WLY Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (John Wiley & Sons | NYSE:WLY)

John Wiley & Sons Inc is a provider of academic journals, books, pre- and post-hire assessments and training, test preparation materials, and online education program management solutions. The company's reportable segments are; Research, Learning, Held for Sale or Sold. The majority of the company's revenue is generated from the Research segment which provides peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing, content platforms, and related services to academic, corporate, and government customers, academic societies, and individual researchers. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from the United States and the rest from the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Canada, and other countries.

John Wiley & Sons trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WLY.

As of January 29, 2025, WLY stock price declined to $40.86 with 205,932 million shares trading.

WLY has a beta of 1.06, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. WLY has a correlation of 0.18 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WLY has a market cap of $2.21 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter John Wiley & Sons reported $427 million in Revenue and $.97 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $7 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.27.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WLY belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, VB, IWM, VBR.

WLY has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +20.2% while the SPY ETF gained +24.9%. WLY has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -16.9% and -3.6%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.0% and +3.4%, respectively.

WLY support price is $40.21 and resistance is $41.73 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that WLY shares will trade within this expected range on the day.