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What WLY's price assumes
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. trades at 11.7× earnings against 20.0× for the median Communication Services name, cheaper than its own group.
11.7
Trailing P/E · Communication Services median 20.0 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.97
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.0%
Free cash flow yield · Communication Services median 6.3%
- Growth the price implies
- −2.3%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −2.3% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +2.2% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 2.17
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 9.63
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.40
- Communication Services median P/E102 names
- 20.0
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $209M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.31B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −6.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +2.2%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $58.89 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $75.63 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $81.07 |
| 52-week range | $28.52 – $54.80 |
| Today | $48.69 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Communication Services
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