JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: WLY) is a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence founded in 1807 and headquartered in the United States. The company operates through its website at wiley.com and maintains investor relations at investors.wiley.com. From the company’s description.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. does
In the company’s own words
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: WLY) is a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence founded in 1807 and headquartered in the United States. The company operates through its website at wiley.com and maintains investor relations at investors.wiley.com.
Wiley operates as a predominantly digital company with approximately 85% of revenue generated from digital products and services. The company serves institutions, societies, corporations, researchers, students, instructors, and other professionals worldwide through two primary reportable segments: Research and Learning.
The Research segment, representing approximately 67% of consolidated revenue, includes Research Publishing and Research Solutions. Research Publishing operates over 1,900 scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals across physical sciences, engineering, health sciences, social sciences, humanities, and life sciences. The segment generates revenue through Journal Subscriptions, Transformational Agreements that blend read and publish access, Open Access publishing models, and licensing arrangements including content for artificial intelligence applications. Research Solutions provides content platforms and services for corporations and societies, including advertising, recruitment platforms, spectral database licenses, and the Atypon publishing platform serving approximately 2,000 publishers and societies.
The Learning segment comprises approximately 33% of consolidated revenue and includes Academic and Professional divisions. Academic offerings include print and digital textbooks, digital courseware platforms such as WileyPLUS and zyBooks, and assessment services. Professional provides business and technology books under brands including Dummies, Sybex, and The Jon Gordon Companies, along with soft-skills training solutions and assessment tools such as Everything DiSC and Leadership Practices Inventory.
Wiley employs approximately 4,500 colleagues worldwide with primary operations in the United States and United Kingdom, supplemented by offices in Germany, India, and Jordan. Approximately 49% of consolidated revenue derives from outside the United States. The company maintains approximately 48% recurring revenue from contractually obligated or highly certain sources. Wiley operates one global warehousing and distribution facility in the UK and has outsourced US-based book distribution operations to Cengage Learning.
Company details
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Publishing
- Headquarters
- HOBOKEN, NJ
- Fiscal year end
- April
- CIK
- 107140
- SIC
- 2731
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2014–2026 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
By share class
| Class | Held by funds | Funds | Shares out |
|---|---|---|---|
| WLYClass A Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share | 49.5% | 292 | 41.9M |
| WLYBClass B Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share | 0.3% | 4 | 8.8M |
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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