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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. WLY

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.7B
▼ 0.1% YoY
$221.6M
▲ 163.3% YoY
$209.4M
▲ 48.4% YoY

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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
1B2B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−6.0%
−2.9%
−0.3%
−0.3%
+134.3%
+8.4%
+4.3%
+1.7%
+137.6%
+9.6%
+5.3%
+2.7%
+15.8%
+13.5%
+2.2%
+10.5%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −2.9% a year over the five years to FY2025 — 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%
5%10%15%-5%-10%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 27.7%
10%20%-10%-20%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin74.3%
Operating margin16.5%
Net margin13.2%
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
150M300M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 74.4 · Net buybacks 100.1
100M200M-15M-30MDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025
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—not applicable◌not available in our data
WLY, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B1.71.71.92.02.11.91.81.81.81.71.71.81.81.81.81.71.71.6
Operating income $B0.30.20.10.10.20.2−0.10.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.30.20.20.2
EBITDA $B0.40.40.20.30.40.40.10.40.40.40.30.40.40.30.40.40.40.3
Income tax $B−0.00.10.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.10.10.10.0
Net income $B0.20.1−0.20.00.10.1−0.10.20.20.10.10.20.20.10.20.20.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.20.10.10.20.30.30.20.20.30.20.30.30.30.30.30.30.30.2
EPS, diluted $4.161.53−3.650.312.622.63−1.322.913.321.952.482.972.702.393.472.802.412.15
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %3490−384495252−1034538634839374023232324
ROE %27.711.3−22.41.613.314.6−7.014.217.511.113.915.814.814.421.320.223.225.0

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 79 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityBooks: Publishing or Publishing & Printing
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inNew York
Fiscal year endsApril 30
Data on record since2008

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