John Wiley & Sons, Inc. $WLY Shares Bought by Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC

Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC grew its holdings in shares of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:WLYFree Report) by 139.7% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 235,461 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 137,247 shares during the period. Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC owned 0.45% of John Wiley & Sons worth $7,212,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of John Wiley & Sons by 0.5% during the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 4,840,470 shares of the company’s stock worth $148,264,000 after purchasing an additional 25,174 shares during the period. Clarkston Capital Partners LLC raised its holdings in shares of John Wiley & Sons by 16.7% during the third quarter. Clarkston Capital Partners LLC now owns 2,207,824 shares of the company’s stock worth $89,351,000 after purchasing an additional 315,329 shares during the period. State Street Corp raised its holdings in shares of John Wiley & Sons by 2.1% during the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 1,714,430 shares of the company’s stock worth $76,515,000 after purchasing an additional 34,782 shares during the period. Schroder Investment Management Group raised its holdings in shares of John Wiley & Sons by 1.2% during the third quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group now owns 1,573,330 shares of the company’s stock worth $63,673,000 after purchasing an additional 19,067 shares during the period. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its holdings in shares of John Wiley & Sons by 3.7% during the third quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,557,800 shares of the company’s stock worth $63,041,000 after purchasing an additional 55,155 shares during the period. 73.94% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts have weighed in on the stock. Weiss Ratings raised shares of John Wiley & Sons from a “hold (c)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a report on Friday. Zacks Research cut shares of John Wiley & Sons from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, May 15th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Hold rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold”.

Read Our Latest Analysis on WLY

John Wiley & Sons Stock Up 3.5%

WLY stock opened at $43.53 on Tuesday. 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, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $28.38 and a fifty-two week high of $45.64. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $40.15 and its 200 day simple moving average is $35.04. The stock has a market cap of $2.23 billion, a PE ratio of 15.17 and a beta of 0.80.

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYGet Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, March 6th. The company reported $0.97 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates 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 analysts’ expectations of $391.00 million. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.84 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 1.3% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that John Wiley & Sons, Inc. will post 4.2 EPS for the current year.

John Wiley & Sons Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, April 23rd. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 7th were given a $0.355 dividend. This represents a $1.42 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.3%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, April 7th. John Wiley & Sons’s dividend payout ratio is currently 49.48%.

John Wiley & Sons Profile

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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.

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