John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) Issues FY25 Earnings Guidance

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) issued an update on its FY25 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.25-3.60 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.10. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.65-1.69 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.67 billion. John Wiley & Sons also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 3.250-3.600 EPS.

John Wiley & Sons Trading Down 12.3 %

WLY stock traded down $5.84 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $41.81. 73,504 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 332,770. The company has a market capitalization of $2.28 billion, a P/E ratio of -11.46 and a beta of 0.86. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.04, a current ratio of 0.52 and a quick ratio of 0.49. John Wiley & Sons has a fifty-two week low of $28.83 and a fifty-two week high of $49.20. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $45.72 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $40.21.

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, June 13th. The company reported $1.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.81 by $0.40. John Wiley & Sons had a negative net margin of 10.69% and a positive return on equity of 18.82%. The firm had revenue of $468.46 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $438.70 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.45 earnings per share. John Wiley & Sons’s revenue was down 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. Equities research analysts forecast that John Wiley & Sons will post 3.42 EPS for the current fiscal year.

John Wiley & Sons Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 25th. Investors of record on Tuesday, July 9th were paid a $0.3525 dividend. This represents a $1.41 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.37%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, July 9th. This is a positive change from John Wiley & Sons’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.35. John Wiley & Sons’s payout ratio is -38.74%.

About John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc operates as a research and education company worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Research, Academic, and Talent. The company offers scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, as well as related content and services to learned societies, individual researchers, other professionals, and academic, corporate, and government libraries.