John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday. The company reported $0.47 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.55 by ($0.08), Briefing.com reports. John Wiley & Sons had a negative net margin of 10.69% and a positive return on equity of 18.82%. The firm had revenue of $403.81 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $387.40 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.27 earnings per share. John Wiley & Sons’s quarterly revenue was down 10.5% on a year-over-year basis. John Wiley & Sons updated its FY25 guidance to $3.25-3.60 EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to 3.250-3.600 EPS.

John Wiley & Sons Price Performance

Shares of John Wiley & Sons stock traded down $1.45 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $43.21. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 721,012 shares, compared to its average volume of 342,119. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $45.81 and a 200-day moving average price of $40.24. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.04, a current ratio of 0.52 and a quick ratio of 0.49. The stock has a market cap of $2.35 billion, a P/E ratio of -11.87 and a beta of 0.86. John Wiley & Sons has a one year low of $28.83 and a one year high of $49.20.

John Wiley & Sons Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 25th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, July 9th were given a dividend of $0.3525 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, July 9th. This represents a $1.41 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.26%. This is a positive change from John Wiley & Sons’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.35. John Wiley & Sons’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is -38.74%.

John Wiley & Sons Company Profile

John Wiley & Sons, Inc operates as a research and education company worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Research, Academic, and Talent. The company offers scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, as well as related content and services to learned societies, individual researchers, other professionals, and academic, corporate, and government libraries.