WLYB vs. PSO, WLY, SCHL, NYT, INGR, CHWY, DAR, POST, FRPT, and BROS
Should you be buying John Wiley & Sons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Wiley & Sons include Pearson (PSO), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Scholastic (SCHL), New York Times (NYT), Ingredion (INGR), Chewy (CHWY), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Post (POST), Freshpet (FRPT), and Dutch Bros (BROS).
John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYB) and Pearson (NYSE:PSO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Pearson has higher revenue and earnings than John Wiley & Sons.
In the previous week, Pearson had 8 more articles in the media than John Wiley & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Pearson and 1 mentions for John Wiley & Sons. Pearson's average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of 0.00 indicating that Pearson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pearson has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pearson received 403 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.26% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.
Pearson has a consensus price target of $12.30, indicating a potential upside of 1.91%. Given Pearson's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pearson is more favorable than John Wiley & Sons.
0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Pearson shares are held by institutional investors. 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pearson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pearson has a net margin of 0.00% compared to John Wiley & Sons' net margin of -8.14%. John Wiley & Sons' return on equity of 18.83% beat Pearson's return on equity.
John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Pearson pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. John Wiley & Sons pays out -48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Pearson beats John Wiley & Sons on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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