JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. financial metrics

Professional SEC-based dashboard for profitability, financial health, and growth with transparent scoring logic. Latest period: Q4 2025.

Symbol
WLY, WLYB on NYSE
Location
Hoboken, NJ
Fiscal year end
30 April
Latest financial report
06 Mar 2026

Quick Takeaways

  • WLY - JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. financial facts are built from SEC company filings data.
  • Latest metrics period on this page: Q4 2025.
  • Headline metric: Return On Equity 22%.

What Changed

  • Return On Equity YoY change: <span class="text-green-600">+273%</span>.
  • Most recent SEC facts end date: 31 Jan 2026.

Why This Matters

  • This gives a beginner-friendly first read before you inspect detailed formulas and metric tables.
  • Every metric card links to a deeper SEC-backed history page for verification.

Official SEC Source

Based on latest 10-Q/10-K

Facts and ratios are grounded in SEC company facts linked to the latest 10-Q/10-K cycle.

See Original Filing

Latest SEC snapshot (2026-01-31) highlights Return On Equity 21.5%, Return On Assets 6.0%, and Operating Margin 14.6%.

Financial Quality Score

Transparent 0-100 scoring model based on profitability, financial health, and growth factors.

54.2/100

Caution Confidence high

Return On Equity

22%

Metric score 79.5/100

Return On Assets

6%

Metric score 49.8/100

Financial Health

Current Ratio
0.59x
Quick Ratio
0.43x
Debt to Equity
2.44x

Strengths

Return On Equity and NetIncomeLoss YoY

Watchpoints

Debt-to-equity and Revenues YoY

Key metrics snapshot

Profitability

Metric Latest value YoY change
Return On Equity 22% +273%
Return On Assets 6% +284%
Operating Margin 15% +16%

Financial Health

Metric Latest value YoY change
Current Ratio 0.59x +7.9%
Quick Ratio 0.43x +5.8%
Debt-to-equity 2.44x -8.1%

Growth

Metric Latest value YoY change
Revenues YoY -1.9%
NetIncomeLoss YoY 273%

Share Metrics

Metric Latest value YoY change
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Basic 52,245,000 -3.2%
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Diluted 52,657,000 -2.4%

Additional Metrics

Metric Latest value YoY change
Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax $1,671,166,000 -1.9%
Costs and Expenses $1,427,977,000 -4.1%
Operating Income (Loss) $243,189,000 +14%
Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations before Income Taxes, Noncontrolling Interest $172,378,000 +19%
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) $18,015,000 -83%
Earnings Per Share, Basic 2.91 +293%
Earnings Per Share, Diluted 2.87 +293%
Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value $95,115,000 -9%
Accounts Receivable, after Allowance for Credit Loss, Current $200,220,000 +8.4%
Inventory, Net $19,295,000 -24%
Assets, Current $411,251,000 +4.2%
Property, Plant and Equipment, Net $141,708,000 -14%
Operating Lease, Right-of-Use Asset $60,442,000 -9.7%
Intangible Assets, Net (Excluding Goodwill) $595,100,000 +4%
Goodwill $1,138,748,000 +5.5%
Other Assets, Noncurrent $214,079,000 -34%
Assets $2,561,328,000 -1.5%
Accounts Payable, Current $50,099,000 -5.9%
Employee-related Liabilities, Current $69,830,000 -6%
Contract with Customer, Liability, Current $292,840,000 -6.5%
Liabilities, Current $692,415,000 -3.5%
Contract with Customer, Liability, Noncurrent $18,215,000 +4.6%
Deferred Income Tax Liabilities, Net $106,589,000 +13%
Operating Lease, Liability, Noncurrent $73,614,000 -12%
Other Liabilities, Noncurrent $69,487,000 -3.9%
Liabilities $1,811,353,000 -5.4%
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax $452,922,000 +13%
Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit) $1,620,940,000 +5.1%
Stockholders' Equity Attributable to Parent $749,975,000 +9.4%
Liabilities and Equity $2,561,328,000 -1.5%
Operating Lease, Liability $89,856,000 -12%
Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax, Attributable to Parent $220,840,000 +354%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid $108,467,000 -13%
Operating Lease, Liability, Current $16,242,000 -9.6%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year Two $16,827,000 -6%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year One $19,929,000 -10%
Operating Lease, Weighted Average Discount Rate, Percent 0.0622 +1.5%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, Undiscounted Excess Amount $18,611,000 -21%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year Three $15,208,000 +4.6%
Preferred Stock, Shares Issued 0
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized 2,000,000 0%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year Four $14,731,000 +2.4%
Additional Paid in Capital $490,089,000 +1.6%
Amortization of Intangible Assets $52,710,000 +1%
Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization $144,648,000 -8.5%
Share-based Payment Arrangement, Expense $5,345,000 +3.6%
Preferred Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share 1 0%

How we score

This score is transparent and deterministic. We weight profitability, financial health, and growth metrics, then renormalize weights when SEC data is missing.

Metric Weight V1 threshold
ROIC205% to 20%
ROE158% to 25%
ROA102% to 10%
Operating Margin55% to 25%
Current Ratio121.0x to 2.0x
Quick Ratio80.8x to 1.5x
Debt to Equity100.3x to 2.0x (lower is better)
Revenue YoY10-10% to +20%
Net Income YoY10-10% to +20%

How Calculated (standard_v1)

Metrics are computed with a market-consensus convention designed for cross-portal comparability.

  • TTM Operating Income / TTM Revenues
  • Current Assets / Current Liabilities (latest instant quarter)
  • (Current Assets - Inventory) / Current Liabilities; fallback: (Cash+Short-Term Investments + Accounts Receivable) / Current Liabilities
  • Total Debt / Stockholders Equity (latest instant quarter; shared unit; freshest series)
  • TTM Net Income / Average Equity (current quarter + same quarter previous year) / 2
  • TTM Net Income / Average Assets (current quarter + same quarter previous year) / 2
  • TTM NOPAT / Average Invested Capital, where NOPAT=Operating Income*(1-tax rate), Invested Capital=Equity+Total Debt-Cash & ST Investments
  • TTM Revenues YoY
  • TTM Net Income YoY