WLYBJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.
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.
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.
What WLYB's price assumes
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. trades at 13.4× earnings against 16.1× for the median Communication Services name, cheaper than its own group.
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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- Price / bookas of 2026-Q3
- 3.40
- EV / EBITas of 2026-Q3
- 15.6
- EV / salesas of 2026-Q3
- 2.34
- Communication Services median P/E140 names
- 16.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $240M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.28B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −5.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +6.0%
| 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.