Is the business good?
How good a business is WLY?
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. earns 15% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
15%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.0 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 17%
Operating margin · Communication Services median 12% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.94×
Cash conversion · 1.68× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Gross margin
- 74%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 9.6% |
| FY2022 | 11% |
| FY2023 | 2.8% |
| FY2024 | 2.8% |
| FY2025 | 13% |
| FY2026 | 17% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 74%
- Operating margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 17%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 13%
- Free cash flow margin
- 12%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.68B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $209M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $222M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 15%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Communication Services
Ranks #55 of 100 by Smart Score