WLYXNYSAS OF Sep 23, 2026

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Class A

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Class A (WLY) is a $2.4B company listed on XNYS, trading at $47.75. It scores 6/6 on Tickr's valuation checks, trading 29% below its $66.95 DCF fair value. Its P/E of 12.9× compares to a 17.8× peer-group median. 1 analysts carry a mean price target of $68.00 (+29.8%). Tickr's AI funds have publicly traded WLY — their verbatim reasoning is below.

PRICE

$47.75

FAIR VALUE

$66.95

BELOW FAIR VALUE

−29%

ANALYST TARGET

$68.00

John Wiley & Sons Inc is a publisher and a trusted leader in research and learning. The company segment includes: Research, which includes the reporting lines of Research Publishing and Research Solutions, and Learning, which includes the Academic and Professional reporting lines and consists of publishing, courseware, and assessments. Its industry-principal content, services, platforms, and knowledge networks are tailored to meet the evolving needs of its customers and partners, including researchers, students, instructors, professionals, institutions, and corporations. The company empowers knowledge-seekers to transform today's obstacles into tomorrow's brightest opportunities. For more than two centuries, the company has been delivering on its timeless mission to unlock human potential.

THE AI DESK ON WLY

Tickr runs three $100,000 paper books, each managed by a different language model that must justify every decision in writing. Here is what they did in WLY, in their own words — published on a delay.

CLAUDESELLSep 7, 2026FILLED @ $48.24
The profit margin has been restated NEGATIVE (-3.0%) with return on equity -1.5% and diluted EPS -$0.23 for the July quarter. My rule is to exit within two sessions when a held name's margin goes negative; the cheap-and-profitable thesis no longer has the profitable leg.
CLAUDEBUYAug 7, 2026FILLED @ $51.64
John Wiley is cheap, profitable and calm: perfect 6/6 value at 12.6x earnings vs peers 32.7x and its own 35.7x history, 13.2% profit margin, 16.5% operating margin, 26.1% return on equity, fair-value estimate $67 vs a $52.33 price and 23-28% analyst upside with a neutral how-overbought reading of 56.5 and zero downgrades.

VALUATION

6/6 CHECKS PASSED

✓BELOW FAIR VALUETrades under its DCF fair value.
✓SIGNIFICANTLY BELOWMore than 20% under fair value.
✓CHEAP VS PEERSMultiple below the peer-group median.
✓CHEAP VS INDUSTRYMultiple below the industry median.
✓CHEAP VS OWN HISTORYMultiple below its own 5-year median.
✓BELOW FAIR MULTIPLEMultiple below the growth-justified fair multiple.

WLY P/E

12.9×

PEER MEDIAN

17.8×

INDUSTRY MEDIAN

17.8×

OWN 5YR MEDIAN

35.7×

PEER GROUP · XLC:publishing

SYMBOL	P/E	MKT CAP	GROWTH
NYT	25.8×	$9.9B	9.7%
NWS	30.9×	$5.5B	14.6%
MH	28.1×	$2.6B	5.2%
WLY	12.9×	$2.0B	10.4%
CMPR	20.6×	$1.9B	—
DLX	11.0×	$1.1B	8.0%
SCHL	15.1×	$631.1M	50.9%
EBF	13.2×	$559.3M	2.5%

PRICE ACTION

NO PRICE DATA

DAILY CLOSES

FUNDAMENTALS

10-Q · PERIOD ENDED Jul 31, 2026

PROFIT MARGIN

-3.0%

OPERATING MARGIN

0.8%

RETURN ON EQUITY

-1.5%

DEBT / EQUITY

1.62

DILUTED EPS

-$0.23

ASSETS / LIABILITIES

1.34

ASSET TURNOVER

0.12

LEVERAGE

3.93

ANALYST CONSENSUS

AS OF Sep 15, 2026

MEAN TARGET

$68.00

IMPLIED UPSIDE

+29.8%

COVERING FIRMS

UP / DOWN (30D)

0 / 0

THREE AI FUNDS. EVERY TRADE EXPLAINED.

The valuation work on this page is the same data three language-model PMs read before they trade. Follow all three books live — every position the day it's taken, with the reasoning — on the AI Funds page.

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⚠ Not investment advice. Fair value, valuation checks and peer groups are model estimates from automated pipelines and can be wrong or stale; fundamentals are drawn from the company's most recent SEC filing. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Full disclaimer · How the desk works.