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Financial-condition grades for SEC filers
Company Report · as of Oct 9, 2026
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| John Wiley & Sons, Inc.WLY · consumer nondurables | |
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| Grade |  Eweakest fifth of 124 graded peers; percentile 89.8, sampling error 3.8 points; lower is stronger |
| Rank | 111 of 124 |
| Profitability | C/Dpercentile 62.0 |
| Solvency | C/Dpercentile 57.6 |
| Growth and financing | D/Epercentile 76.9 |
| Reliability | 0.91 AUCfailure model, filers with $591M to $2.67B assets; 95% interval 0.88 to 0.94; 160 events, 2020 to 2025 |
| Peer failure rate | 1.01% a yearItem 1.03 bankruptcies, same asset band, 2012 to 2025 |
| Size band | $591M to $2.67B assetstotal assets $2.6B[1] |
| Standard universe | insiderevenue above $1M and assets above $10M[1-2] |
| Warnings | none activenot computable: dilution, distress |
| Inputs computable | 9 of 14 |
| Graded from | filings received through Jun 24, 2026107 days before the rescan; every figure keyed to the SEC receipt date |
| Last close | $49.392026-10-08; market equity $0; iex feed |
| Price used in grade | None |
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Percentile at every rescan on file, Jan 21, 2012 to Oct 9, 2026; stronger toward the top. Hover for the date. Open this report as it stood on | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Each date opens the report as it stood on that rescan. |
Business, in the company's words. Opening of Item 1 of the 10-K received Jun 24, 2026; the document on sec.gov.
, which could adversely impact our consolidated financial position and results of operations. We may not be able to adequately drive publishing output and journal expansion to meet the global demand for peer-reviewed research, nor expand related licensing, platform, and service offerings for institutions, corporations, and societies. Technological developments in AI could disrupt the markets in which we operate and subject us to increased competition, cannibalization, legal and regulatory risks, and compliance costs.
The Fourteen Inputs [top]
Lower percentile is stronger. Source numbers open the SEC filing; a range that spans filings opens the sources table.
| Input | Percentile, 0 to 100 | Value | Source | Peer median | Percentile | Peers | Period end |
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| Profitability, sleeve percentile 62.0 | |||||||
| Gross profitability | 48.0% | [1-3] | 29.8% | 28.6 | 146 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Return on invested capital | not computable | 5.6% | |||||
| pretax income must exceed the validity floor and imply a 0%-100% tax rate | |||||||
| Accruals ratio | (1.5%) | [1,4-6] | (5.0%) | 72.7 | 153 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Gross margin stability, five years | 3.7 pts | [2-3,7-14] | 1.9 pts | 84.8 | 116 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Solvency, sleeve percentile 57.6 | |||||||
| Twelve-month failure probability | not computable | 0.03% | |||||
| firm-wide XBRL shares cannot be assigned to one ticker class | |||||||
| Altman Z double-prime | 2.51 | [1,15-20] | 3.11 | 50.8 | 122 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 1.45x | [18,21-23] | 2.54x | 28.7 | 55 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Interest coverage | not computable | 2.51x | |||||
| latest aligned inputs end 2024-04-30; latest annual assets end 2026-04-30 | |||||||
| Current ratio | 0.54x | [15-16] | 1.81x | 93.3 | 157 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Growth and financing, sleeve percentile 76.9 | |||||||
| Revenue growth, three-year compound | (6.0%) | [2,7,9,11] | 0.2% | 80.7 | 133 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Free cash flow growth, three-year compound | 2.2% | [5,24-30] | 14.9% | 73.1 | 66 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Reinvestment rate | not computable | 10.7% | |||||
| pretax income must exceed the validity floor and imply a 0%-100% tax rate | |||||||
| Asset growth, three years | (5.9%) | [1,6,31-32] | 0.5% | 77.1 | 134 | 2026-04-30 | |
| Net share issuance, one year | not computable | 0.05% | |||||
| firm-wide XBRL shares cannot be assigned to one ticker class | |||||||
Gross profitability. Revenue less cost of goods sold, over total assets.
Accruals ratio. Net income less operating cash flow, over average assets; lower is stronger.
Gross margin stability, five years. Standard deviation of gross margin; lower is stronger.
Twelve-month failure probability. CHS model; lower is stronger.
Net debt to EBITDA. Lower is stronger.
Net share issuance, one year. Split-adjusted; lower is stronger.
Sleeves are equal-weighted; within a sleeve each computable input carries equal weight. Composite 0.337; sampling error 3.8 percentile points on 124 peers.
