John Wiley & Sons share price today

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s share price was $52.30 at the close on 4 November 2026. It has been rising for 12 weeks. That is 19.7% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, and it has stayed ahead for 1 week in a row.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). Today John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is in stage 2. The phase helps read everything below.

In the last 52 weeks it traded between $29 and $54, and at that close it sat 93% of the way up from that low.

Over the last 10 years the share price moved −1% while the S&P 500 moved +261%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. paid $1.42 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.36 for Jul 2026. At today's price of $52.30 that is a yield of 2.72%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast.

A dividend is cash paid out for each share. The 12-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.

John Wiley & Sons is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. posted a net loss of $11.7 M in the Jul 2026 quarter. Full-year FY26 profit was $222 M. Over 4 years profit has grown 10.6% a year on average. That loss is 3.0% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $11.7 M. 5 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

Jul 2026 profit was −$11.7 M, −200.2% on a year earlier. For the full year, FY26 profit was $222 M (+163.3% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed −2.6% on a year earlier and the margin moved −0.7 percentage points. Sales did the work, and the margin was about flat.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −30.1% and revenue −0.3%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. reported $386 M of revenue in the Jul 2026 quarter, −2.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. Over 4 years it has grown −5.3% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at $1.7 B. The last four reported quarters add to $1.7 B.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

FY26 revenue was $1.7 B, −0.1% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −0.3% on average, against −5.3% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew −0.3%, against −4.5% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating).

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s operating margin was 7.3% in the Jul 2026 quarter, 0.7 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Its latest full-year margin is the highest it has ever reported. Across 5 years it has been between 10.8% and 17.1%. The latest quarter is below every full year in that period.

Operating margin is what is left from every $100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −0.7 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +1.4 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged.

As noted under valuation: when margins are at a record, every ratio built on profit looks better than usual, so a low multiple can mislead.

Over the last 3 years, 229% of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY26 it brought in $261 M of operating cash against $222 M of profit. After $51.2 M of spending on assets, $209 M was left over as free cash.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $189 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 3.8% of FY26 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: $189 M over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s P/E is 13.9×, near the low end of its own history: it has been lower only 19% of the time. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 22.2×, over 4.5 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.

Keep one thing in mind: margins are the best this company has ever reported. A multiple that looks low against its own past can mislead when profit is at a record. If margins fall back, today's multiple is higher than it looks.