LBTYALiberty Global Ltd. | $8.14 |
| P/E | 19.3x | 12.6x | 20.2x | — | 103.7x | 15.0x | 21.2x | — | 16.8x | 14.1x | 33.8x | 22.0x | 15.3x | 22.4x | 23.0x | 11.2x | 15.9x | 18.9x | 19.7x |
| P/S | 1.5x | 1.7x | 1.0x | 1.3x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 1.5x | 2.2x | 1.9x | 1.5x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 0.0x |
| P/B | 2.7x | 3.3x | 2.3x | 3.3x | 1.7x | 1.9x | 2.9x | 2.7x | 2.4x | 2.3x | 3.8x | 3.1x | 2.6x | 3.0x | 3.4x | 2.3x | 2.8x | 3.8x | 0.0x |
| EPS | $4.16 | $1.53 | -$3.65 | $0.31 | $2.62 | $2.63 | -$1.32 | $2.91 | $3.32 | $1.95 | $2.48 | $2.97 | $2.70 | $2.39 | $3.47 | $2.80 | $2.41 | $2.15 |
| Dividend yield | 2.42% | 2.04% | 4.59% | 3.19% | 4.35% | 3.54% | 2.47% | 3.01% | 2.77% | 2.80% | 1.92% | 2.25% | 2.62% | 1.85% | 1.80% | 2.37% | 1.71% | 1.36% | 1.30% |
| Payout | 41.45% | 25.72% | 92.65% | — | 450.81% | 52.96% | 52.38% | — | 46.39% | 39.46% | 65.13% | 49.60% | 40.07% | 41.48% | 41.42% | 26.51% | 27.14% | 25.73% | 25.58% |
| Profit margin | 8.32% | 13.22% | 5.02% | -10.70% | 0.85% | 7.12% | 7.64% | -4.06% | 9.35% | 10.70% | 6.61% | 8.44% | 9.71% | 9.04% | 8.19% | 11.93% | 9.86% | 8.45% | 7.96% |
| ROE | 14.15% | 26.13% | 11.19% | -27.08% | 1.65% | 12.98% | 13.59% | -7.96% | 14.24% | 16.14% | 11.33% | 14.06% | 16.76% | 13.58% | 14.59% | 20.91% | 17.58% | 19.87% | 24.98% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+44.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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