John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY)
Communications · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 03:56 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. trades at $47.76, which is 135% below the $112.13 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 65 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 12.3 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
WLY dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.712 | 2 |
| 2025 | $1.42 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.41 | 4 |
| 2023 | $1.40 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.39 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.38 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.37 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.35 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.31 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.27 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.23 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
WLY earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 1 published rating
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a publisher, provides authoritative content and research intelligence for the advancement of scientific discovery, innovation, and learning in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. It operates through Research and Learning segment. The company's Research segment provides scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, as well as related content and services in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and life sciences. This segment sells its products direct to research libraries and library consortia, as well as to researchers and professional society members, and other customers; and through independent subscription agents. The company's Learning segment offers scientific, professional, and education print and digital books; digital courseware to support students and instructors, and assessment services for businesses and professionals. This segment sells its products and services to business and leadership, technology, behavioral health, engineering/architecture, science, and professional education categories through brick-and-mortar and online retailers, wholesalers who supply such bookstores, college bookstores, individual practitioners, corporations, distributor networks, and government agencies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. was founded in 1807 and is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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WLY passes 5 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
6 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Marshall Wace, MARSHALL WACE, LLP$6.89M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$6.04M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$5.42M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$3.98M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$240.9K · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
WLY peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Publishing), then in the same sector.
- NYT The New York Times Company
- PSO Pearson plc
- SPGNY Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA
- TDAY USA TODAY Co., Inc.
- SCHL Scholastic Corporation
- LEE Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
- GOOGL Alphabet Inc.
- META Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Common questions
Is John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $112.13, WLY at $47.76 is 135% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own WLY?
6 of the institutions we track reported a position in WLY in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is WLY's P/E ratio?
WLY trades at 12.3 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY) pay a dividend?
Yes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. yields 2.79% at the current share price. It has paid $1.42 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 42 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its WLY data?
Fundamentals for WLY come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 03:56 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.