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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. WLY

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$1.7B

▼ 0.1% YoY

Net income

$221.6M

▲ 163.3% YoY

Free cash flow

$209.4M

▲ 48.4% YoY

In brief

What this company does

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. published over 1,900 academic research journals as of April 30, 2026. As of April 30, 2026, the Company employed approximately 4,500 colleagues worldwide. Wiley generated 85% of its revenue from digital products and services for the year ended April 30, 2026. The Company's operations are located primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom, with smaller offices in Germany, India, and Jordan. The Company reports its results in two segments, Research and Learning, with Research comprising the Research Publishing and Research Solutions reporting lines and Learning comprising the Academic and Professional reporting lines. Its Research segment accounted for approximately 67% of the Company's consolidated revenue in the year ended April 30, 2026. Its Learning segment accounted for approximately 33% of the Company's consolidated revenue in the year ended April 30, 2026. The Company, founded in 1807, was incorporated in the state of New York on January 15, 1904.

Written from the business description in JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 24 June 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.7B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 1.7 · Net income 0.2

Compound annual growth

Revenue

−6.0%

−2.9%

−0.3%

Net income

+134.3%

+8.4%

+4.3%

+1.7%

EPS, diluted

+137.6%

+9.6%

+5.3%

+2.7%

Returned to shareholders

+15.8%

+13.5%

+2.2%

+10.5%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −2.9% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +8.4%, earnings per share at +9.6%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

13 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 16.5% · Net 13.2%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 27.7%

Gross margin74.3%

Operating margin16.5%

Net margin13.2%

Return on assets8.4%

EBITDAUSD 420.3M

Each USD of equity produced 28 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 174.4M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 209.4

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 74.4 · Net buybacks 100.1

Dividends paidUSD 74.4M

Net buybacksUSD 100.1M

Share of profit78.7%

Consecutive raises—

USD 74.4M in dividends and USD 100.1M in buybacks — 79% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.6B

EquityUSD 848.2M

CashUSD 75.6M

Gross debtUSD 683.4M

Net debtUSD 607.8M

Current ratio0.54×

Net debt stands at 72% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
Revenue $B	1.7	1.7	1.9	2.0	2.1	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.6
Operating income $B	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	−0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
EBITDA $B	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3
Income tax $B	−0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Net income $B	0.2	0.1	−0.2	0.0	0.1	0.1	−0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1
Free cash flow $B	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2
EPS, diluted $	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 / sh $	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	34	90	−38	449	52	52	−103	45	38	63	48	39	37	40	23	23	23	24
ROE %	27.7	11.3	−22.4	1.6	13.3	14.6	−7.0	14.2	17.5	11.1	13.9	15.8	14.8	14.4	21.3	20.2	23.2	25.0

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 79 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityBooks: Publishing or Publishing & Printing

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inNew York

Fiscal year endsApril 30

Data on record since2008