# John Wiley & Sons share price today (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., WLY)

> John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s P/E is near the low end of its own history, higher than only 16% of past readings, and its quarterly results are still getting worse. WLY · Communication Services · Publishing · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/wly

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## Key numbers

- Price: $50.81 (+37.8% in a year)
- P/E: 13.5× (lower than 84% of the last 4.5 years)
- Revenue (Jul 2026): $386 M (−2.6% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jul 2026): −$11.7 M (−200.2% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 7.3% (−0.7 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 26%, FY26
- ROIC: 15.7%, against a 6.4% cost of capital: +9.3 points
- Profit that came in as cash: 229%, last 3 years

The main question: yearly earnings per share moved +171.9% while the share price moved +37.8%. ## What is the John Wiley & Sons share price today? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s share price was $50.81 at the close on 3 November 2026. It has been rising for 12 weeks. That is 16.6% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 2 weeks running. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $29 and $54, and at that close it sat 87% of the way up from that low. Over the last 10 years the share price moved −4% while the S&P 500 moved +255%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 23 October 2026. 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. ## What dividend does John Wiley & Sons pay? 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 $50.81 that is a yield of 2.79%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast. ## Which stock lists is John Wiley & Sons on? 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. ## Is John Wiley & Sons profitable? 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. 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. ## How much revenue does John Wiley & Sons make, and is it growing? 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. 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). ## How much of every $100 of sales does John Wiley & Sons keep? 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. 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. ## Is John Wiley & Sons' profit turning into cash? 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. 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. ## Where does John Wiley & Sons' cash go? 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. 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. ## What is John Wiley & Sons' P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s P/E is 13.5×, near the low end of its own history: it has been lower only 16% 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. 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. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved +171.9% while the price moved +37.8%. Earnings did better than the price, which pulled the multiple down within its own range. Where the price move came from: over 3 years the price moved +18.2% a year; about +134.3% a year came from earnings growth and about −116.1 percentage points from the multiple (the market paying less). The split is approximate (price return minus earnings growth). It shows how much of the move came from the market paying a different multiple. In short: the multiple is low against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple. ## Is the John Wiley & Sons business getting better or worse? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s business trend cannot be read yet. There are fewer than eight usable quarters of growth figures, so there is not enough history to read the trend. This is based on 12 quarters of 2 measures, with some gaps. Why it matters: with too little history, we say so rather than guess a direction. One or more growth lines have an extreme jump caused by comparing with a near-zero or loss-making quarter. Those jumps are capped before reading and drawn at the edge of the chart, so one odd quarter does not decide the result. There are fewer than eight usable quarters, so this page does not guess a direction from so little history. ## How much does John Wiley & Sons earn on its capital? John Wiley & Sons, Inc. earned a ROE of 26% in FY26. That is up from a low of −27% in FY24. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 9.3 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a 13.2% net margin and 0.65× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY26): a 13.2% net margin × 0.65× asset turnover × 3.06× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 26.3% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it. The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 15.7% − 6.4% = +9.3 percentage points. The 6.4% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. A gap this wide means each dollar put back into the business creates more than a dollar of value. The 15.7% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY26 at 18.4%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method. ## Does John Wiley & Sons have too much debt? John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has total debt of $1.4 B against shareholder equity of $797 M as of Jul 2026, so its debt is 1.73× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.82 in FY22 to 0.91 in FY26. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page. ## What is the John Wiley & Sons shareholding pattern? 10.8% of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so a large group of traders is betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 8.9 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is John Wiley & Sons from balance-sheet trouble? For John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the Z-score is 2.01. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the grey area between the two. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. Why it matters: a Z-score of 2.01 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble. ## How does John Wiley & Sons rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is not present in the sector comparison for Publishing. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is John Wiley & Sons compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not present in the sector comparison. ## Which companies are close to John Wiley & Sons in size? John Wiley & Sons is the 3rd largest of 5 Publishing companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 November 2026). Just above it: The New York Times Company and Pearson plc. Just below it: USA TODAY Co., Inc. and Scholastic Corporation. ### Publishing companies close in size

1. [The New York Times Company](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/nyt) $10.8 billion
2. [Pearson plc](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/pso) $10.3 billion
3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. $2.6 billion
4. [USA TODAY Co., Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/tday) $833 million
5. [Scholastic Corporation](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/schl) $701 million

[All 5 Publishing companies, largest first](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/sectors/publishing#all-companies)

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## What else do people ask about John Wiley & Sons? ### What were John Wiley & Sons's latest quarterly results? John Wiley & Sons, Inc. reported revenue of $386 M and a net loss of $11.7 M for the Jul 2026 quarter. Revenue fell 2.6% and profit fell 200.2% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were −$0.23 (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is John Wiley & Sons's market cap? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s market capitalisation is $2.6 B at a stock price of $50.81. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is John Wiley & Sons performing? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s share price has been rising for 12 weeks. In its latest quarter, revenue fell 2.6% and profit fell 200.2% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 2 weeks running (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will John Wiley & Sons's stock price go up? This page does not forecast John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $50.81, and it has been rising for 12 weeks. Its P/E of 13.5× is higher than 16% of its own last 5 years (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is John Wiley & Sons's profit real cash? Yes, over the last 3 years, 229% of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from operations. The latest year was lower at 118%, so the trend is worth watching. In FY26, operating cash was $261 M against reported profit of $222 M. Most of that cash then goes into building new capacity. These are yearly figures (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is John Wiley & Sons in its business cycle? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s FY26 operating margin was 17.1%, against a 5-year range of 10.8% to 17.1%: the top of its range, a record year. When profit is at a record, every ratio looks better than usual, and the story depends on margins staying high. The latest quarter was 7.3%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the John Wiley & Sons story? The main question: yearly earnings per share moved +171.9% while the share price moved +37.8%. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is John Wiley & Sons a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s P/E is near the low end of its own history, higher than only 16% of past readings, and its quarterly results are still getting worse. The main open question: whether the price catches up with earnings that have already grown. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.