John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY)

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2023-02-02); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2021-06-30) (its current reports).

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.7 billion in fiscal 2017 to $1.7 billion in fiscal 2026, down 0.3% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 20% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2026; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-04-30, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 65% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-04-30, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. earned about 26 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 48 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 67 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 50% by size; a net margin of 13.2% ranks in the top 12%; revenue growth of -6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 26% (its annual reports).

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kissner, Matthew S (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-10-12, 3.1 years (bottom 30% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.8 years (bottom 39%); 12 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (bottom 16%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $76 million against debt of $671 million leaves -23% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 12.5% of revenue (top 21%); a gross margin of 74.3% (top 10%) (its annual report).

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -6% a year over the last three filed years against -0.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 23% of its family); the newest year grew -0.1% (bottom 36%); capital spending grew -14.2% a year (bottom 18%) (its annual reports). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 9.7% above the $1.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 17% of its family); net income of $222 million against a prior three-year average of $33 million (top 7%); a net margin of 13.2% against -1.6% before (top 12%) (its annual reports).