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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. WLY

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY
Revenue · FY2025
$1.7B
▼ 0.1% vs FY2024
EPS · FY25
Dividend / sh · FY25
Payout · FY25
34%
ROE · FY25
27.7%
Net margin · FY25
13.2%
Dividend coverage
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Result
USD 1.7B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue Net income
0.81.62.41.70.22008201120142017202020232025
0.81.62.41.70.22016201920222025

13 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.

Per share
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS
0.40.81.22008201120142017202020232025
0.40.81.22016201920222025

The company pays no cash dividend.

Profitability
27.7%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
816243227.7%2008201120142017202020232025
816243227.7%2016201920222025
Operating margin16.5%
Net margin13.2%
Return on assets8.4%

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

Returned to shareholders
USD 174.4M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
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.

Growth
−2.9% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
−6.0%
−2.9%
−0.3%
−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%

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.

Share base
Shares outstanding, FY2025
Change, 5 years
Change, 10 years

A share split breaks the comparison across the period, so we leave it out.

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Balance sheet
USD 2.6B
total assets, end of FY2025
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.

History
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
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
EPS, diluted $
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
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
Shares out B
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.

How we verifyAUDITED
61 of 61
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity

Every figure was compared against the original statement: 0 failures and 0 presentation gaps.

What we don’t show

We’d rather say what’s missing than fill the gap with an estimate.

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