John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY) To Go Ex-Dividend on April 7th

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:WLY) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 26th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 7th will be paid a dividend of 0.355 per share on Thursday, April 23rd. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, April 7th.

John Wiley & Sons has raised its dividend payment by an average of 0.0%per year over the last three years and has raised its dividend every year for the last 26 years. John Wiley & Sons has a dividend payout ratio of 33.8% meaning its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings.

John Wiley & Sons Price Performance

WLY opened at $37.67 on Friday. John Wiley & Sons has a 52-week low of $28.38 and a 52-week high of $45.64. The company has a 50 day moving average of $32.42 and a two-hundred day moving average of $34.50. The company has a market cap of $1.93 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.13 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a quick ratio of 0.57, a current ratio of 0.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.06.

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, March 5th. The company reported $0.97 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.86 by $0.11. John Wiley & Sons had a net margin of 9.24% and a return on equity of 28.38%. The business had revenue of $410.04 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $391.00 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.84 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 1.3% on a year-over-year basis. John Wiley & Sons has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.900-4.350 EPS. On average, analysts expect that John Wiley & Sons will post 3.42 earnings per share for the current year.

About John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc is a global publishing and educational services company founded in 1807 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company operates through two primary segments: Research & Publishing and Education. Through these segments, Wiley produces a wide range of scholarly journals, books, reference works and digital products for academic, scientific, technical and medical markets, as well as professional development and higher education learning resources.

In its Research & Publishing segment, Wiley publishes thousands of peer-reviewed journals and maintains the Wiley Online Library, a leading platform for scientific and scholarly content.