Madison Avenue Partners LP Sells 23,366 Shares of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. $WLY

Madison Avenue Partners LP decreased its stake in shares of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:WLY) by 2.0% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 1,147,258 shares of the company’s stock after selling 23,366 shares during the quarter. John Wiley & Sons comprises 1.5% of Madison Avenue Partners LP’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 15th biggest position. Madison Avenue Partners LP’s holdings in John Wiley & Sons were worth $35,141,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of John Wiley & Sons by 519.8% during the 2nd quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 564 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,000 after buying an additional 473 shares during the period. Allworth Financial LP raised its stake in John Wiley & Sons by 1,595.7% in the 3rd quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 780 shares of the company’s stock worth $32,000 after purchasing an additional 734 shares in the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd raised its stake in John Wiley & Sons by 359.0% in the 4th quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd now owns 1,042 shares of the company’s stock worth $32,000 after purchasing an additional 815 shares in the last quarter. Empowered Funds LLC acquired a new stake in John Wiley & Sons in the 4th quarter worth about $37,000. Finally, Hantz Financial Services Inc. raised its stake in John Wiley & Sons by 2,378.6% in the 4th quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 1,388 shares of the company’s stock worth $43,000 after purchasing an additional 1,332 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 73.94% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting John Wiley & Sons

Here are the key news stories impacting John Wiley & Sons this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Wiley reported fiscal Q4 EPS of $1.67, slightly ahead of Wall Street expectations, while revenue was nearly in line and up 1.2% year over year. Earnings report and transcript
• Positive Sentiment: The company highlighted record margins, operating income growth, and cash-flow improvement for fiscal 2026, which suggests efficiency gains and stronger underlying earnings power. BusinessWire results
• Positive Sentiment: Management pointed to “research and AI momentum” and strategic progress, which may support the market’s view that Wiley can benefit from higher-demand areas of its business. Yahoo Finance article
• Neutral Sentiment: Wiley issued FY 2027 EPS guidance of 4.60 to 5.05, which brackets the consensus estimate and suggests steady but not dramatically above-expectation earnings growth. MarketBeat stock page
• Negative Sentiment: Revenue of $447.94 million slightly missed estimates, which could temper enthusiasm despite the earnings beat. Fiscal Q4 snapshot

John Wiley & Sons Trading Up 0.6%

NYSE:WLY opened at $45.35 on Thursday. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $41.66 and its 200-day moving average is $35.79. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.79, a quick ratio of 0.57 and a current ratio of 0.54. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has a 52 week low of $28.38 and a 52 week high of $45.88. The firm has a market cap of $2.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.72 and a beta of 0.80.

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, June 16th. The company reported $1.67 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.65 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $447.94 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $450.00 million. John Wiley & Sons had a net margin of 13.22% and a return on equity of 29.01%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.37 EPS. John Wiley & Sons has set its FY 2027 guidance at 4.600-5.050 EPS. Equities analysts expect that John Wiley & Sons, Inc. will post 4.75 earnings per share for the current year.

John Wiley & Sons Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, April 23rd. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 7th were paid a $0.355 dividend. This represents a $1.42 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.1%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, April 7th. John Wiley & Sons’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 33.57%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

WLY has been the subject of several analyst reports. Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of John Wiley & Sons from a “hold (c)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research note on Friday, May 29th. Zacks Research cut shares of John Wiley & Sons from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, May 15th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Hold rating, Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold”.

John Wiley & Sons Profile

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.