Among 124 Peers [top]
Composite score of every graded peer, smoothed. Vertical rules are the letter band edges at the 20th, 40th, 60th and 80th percentiles. Small dots are the six largest peers by market equity.
| Rank | Company | Percentile | Letter | Warnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | Molson Coors Beverage Co. (TAP) Molson Coors Beverage Co. (TAP) Eweakest fifth; percentile 85.8 NYSE · Malt Beverages last close $37.92 No active warnings; 9 of 14 inputs | 85.8 | E | |
| 107 | Molson Coors Beverage Co. (TAP-A) Molson Coors Beverage Co. (TAP-A) Eweakest fifth; percentile 85.8 NYSE · Malt Beverages last close $40.31 No active warnings; 9 of 14 inputs | 85.8 | E | |
| 108 | Tyson Foods, Inc. (TSN) Tyson Foods, Inc. (TSN) Eweakest fifth; percentile 87.0 NYSE · Poultry Slaughtering and Processing last close $52.34 No active warnings; 10 of 14 inputs | 87.0 | E | |
| 109 | USA Today Co., Inc. (TDAY) USA Today Co., Inc. (TDAY) Eweakest fifth; percentile 87.8 NYSE · Newspapers: Publishing or Publishing & Printing market equity $1.0B; last close $6.98 No active warnings; 7 of 14 inputs | 87.8 | E | |
| 110 | Utz Brands, Inc. (UTZ) Utz Brands, Inc. (UTZ) Eweakest fifth; percentile 88.6 NYSE · Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products market equity $864.2M; last close $14.31 No active warnings; 9 of 14 inputs | 88.6 | E | |
| 111 | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY) Eweakest fifth; percentile 89.8 NYSE · Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing last close $49.39 No active warnings; 9 of 14 inputs | 89.8 | E | |
| 112 | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLYB) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLYB) Eweakest fifth; percentile 89.8 NYSE · Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing last close $49.70 No active warnings; 9 of 14 inputs | 89.8 | E | |
| 113 | Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. (RMCF) Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. (RMCF) Eweakest fifth; percentile 91.1 Nasdaq · Sugar & Confectionery Products market equity $9.9M; last close $1.03 Warnings: short runway, late filer, fortress balance sheet; 9 of 14 inputs | 91.1 | E | short runway, late filer, fortress balance sheet |
| 114 | Beyond Meat, Inc. (BYND) Beyond Meat, Inc. (BYND) Eweakest fifth; percentile 91.9 Nasdaq · Food and Kindred Products market equity $132.9M; last close $7.73 Warnings: dilution, late filer; 8 of 14 inputs | 91.9 | E | dilution, late filer |
| 115 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) Eweakest fifth; percentile 92.7 NYSE · Fats & Oils market equity $39.7B; last close $82.45 Warnings: late filer; 8 of 14 inputs | 92.7 | E | late filer |
| 116 | Rythm, Inc. (RYM) Rythm, Inc. (RYM) Eweakest fifth; percentile 93.5 Nasdaq · Agricultural Services market equity $42.5M; last close $19.52 No active warnings; 8 of 14 inputs | 93.5 | E |
| Peer policy | Letter | Percentile | Peers |
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| all graded filers, equal sleeves | E | 83.9 | 2204 |
| sector peers, equal sleeves (the grade) | E | 89.8 | 124 |
| same exchange, equal sleeves | E | 88.0 | 984 |
| sector peers, equal inputs | E | 88.2 | 124 |
Each letter is one fifth of the 124 graded peers, about 24 companies. A boundary letter (A/B, B/C, C/D, D/E) marks a percentile within one sampling error of a band edge.
What the Price Implies [top]
Market measures at the 2026-10-08 close. None enters the grade. Percentile among graded peers with the same measure.
| Measure | Value | Peer median | Percentile | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve-month price change, skipping the latest month | 34.3% | (0.2%) | 82 | hotter than 82 of 100 peers |
| Distance from 52-week high | (11.3%) | (24.8%) | 81 | closer to its high than 81 of 100 peers |
| EBIT to enterprise value | not computable | 4.1% | required accounting or market input is missing | |
| Free cash flow yield | not computable | 4.8% | required accounting or market input is missing | |
| Book value to price | not computable | 0.57 | required accounting or market input is missing | |
| Sales to price | not computable | 1.20 | required accounting or market input is missing | |
| Composite equity issuance, five years | not computable | (16.3%) | required accounting or market input is missing | |
| Relative strength against the sector, log excess return | 0.20 | (0.10) | 82 | ahead of 82 of 100 peers |
Inputs: EBIT $276.9M; free cash flow $209.4M; book equity $797.0M; sales $1.7B; debt $1.3B; cash $106.4M[33].
