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John Wiley & Sons (WLYB) Competitors

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$44.85 +0.25 (+0.56%)
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WLYB vs. WLY, WBTN, GCI, LEE, DALN, VSME, SOBR, NWS, PSO, and SCHL

Should you be buying John Wiley & Sons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Wiley & Sons include John Wiley & Sons (WLY), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), Lee Enterprises (LEE), DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), SOBR Safe (SOBR), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), and Scholastic (SCHL).

John Wiley & Sons vs.

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) and John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYB) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

John Wiley & Sons received 1 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 20.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
John Wiley & SonsOutperform Votes
1
20.00%
Underperform Votes
4
80.00%
John Wiley & SonsOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
3
100.00%

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
John Wiley & Sons-2.82% 24.14% 6.67%
John Wiley & Sons -2.82%24.14%6.67%

John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. John Wiley & Sons pays out 190.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. John Wiley & Sons pays out 190.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. John Wiley & Sons has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years and John Wiley & Sons has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years.

John Wiley & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than John Wiley & Sons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
John Wiley & Sons$1.70B1.43-$200.32M$0.7460.97
John Wiley & Sons$1.70B1.43-$200.32M$0.7461.02

73.9% of John Wiley & Sons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of John Wiley & Sons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, John Wiley & Sons and John Wiley & Sons both had 6 articles in the media. John Wiley & Sons' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of 0.62 indicating that John Wiley & Sons is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
John Wiley & Sons
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
John Wiley & Sons
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

John Wiley & Sons beats John Wiley & Sons on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WLYB vs. The Competition

MetricJohn Wiley & SonsBook publishing IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.43B$3.21B$16.95B$19.60B
Dividend Yield3.15%4.23%2.87%3.77%
P/E Ratio-49.625.6816.3733.43
Price / Sales1.431.302.5926.67
Price / Cash6.576.4316.3917.54
Price / Book3.321.946.704.61
Net Income-$200.32M$16.34M$734.56M$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.44%0.92%-0.93%-1.01%
1 Month Performance13.15%1.26%-2.34%-3.29%
1 Year Performance18.14%3.06%-0.13%5.35%

John Wiley & Sons Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
1.3016 of 5 stars
$44.85
+0.6%
N/A+16.2%$2.42B$1.70B-49.299,500Dividend Announcement
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
1.5388 of 5 stars
$45.14
+1.6%
N/A+17.3%$2.43B$1.70B-49.606,400Dividend Announcement
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.7135 of 5 stars
$8.96
+2.6%
$17.33
+93.5%
N/A$1.15B$1.35B19.481,854News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
GCI
Gannett
3.5364 of 5 stars
$3.16
+3.1%
$5.55
+75.9%
+29.4%$464.95M$2.51B-5.8414,200Positive News
Gap Down
LEE
Lee Enterprises
N/A$10.50
+1.4%
N/A-20.1%$65.01M$600.26M-1.444,360Gap Up
DALN
DallasNews
N/A$5.50
-5.8%
N/A+14.5%$29.44M$125.39M-4.91660
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.8906 of 5 stars
$1.00
+1.9%
N/A-60.7%$2.85M$8.49M0.00N/A
SOBR
SOBR Safe
1.0273 of 5 stars
$0.62
-3.4%
N/A+46.8%$590,000.00$183,859.00-0.019News Coverage
Trading Halted
NWS
News
0.4141 of 5 stars
$30.75
-0.1%
N/A+13.5%$17.45B$10.25B42.1225,500News Coverage
PSO
Pearson
3.5585 of 5 stars
$15.68
+1.2%
$18.00
+14.8%
+23.6%$10.45B$3.55B16.6821,400Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
SCHL
Scholastic
4.0003 of 5 stars
$19.51
-8.1%
N/A-48.6%$548.25M$1.59B-108.386,880Positive News
High Trading Volume
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