WLYBJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.

$49.89+29% 1Y

$49.89

$29.3552 weeks$54.30

Is the price fair?

Good

Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.

2 good, 1 without data

What the price assumes~−4% a yearderived · Jul 31, 2026

Priced for a decline (~−4% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 6% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 87% of its own historyderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 13.4 vs a 17.4 median over 30 quarters (−23% vs median).

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. trades at 13.4× earnings against 16.1× for the median Communication Services name, cheaper than its own group.

13.4

Trailing P/E · Communication Services median 16.1 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales: 1.62
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q3
Free cash flow yield: 11%
Free cash flow yield · Communication Services median 8.7%
Growth the price implies: −4.3%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −4.3% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +6.0% a year over the last three.

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What the market has paid for these earnings: 30 quarters of its own multiple × $3.71 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$53.83
Its own P/E history, median	$64.54
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$76.80
52-week range	$29.35 – $54.30
Today	$49.89

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.

Ranks #4 of 6 by RyuScore