John Wiley & Sons Inc (NYSE:WLY) currently has a daily average trading volume of 435.02K but it saw 626804 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.42B USD, the company’s current market price of $44.86 came rising about 0.61 while comparing to the previous closing price of $44.59. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $53.96 and as low as $34.85.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of John Wiley & Sons Inc (WLY) gives us an average price of $43.36, while its current price level is -16.86% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 28.72% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $43.30 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $45.51. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.05% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.71%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 60.08 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Over the week, WLY’s stock price is moving 2.77% up while it is 12.94% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 2.63% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 14.82%.
Currently, John Wiley & Sons Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 44.89M with 9.61% of that held by the insiders while 94.61% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.51% and return on equity (ROE) at 5.77%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 60.44 while having a 11.81 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.95. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.53 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.42. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.56% on average.
