John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.08 EPS

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) announced its earnings results on Thursday. The company reported $0.47 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.55 by ($0.08), Briefing.com reports. The company had revenue of $403.81 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $387.40 million. John Wiley & Sons had a positive return on equity of 18.82% and a negative net margin of 10.69%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 10.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.27 earnings per share. John Wiley & Sons updated its FY25 guidance to $3.25-3.60 EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to 3.250-3.600 EPS.

John Wiley & Sons Price Performance

WLY opened at $44.66 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 0.52, a quick ratio of 0.49 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.04. John Wiley & Sons has a twelve month low of $28.83 and a twelve month high of $49.20. The company has a fifty day moving average of $45.72 and a 200-day moving average of $40.21.

John Wiley & Sons Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 25th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, July 9th were paid a $0.3525 dividend. This is a positive change from John Wiley & Sons’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.35. This represents a $1.41 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.16%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, July 9th. John Wiley & Sons’s dividend payout ratio is currently -38.74%.

John Wiley & Sons Company Profile

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.