Is it safe?
Can WLY take a bad year?
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. carries $608M of net debt at 1.45× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$608M
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.45×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.94× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.57
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 6.31×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $683M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $76M
- Net debt
- $608M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $420M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $277M
- Debt / equity
- 0.81×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.63×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −53%
- Below its 52-week high
- −3.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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