Diagnostics [top]
Diagnostics do not feed the grade.
| Piotroski F-score: None of 9, period end 2026-04-30 | ||
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| Return on assets above zero | 8.2% | ✓ pass[4,6] |
| Operating cash flow above zero | $260.5M | ✓ pass[5] |
| Return on assets improved | 5.1 pts | ✓ pass[4,6,31,34] |
| Operating cash flow exceeds net income | $38.9M | ✓ pass[4-5] |
| Long-term leverage fell | (3.7 pts) | ✓ pass[1,6,31,35-36] |
| Current ratio improved | 0.3 pts | ✓ pass[15-16,37-38] |
| No new shares issued | n/a | |
| Gross margin improved | (0.0 pts) | ✗ fail[2-3,7-8] |
| Asset turnover improved | 0.7 pts | ✓ pass[2,6-7,31] |
| Cash, filings, liquidity | |
|---|---|
| Cash and equivalents | $106.4M[39] |
| Operating cash flow, four quarters | $290.3M[5,39-43] |
| Months of runway | not finite |
| trailing operating cash flow is nonnegative, so runway is not finite | |
| Late filings, two years | 0 |
| NT 10-K or NT 10-Q | |
| Days since last periodic filing | 35 |
| 10-Q received Sep 4, 2026 | |
| Median daily dollar volume | $22.2M |
| 63 sessions | |
| Days since newest grade input | 107 |
Downloads [top]
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Sources [top]
Every citation on this page. Filing opens the SEC index page for that submission; viewer opens the SEC interactive data for the same filing; series opens the SEC XBRL API record for that tag and company.
| # | Concept | XBRL tag | Value | Period end | Received | Form | Links |
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| 1 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $2.6B | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 2 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $1.7B | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 3 | cost of revenue | us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold | $431.5M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 4 | net income | us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss | $221.6M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 5 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $260.5M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 6 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $2.7B | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 7 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $1.7B | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 8 | cost of revenue | us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold | $431.4M | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 9 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $1.9B | 2024-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 10 | cost of revenue | us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold | $579.7M | 2024-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 11 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $2.0B | 2023-04-30 | 2025-06-25 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 12 | cost of revenue | us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold | $692.5M | 2023-04-30 | 2025-06-25 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 13 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $2.1B | 2022-04-30 | 2024-06-26 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 14 | cost of revenue | us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold | $700.7M | 2022-04-30 | 2024-06-26 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 15 | current assets | us-gaap:AssetsCurrent | $419.7M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 16 | current liabilities | us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent | $778.9M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 17 | retained earnings | us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit | $1.7B | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 18 | operating income | us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss | $276.9M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 19 | book equity | us-gaap:StockholdersEquity | $848.2M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 20 | liabilities | us-gaap:Liabilities | $1.7B | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 21 | total debt | us-gaap:LongTermDebt | $683.4M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 22 | cash | us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue | $75.6M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 23 | depreciation amortization | us-gaap:DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization | $143.5M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 24 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $51.2M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 25 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $202.6M | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 26 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $61.5M | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 27 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $207.6M | 2024-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 28 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $76.1M | 2024-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 29 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $277.1M | 2023-04-30 | 2025-06-25 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 30 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $81.2M | 2023-04-30 | 2025-06-25 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 31 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $2.7B | 2024-04-30 | 2025-06-25 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 32 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $3.1B | 2023-04-30 | 2024-06-26 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 33 | shares outstanding | dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding | 60,884,591 | 2011-05-31 | 2011-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 34 | net income | us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss | $84.2M | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 35 | long term debt | us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent | $670.9M | 2026-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 36 | long term debt | us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent | $789.4M | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 37 | current assets | us-gaap:AssetsCurrent | $439.9M | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 38 | current liabilities | us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent | $820.9M | 2025-04-30 | 2026-06-24 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 39 | cash | us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue | $106.4M | 2026-07-31 | 2026-09-04 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 40 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | -$55.3M | 2026-07-31 | 2026-09-04 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 41 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $103.3M | 2026-01-31 | 2026-03-06 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 42 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | -$76.5M | 2025-10-31 | 2025-12-05 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 43 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | -$85.0M | 2025-07-31 | 2026-09-04 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
Limitations [top]
Grade boundary. Percentile 89.8 is 9.8 points from the nearest band edge; sampling error is 3.8 points.
Peer group. Sector assignment from four-digit SIC codes, hand-tuned and published. The grade under three alternative peer policies is tabled above.
Size. Within a sector the letter tracks size. Among graded filers in the smallest asset band, 72% grade E and 0% grade A; in the largest, 13% grade E and 21% grade A. Universe as of Oct 9, 2026.
Failure model. filings 2012-01-01 to 2019-12-31 fit, filings 2020-01-01 to 2025-12-31 test; status post hoc pending confirmation. pre-registered on 2026 filings once their 12-month outcome windows close; supported if the paired per-quintile gain over the pooled model has a lower bound above 0.05.
Input validity. Revenue or total assets at or below $100,000 sets the degenerate-inputs flag. An input whose denominator is at or below $100,000 is left not computable rather than ranked.
Returns. No input on this page has a post-2015 confidence interval on returns that excludes zero. The grade ranks reported financial condition and is not a return forecast.
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